IBM to investigate role of microbiome in autoimmune disorders
23 August 2017
A project launched by tech firm IBM plans to analyse millions of bacterial genes, in an effort to understand what causes type 1 diabetes and Crohn's disease
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Newborn babies already have a sense of how numbers work
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Do you think of smaller numbers being on the left of larger ones? Even two-day-old babies may think this way, suggesting we’re born with mental number lines
Scanning your brain can predict what will happen in the future
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Can neuroforecasting predict the next election result or market crash? Analysing activity in a part of our brain can predict things that haven’t happened yet
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Stem cell technique could reverse a major type of infertility
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Men with extra sex chromosomes can have difficulty producing fertile sperm. Now researchers have got around this in mice by making stem cells from their skin
Vitamin C helps genes to kill off cells that would cause cancer
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Many blood cancers are caused by mutations in the protective TET2 gene, but vitamin C may enhance drug treatments by helping to tell out-of-control cells to stop dividing
Speedy test for Lyme disease could help us treat it in time
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Lyme disease needs to be treated quickly, but it can be hard to tell it apart from other conditions. Now a test could help diagnose the infection
Tiny robots crawl through mouse's stomach to heal ulcers
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Bacterial infections in mice have been cleared up by bubble-propelled micromotors that swim through the stomach and release antibiotic payloads - and then dissolve in stomach acid
