Deaf Could Learn to Speak
New finding show that implants for babies can enable them to learn to speak almost as well as hearing babies. The implant, which was tried on cats, bypasses the defective hair cells in the ear and stimulates neurons directly, enabling feedback which allows the learning process.
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Australian researchers found a way to make mosquitoes die younger ‘naturally’, and thus spreading fewer diseases. The way to achieve it is by infecting the mosquitoes with a bacterium named Wolbachia causing them to shorter their live span by half.
