Scientists are starting to classify ageing as a disease

Scientists are starting to classify ageing as a disease

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By treating age as a disease, not as an inevitable condition, it forces researchers to look at the problem differently and come up with new, unexpected solutions   Many diseases come with old age but the idea of pathologizing ageing itself has been gaining attention...

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New breakthrough will give prosthetic limbs a human sense of touch

New breakthrough will give prosthetic limbs a human sense of touch

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Many people take the sense of touch for granted but for those people with neurodegenerative disorders, or who have prosthetic limbs, it’s the sense they miss the most, now a new breakthrough could give them, as well as future robots, that sense of touch back....

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