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James McCarthy BBC News, West of England Clara Bullock BBC News, Somerset Supplied by family Tom hopes a cure or life-changing therapies can be found for his son Jenson A father whose son has been diagnosed with a condition only 300 people have in the world has launched a mission to find a “cure or life-changing therapy”. Within days of …

In world 1st bid to cure paralysis, Israeli team gears up to implant innovative spinal cord  The Times of Israel Israel to carry out world’s first spinal cord transplant  The Jerusalem Post Israel to Perform World’s First Human Spinal Cord Implant  VINnews The first human spinal cord repair using the patient own cells  EurekAlert! First Spinal Cord Transplant to Take Place in Israel  IFCJ Source …

A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells. For the first time in humans, these islet cells have been genetically edited so they wouldn’t be rejected by the patient, removing the need for immunosuppressant drugs. Type 1 diabetes usually begins when the immune system mistakenly attacks the islet cells …

A University of Colorado Denver engineer is on the cusp of giving scientists a new tool that can help them turn sci-fi into reality. Imagine a safe gamma ray laser that could eradicate cancer cells without damaging healthy tissue. Or a tool that could help determine if Stephen Hawking’s multiverse theory is real by revealing the fabric underlying the universe. …

An ancient hack could finally help relive the dreadful symptoms of snoring, a new study has revealed. The practice of blowing through a conch shell, also known as shankh blowing, could assist patients struggling with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), which blocks the airways and can lead to snoring. Affecting an estimated eight million people across the UK, common symptoms of …

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers? Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pediatrician and immunologist began working with scientists in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, with the aim of tracking several hundred children who had acquired HIV from their …

There’s no pill or instant fix for jet lag. But with more than 20 hours of flight time from New York to Australia on my horizon, I was eager to unearth any solution in a bid to make the most of my 10-day trip.  Friends had suggested everything from the prescription anti-anxiety drug Xanax (alprazolam) to melatonin supplements to pack …

Scientists have discovered that building muscle could serve as a natural alternative to Viagra. A team of researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, went about exploring the link between muscle quality and erectile dysfunction (ED), suffered by more than 18million men in the US over the age of 20. ED includes the inability to get an erection or the …

It was night sweats, wild mood swings, and, ironically, significant hair loss that first sent Kate, 54, a New York–based hairstylist, to her doctor in her late 40s looking for relief; she was prescribed an estrogen patch. “It made me feel like myself again,” says Kate, whose name has been changed to protect her privacy. “I was sleeping, I wasn’t …

Tom Zeller Jr has done just about anything to get rid of his headaches.  He’s chugged 60 glasses of water in a day, inhaled oxygen straight from the tank and even tripped on magic mushrooms on top of the western Montana mountains.  The 56–year–old science journalist was diagnosed about three decades ago with cluster headaches, debilitating headaches that strike randomly …