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New VR programme promotes exercise among people with intellectual disabilities

By Adam Ang 03:06 am August 29, 2023

Flinders University researchers have developed a virtual reality-based programme to encourage people with intellectual disabilities to do regular physical exercises. WHAT IT'S ABOUT According to a media release, they have recruited 16 volunteer participants from the Bedford Group – a major employer of people with intellectual disabilities in Australia, to join the eight-week exercise programme...

23andMe launches 100,000-person study of genetics and weight loss

By Jonah Comstock 03:10 pm January 4, 2018

Consumer gene testing company 23andMe is launching a large online study on the relationship between genetics and weight loss behaviors. Drawing volunteer subjects from its existing customers, the company will investigate three different weight loss strategies in a study that hopes to recruit 100,000 participants. "This is to my knowledge the first example of a genome-wide association study for...