New research conducted at the Pacific Brain Health Center in Santa Monica, California, has found that the VR-enabled workouts can improve cognitive abilities in seniors and prevent dementia. The data shows that physical activity combined with psychologically mentally-stimulating visual elements provides higher cognitive benefits than exercise alone. The early findings...
A team of researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales in Australia has given a small flock of sheep exceptionally sharp eyesight via bionic eyes surgically implanted behind their retinas. Dubbed Phoenix 99, the device works by wirelessly relaying a camera feed from a...
Doctors have successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig heart into a human for the first time in history. The University of Maryland Medical Center announced that that transplant was successful and that the 57-year-old patient, David Bennet, was doing well three days later. Bennet had terminal heart disease and had...
In a breakthrough, a group of scientists in India has developed a thermostable version of insulin, which doesn’t need to be refrigerated. Insulin typically needs to be stored at around 36-46°F (2–8°C). The new thermostable insulin can survive temperatures of up to 149°F (65°C)...
Neuroscientists from Cambridge University are testing an AI-based system that can diagnose dementia in just one day and predict whether dementia patients will require immediate treatment or not. The system developed by Prof. Zoe Kourtzi compares brain scans of patients worried that they might have dementia with those of thousands...
Synchron, a company that develops implantable brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), has received permission from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct clinical trials with human patients putting the company ahead of competitors like Elon Musk’s Neuralink. The company plans to start its early feasibility study of its...
