Scientists at Edinburgh University have for the first time been able to pinpoint the nerves that die leading to the progression of Multiple Sclerosis PATIENTS with an incurable condition affecting one in 500 Scots have been offered hope by a world-first trial that could pave the way for treatments to halt its progression. Scientists have been able to pinpoint the individual nerves that die leading to Multiple Sclerosis symptoms worsening, such as reduced mobility and pain. There are two types of nerves; excitatory, which simulate the body to do things, and inhibitory, which dampen down a response. It has been previously thought progression of MS was due to both suffering irreparable damage.
But what Faculty lies behind the plans for adoption and economic expansion?
Lindsay Clark Fri 8 Jan 2021 // 15:59 UTC Share
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The UK s AI Council could not have picked a worse week to launch its roadmap. As the world s media was understandably obsessing with the US panto-cum-insurrection season, who would highlight its attempt to put this island nation, newly unshackled from the EU, on a path to a 10 per cent GDP boost from AI by 2030?
Observers might have hoisted a few red flags when they looked at who is behind the body, charged with providing independent input to the UK s AI strategy, expected to come from the Office for Artificial Intelligence (a joint unit between the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport).
How should Boko Haram be dealt with? Al Jazeera English UP NEXT
The Boko Haram armed group outraged much of the world in 2014 when it abducted schoolgirls in Chibok, a town in northeastern Nigeria.
A few years after a military operation was launched against the armed group, it has claimed responsibility for a similar attack.
Hundreds of schoolboys were kidnapped, this time in the northwest.
The attack in Katsina state was initially blamed on bandit groups that have carried out kidnappings for ransom in the area.
Hundreds of students are missing while others escaped.
Boko Haram said it had targeted the school to fulfil a long-held aim of stopping Western education.