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Australia, the ‘allergy capital of the world,’ has launched a world-first free nationwide treatment program for children with peanut allergies. The goal is to safely build tolerance to the troublesome nut so that kids don’t need to worry about the poss… Continue reading World-first national peanut allergy treatment gets under way
Researchers have developed an alternative way of desensitizing very young peanut-allergic children to the food. Under-the-tongue immunotherapy was found to be safer and easier to administer than the current treatment and may provide another method of c… Continue reading Under-the-tongue immunotherapy a treatment for childhood peanut allergy
When [Mike] fired up his PCjr webserver back in March, he probably wasn’t expecting it to go viral. 2640 hours later, here we are! Not only has his machine run …read more Continue reading PCjr WebServer hits 2500 Hours Uptime
Beer and peanuts have been a match made in heaven for so long it’s hard to pinpoint just when the holy union came about. It was made commercially official in the US in 1937, with the rather ingenious branding of Beer Nuts, and for almost as long scient… Continue reading The reason peanuts ‘dance’ in beer (we know you want to know)
Peanut and tree nut allergies affect around three million Americans, yet there’s only one approved treatment and it only tackles its severity. And despite the amount of research behind finding a way to counter, or cure, this often deadly condition, the… Continue reading First-of-its-kind mRNA treatment could wipe out a peanut allergy
Peanut allergies can be very serious, potentially resulting in life-threatening anaphylaxis. There could be new hope for eliminating such allergies, however, thanks to the use of peanut-packin’ microneedles.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTag… Continue reading Microneedles may treat peanut allergies better than anything else
For around the past decade, a research group led by the Australia’s Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) has been investigating treatments for peanut allergies in children, and study by study, they are making some exciting progress. The latest … Continue reading Combination peanut allergy treatment leads to fewer side effects
Candy-sorting robots are in plentiful supplies on these pages, and with good reason — they’re a great test of the complete suite of hacker tools, from electronics to machine vision to mechatronics. So we see lots of sorters for Skittles, jelly beans, and occasionally even Reese’s Pieces, but it always …read more
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Hortense Dodo has pioneered a process for engineering safer peanuts that can prevent deadly reactions. Continue reading This Food Scientist Wants to Save Lives With a Hypoallergenic Peanut