SciShorts: Australia may Soon Become the First Country to Eliminate a Type of Cancer

A study shows that Australia might soon eliminate cervical cancer completely, making the country the first in the globe to do so. The successful elimination is due to the distribution of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for free in schools. This sexually transmitted virus is the cause of 99.9% of cervical cancer cases, bringing 270,000 […]

SciShorts: Alzheimer’s Can Spread Like a Viral Disease

Through studies done on mice, researchers have discovered that Alzheimer’s disease could spread like a viral infection. One of the biggest symptoms of Alzheimer’s is the formation of clumps in the brain. This is due to a protein called amyloid-β. It was discovered that when this protein accumulated in the brain, the connections between regions […]