The result is based on a survey of more than 500 Swedish women s eating habits and the prevalence of allergies in their children at one year of age. We have found that mothers of healthy one-year-olds consumed more cow s milk during breastfeeding than mothers of allergic one-year-olds. Though the association is clear, we do not claim that drinking cow s milk would be a general cure for food allergies, says Mia Stråvik, doctoral student in the Division of Food Science at Chalmers University of Technology, and first author of the study.
There are many factors behind the risk of food allergy, not least genetic predisposition. Yet, as Mia Stråvik explains, Diet is a factor where parents themselves can have direct influence. It is quite common nowadays for young women to avoid drinking milk, due in part to prevailing trends and concerns, some of which are linked to myths about diet.
Sensory Perceptions may Not be Remapped by Prosthetics Limbs by Karishma Abhishek on December 30, 2020 at 9:11 AM
Growing advent of futuristic development of realistic prosthetic/ robotic devices has shown that even after a full year, the bionic touch did not remap the brain in people whose amputated limbs were replaced with prosthetic limbs. The location of the touch sensors on the prosthetic devices and the participants subjective sensation revealed no match, as per the neuroscientists at the University of Chicago and Chalmers University of Technology, published in the journal Cell Reports. The limitation of the nervous system to adapt to different sensory input attributes to the stability of its touch sensations. Development of prosthetic limbs requires qualities of not only being able to be operated with a user s own neural activity, but can to accurately and precisely receive and relay sensory information to the user.
New study highlights future challenges for developing realistic prosthetic devices
Advances in neuroscience and engineering have generated great hope for Luke Skywalker-like prosthetics: robotic devices that are almost indistinguishable from a human limb. Key to solving this challenge is designing devices that not only can be operated with a user’s own neural activity, but can also accurately and precisely receive and relay sensory information to the user.
A new study by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago and Chalmers University of Technology, published Dec. 22 in the journal
Cell Reports, highlights just how difficult this may prove to be. In a cohort of three subjects whose amputated limbs had been replaced with neuromusculoskeletal prosthetic limbs, the investigators found that even after a full year of using the devices, the participant’s subjective sensation never shifted to match the location of the touch sensors on their prosthetic devi
IMAGE: PPPL physicist Gerrit Kramer with conceptual image of SPARC fusion reactor. view more
Credit: Collage and Kramer photo by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications. SPARC image courtesy of Commonwealth Fusion Systems.
The U.S. Department of Energy s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is collaborating with private industry on cutting-edge fusion research aimed at achieving commercial fusion energy. This work, enabled through a public-private DOE grant program, supports efforts to develop high-performance fusion grade plasmas. In one such project PPPL is working in coordination with MIT s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) and Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a start-up spun out of MIT that is developing a tokamak fusion device called SPARC.
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