Humanitrack

01/06/2022

💻Desk research volunteering to fight Cancer💥

3 desk researchers needed, Aug+Sep, 8 hrs/week

Catalog lung and breast cancer screening and diagnostics solutions so everyone can freely track and accelerate progress!

SUND Hub , Science Innovation Hub , Biomedical Engineering at DTU, DTU Skylab, Syddansk Universitet – University of Southern Denmark, Aarhus Universitet, Lund University

We need bright minds like yours to use desk research to create Humanitrack’s open-source databases, overviews, and roadmaps of Cancer Screening & Diagnostics solutions and research. This helps ali ...

11/04/2022

We are looking for a new UX Lead to join our team!🎉

💚Are you someone who wants to make a difference in the world by leading the Figma re-design and usability testing of our impactful platform http://humanitrack.org? Do you have experience in UX, are motivated to drive change, and have project management skills? Find the job posting here: https://thehub.io/jobs/624ed98d7f91b0a1ff3f39d3

💚Do you know someone who would be perfect for this role? Tag them below and help us find each other!

15/02/2022

A celebration post and virtual 🎂 are the least important parts of us turning 4.

What counts are the reflections and learnings we take on our previous year as well as the adjustments we will apply to improve the progress on our mission.

This year is all about:
🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️Growing our internal team of volunteers and interns
💻🔍Redesigning and refining our platform via usability testing
🥼📊Establishing procedures, content, and internal communities for our first Quests

Our goal by our next birthday is to be ready for a public relaunch of http://humanitrack.org with easy to perform digital volunteering actions to keep the Quest databases and roadmaps updated and their student and researcher communities empowered, aligned, and inspired.

Thank you to all of our volunteers, interns, and community supporters for sticking with us for the first 4 years and let’s keep humanity’s tech on track to a better future! 💚

14/10/2021

The world’s first mass vaccination program against malaria, announced this week, is set to prevent millions of children from catching malaria and thousands dying from this debilitating disease.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended widespread use of the RTS,S/AS01 (Mosquirix) vaccine in young children who are most at risk of malaria in Africa.
A study, published in the journal PLOS Medicine, estimated that if the vaccine rolled out to countries with the most malaria cases, it could prevent 5.4 million cases and 23,000 deaths in children under 5 every year.
Read about the key questions answered here👉https://bit.ly/2YLwbeP

12/10/2021

A new cancer treatment can wipe out tumours in terminally ill head and neck cancer patients, scientists have discovered.⚕️
In a landmark trial, a cocktail of immunotherapy medications harnessed patients’ immune systems to kill their own cancer cells and prompted “a positive trend in survival”, according to researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London, and the Royal Marsden NHS foundation trust.
Scientists found the combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab medications led to a reduction in the size of tumours in terminally ill head and neck cancer patients. In some, their cancer disappeared altogether, with doctors stunned to find no detectable sign of disease.
Not only does the combination of drugs cause tumours to vanish in some terminally ill patients, the immunotherapy treatment triggered far fewer side-effects than chemotherapy.
Read the full article about the treatment here👉https://bit.ly/3Dx8iXh

08/10/2021

Happy Friday!🥳
As October rolls around, we are getting ready for spooky season!🦇
Here’s some of our favorite Halloween movies to help you get in the spooky spirit during the cozy evenings inside.👻

Share your favorites with us in the comments!!🎃

06/10/2021

You might recognize Dr. Mayim Bialik from her role in The Big Bang Theory as Amy. What less people know is that Bialik is a fully qualified neuroscientist, with a doctorate similar to Amy's in the show!

Her love for science resonates with all of us here at and reminds us about the wonders of working in 💚

04/10/2021

We are starting the week with some amazing news!🥳
👁️Seven patients with a rare eye disease volunteered to let doctors modify their DNA by injecting the revolutionary gene-editing tool CRISPR directly into cells that are still in their bodies.
This is the first time researchers worked with CRISPR this way. Earlier experiments had removed cells from patients' bodies, edited them in the lab and then infused the modified cells back into the patients.🧬
On Wednesday, researchers revealed the first evidence that the approach appears to be working — improving vision for at least some patients with the condition, known as Leber congenital amaurosis, or LCA, a severe form of vision impairment.
Pennesi cautioned that more patients need to be treated and followed longer to confirm the approach is safe and to determine just how much it can help patients. But the current results are so promising that the researchers have gotten the go-ahead to move on to the next group of patients.
Read the whole article here👉https://n.pr/2ZLeKv8

30/09/2021

Pfizer has started testing its potential COVID-19 treatment as a preventive medicine aimed at warding off the virus if a close contact gets it.💊
Pfizer said it is launching a mid-to-late-stage clinical trial to test whether the antiviral drug, PF-07321332, can prevent Covid-19 infection in some 2,660 healthy adults living in the same house as someone with a confirmed symptomatic infection.
The trial will test the safety and efficacy of the pill with ritonavir, another antiviral widely used to treat HIV. One third of patients in the trial will receive a placebo, while the remainder will receive a dose of the drug twice a day for either five or 10 days.
Read more about the new pill here👉https://bit.ly/3F6pGUw

28/09/2021

September has been a big month for neurology!🧠
In a new study from Curtin University, researchers discovered a likely cause of Alzheimer’s disease.
They identified that a probable cause of Alzheimer’s disease was the leakage from the blood into the brain of fat-carrying particles transporting toxic proteins. The researchers say they have identified the probable ‘blood-to-brain pathway’ that can lead to Alzheimer’s disease, the most prevalent form of dementia globally.
Read the whole article here 👉https://bit.ly/3mb6iNA

24/09/2021

The NHS has launched the world’s largest trial of a potentially game changing blood test that aims to detect more than 50 types of cancer before symptoms appear.
More than 𝟭𝟬𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 volunteers are being sought to provide blood samples at mobile test clinics in regions across England from Monday to assess how well the test works in the health service.
The 𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘪 𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵, which is already available in the US, can find cancers that are difficult to spot early on by picking up fragments of DNA that are shed from tumours into the bloodstream. Among them are cancers of the lung, bowel, pancreas, throat, head and neck.
The NHS is writing to 140,000 people aged 50 to 77 from different ethnic backgrounds and inviting them to take part in the trial. Participants, who must not have had a cancer diagnosis in the past three years, will be asked to give a first blood sample at a mobile test clinic, and further samples one and two years later.
Read the whole article here 👉https://bit.ly/3zB3WvV

22/09/2021

A team of investigators from Tel Aviv University (TAU) has succeeded in restoring brain trauma by hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). This is the first time that non-drug therapy has been proven effective in preventing the core biological processes responsible for the development of Alzheimer’s disease.🧠
Hyperbaric medicine is a form of therapy that requires patients to be kept in special chambers in which the atmospheric pressure is much higher than that normally experienced at sea level. In addition, they breathe air composed of 100% oxygen.
Professor Efrati sums up the team’s findings: “By treating the root problem that causes cognitive deterioration with age, we are in fact mapping out the way to prevention. It is likely that hyperbaric medicine can potentially provide the opportunity for living with good brain function without relating to chronological age. The idea is to commence therapy before the onset of clinical symptoms of dementia and before deterioration and loss of extensive brain tissue. This is the stage at which blood vessels become occluded and the blood flow and the oxygen supply to the brain are diminished — a phenomenon that can already take place at a relatively early age.”
Read the whole article here 👉https://bit.ly/3hVwTg8