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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
How Joy Milne’s realization that her husband had started smelling funny changed the landscape of Parkinson’s research.
Editor's note: Do you know that the human body consists of tens of trillions of human and microbial cells? These cells make numerous chemical compounds. Some of these are compounds that can be volatilized to release distinct odours. Ever wonder how you recognize someone you know well just by their smell? You, me and every other person on this planet has a distinctive odour fingerprint, a combination of over a thousand volatile organic compounds continuously released. This gives a unique smell to exhaled breath, skin secretions found in sweat and sebum, and urine. This odour can change with health, diet, medication and smoking, but it doesn’t just wash off with bathing. Now, imagine having a rare superpower that no one knows about, which allows you to smell signs of a serious disease in someone you loved dearly before doctors can detect it. Imagine standing up in the middle of a scientific conference and asking a leading expert on the disease why no one had picked up on its scent, leaving the expert flabbergasted. One woman from Scotland didn’t need to imagine this …
How Joy Milne’s realization that her husband had started smelling funny changed the landscape of Parkinson’s research.
Editor's note: Do you know that the human body consists of tens of trillions of human and microbial cells? These cells make numerous chemical compounds. Some of these are compounds that can be volatilized to release distinct odours. Ever wonder how you recognize someone you know well just by their smell? You, me and every other person on this planet has a distinctive odour fingerprint, a combination of over a thousand volatile organic compounds continuously released. This gives a unique smell to exhaled breath, skin secretions found in sweat and sebum, and urine. This odour can change with health, diet, medication and smoking, but it doesn’t just wash off with bathing. Now, imagine having a rare superpower that no one knows about, which allows you to smell signs of a serious disease in someone you loved dearly before doctors can detect it. Imagine standing up in the middle of a scientific conference and asking a leading expert on the disease why no one had picked up on its scent, leaving the expert flabbergasted. One woman from Scotland didn’t need to imagine this …
The screenless fitness band has turned into a Gulf-wide phenomenon—powered by regional capital, health culture and a tech-savvy consumer base.
Healthcare is one of the fastest growing sectors. For young professionals, the sector offers a spectrum of opportunities beyond medicine, spanning hospital operations, data analytics, corporate strategy, and digital health.
India has rolled back rules that require thermal power plants to install equipment to cut sulphur dioxide emissions, marking yet another failure in the fight against air pollution.
The screenless fitness band has turned into a Gulf-wide phenomenon—powered by regional capital, health culture and a tech-savvy consumer base.
Healthcare is one of the fastest growing sectors. For young professionals, the sector offers a spectrum of opportunities beyond medicine, spanning hospital operations, data analytics, corporate strategy, and digital health.
India has rolled back rules that require thermal power plants to install equipment to cut sulphur dioxide emissions, marking yet another failure in the fight against air pollution.
