Senators propose Down Syndrome research funding

In the United States, 400,000 individuals are living with Down syndrome, yet funding to further the research for the most common single cause of human birth defects is low and two senators are making a point to change that. Sen. Sherrod Brown and Sen. Susan Collins proposed two bills that would allocate $6million annually to […]

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Touch screens you can feel: literally

New technology may make it possible for a person to “feel” images that appear on a touch screen. Researchers at the Nagoya Institute of Technology have developed an array of 400 individually controlled ultrasonic speakers connected to a touch screen. The input coming out of the speakers flows out as a single point pushing on […]

Blind: not a title, a way of life

Pastor, father, husband, counselor and friend are all titles Derek Daniel gladly calls himself. Blind is not one of them. “This, being blind, is not who I am,” Daniel said. “This does not define me.” Ten years ago, Daniel experienced a sudden and dramatic loss of vision soon after he graduated high school. After several […]