i'm going to have you as a one does start to leave this on the spot on the on expected side to side enjoy more and more children and young people who has been diagnosed with cancer are surviving it according to the world health organization for out of 5 children cannot be cured. a lot of current research is trying to home in on white standard therapies. don't help them care and why they don't respond to 1st line treatment. at a pediatric kansas center and southern germany, experts are working on new ways to help pick exactly the right medication for their young patients. that story and much more this week on dw science program. welcome to tomorrow. today.

watching i coach at play, you'd have no idea that he's fighting a deadly disease. every day. it all began a year ago. his family was taking a holiday and the boy drifted off to sleep on his mother's stomach and in constant, okay. he had his head tilting thought tight, this isn't an this thing of really po, down like an egg. as soon as we tell him that that's not normal comes in coming onto the cook. so we headed straight to a hospital and 100 invitation. i did an online and then said he had cancer. it was like the end of the world for us that i could, suffers from the rear form of pediatric cancer because it's tumor couldn't be removed surgically. the doctors immediately started a 1st course of chemotherapy and the snap. your life changes really fast. one minute everything's fine. and if you have a healthy child, then everything changes on the desk. this diagnosis and you have to get through it that you have no other choice are for more than 2000 children and germany are

diagnosed with cancer every year. at the hop, children's cancer center in heidelberg, hold off vit heads a project that gives hope to young patients. if it's 20 percent, that can uh, for 20 percent of our child patients, we don't currently have any effective therapies available so entirely. so that's partly due to the fact of kansas in children. another lessons are dismissed significantly from those in adults. dorothy funding dis of oxygen i just what i mean is that drugs which have mainly been developed for adults, a box on no longer simply transferred one to long to children these days or 2 of a cognizant. the 1st course of chemotherapy failed and i could condition grew worse before long. he could hardly breathe at night. and matego must, here's what the m r i showed some plus and everything that's larger in color here is the cancer often, but from the image, everything look closed out of that was, it was like a rope around his neck. he was already getting it through a hole, 2 or 3 millimeters wine and a mutual its was uh 50,

so minimal that when they put him down to sleep, they had to give them adrenalin cortisone to open up his airway. and the state told us that it was so tiny to just had to bring the wrong ones, and that would be a cash off in nevada. i could urgently needed a drug to stop the tumor that there was no treatment for his cancer that could guarantee success. still his family refused to give up and were supported by a dedicated doctor in mines. it whole thought she just kept on fighting. and she said, we call and given now we have to do more surgery up too long because she said, we take another biopsy and send that to heidelberg to see what might help as in con, tumors, samples from all over europe are sent the heidelberg and behind every one of them is a child with cancer. the children all need an effective treatment. get know to cancers are identical. to researchers analyze each tumors characteristics as precisely as

possible. they search for its unique weak spots looking for clues that might tell them how best to attack it. there are hundreds of potentially effective therapies on the market, but most of them were developed for adults to find out whether they could also help a child. miniature tumors are cultivated from the children's cancer samples. thank you. peters like this house around $1000.00 many tumors per child, a 1000 guinea pigs age exposed to a particular cancer drug on behalf of a young patient. maybe come in our program, help pinpointing the right medication to the patient from a wide range of possibilities. individual inputted the police div i also sent called mosquito the machine uses, need those to dispense the cancer drive. 80 different active compounds are dripped onto the grid, played, and 5 concentrations each well and the plate contains

a many tumor which is treated for 3 days. last name, the maybe cut off to the drugs of beam to spend. we look at whether the mini team is dying. we want to see the cancer cells react and find out which drugs they react to you. we've tried the cells and when the sample tends green, we know the cells are starting to die. that's when a drug zeros are interest to see it. that way, many different substances can be tested simultaneously from a multitude of choices. the doctors can then select promising candidates and exclude therapies that aren't likely to help me to come and test. our drug program is in the late experimental phase, so i'm going to, we successfully completed a 3 year pause face and sort of patients can benefit from it. because in does, puts in the form that we haven't systematically evaluated in a large number of patients yet. and on this and i was, and i'm sorry from puts in this too much ask about the,

the list sensitivity profiling, helped i codes on college just in mines, choose a truck that's normally used to treat melanoma. they already noticed a difference after the 1st day of treatment, and now i could can finally brief freely again during the testing and heidelberg, the medication was very effective on the many tumors derived from codes, cancer tissue. the drug sensitivity profiling process worked initially as big as a tangerine i codes tumor has now shrunk to the size of a razor and get sofa. it's doing great feed, he plays the runs around lives, his life, and that he doesn't have breathing problems anymore. i mean, honestly, just better, who is the la fontose to us? it's like if things stay like that as he has a chose to live a life includes the 1st child in germany who's doing well with this type of tumor. so his story provides hope for other young cancer patients who might be saved by

the drug profiling process, entitled are the relatives to care along with dedicated medical staff and doctors can help mitigate the effects of cancer and accelerate the healing process. and a quick return to health relies in no small part on the atmosphere in the war. when it comes to architecture, most clinic sacrifice aesthetics to folks from function. but with the right planning, the to can go hand in hand and innovative hospital shows how the lots of wood and glass and an outdoorsy field that continues into the interior. it's a building that seems to breed more than 20 years ago. so it's based architectural firm helps. so again, to more on designed rehab bozza, the client had one main request. the building had to function as

a hospital wasn't supposed to feel like one over 2 decades later, the architect in charge of the project coasting have been sprung up handle hospitals, current directors, stuff on bachman. take a stroll through the light field building. there's little bits reminiscent of an ordinary hospital. it doesn't smell like one, and there are no confusing signs here, such as the cost of paying with us. either my suspect though, what you bought is one of the big issues. most hospitals have long corridors lined with doors face, and you're usually guided to where you're going with arrows. different colors of signs to show you the way. on an off here, the 1st thing you see is nature. i'll see it even on a day like today when the weather isn't particularly nice from 10 interior court yard. skip rehab, basel and unmistakable atmosphere. see nice. the it's the inner courtyard step. provide orientation on those. each is different in terms of

dimension, the different things go in the inner court yards of the light falls differently. and then you remember that, no, that's where i have to go left me. this cluster of birch trees, for example, is on the way to the therapy station. like, i don't know if you're there is an open door which is kind of a rare office. there are countries where you're not allowed to open windows and hospitals just for fear of pathogens coming in from outside. but it's a huge improvement the quality in the large opening, the fresh air make difference, you know. the indoor climate, nature and simple orientation aids are for sick people in particular. that's the focus of tonya, fully males work. the berlin based architectural psychologist studies how these factors can help reduce stress levels. then monday of this said, let's see it or that you reduce the stress or prevented in the 1st place. then

patients experienced significantly less nausea during certain therapy that pain is measurably reduced treatments cause less anxiety. patients are willing to have a therapy and don't reject it. and there's also a fairly old study by an american colleague found that in patients are easier to care for, legalized as in fine is university studies in biology and psychology. you have also shaped or research happened, an aspect of creation which via kind my 1st conversations with people seriously. oh, with cancer, i noticed that they use spatial metaphors to express their suffering and their fears. they would say things like, i feel as though i fallen into a dark hole to snow. i'm standing in front of a wall. i'm stuck on the flight when the body falls seriously hill space it inhabits those to home. mit in rehab positive has been a success with patients and doctors a like today has all going to move on design hospitals around the world with major

projects in denmark, san francisco, and a new pediatric hospital in zurich, switzerland, the a cube of staff on this new hospitals in germany, fewer and fewer people are choosing to enter caregiver profession. even though there are more and more old people in particular to meet care. will technology soon be able to fill the gap with robots? maybe one day in the distant future, put some mechanical helpers, at least, are already proving to be able assistance. good morning, highlighters and team were delighted to welcome you here at the carry test care center. meet pepper jamie and johnny. they work at the st. johannes social care center for seniors in the german town of elin box. the 3

robots are schumann, no ident appearance, but that's a big advantage. this is on a clinic. it helps when the hearts of the elderly clients is. oh yeah, i'm just place very appealing and terms of it's anatomy. i like it as a kind of child like appearance. and it's head is at eye level with our senior citizens who are always sitting down when g m, as it's pepper, has been in service here for almost 4 years, the robot cost around $40000.00 euro is back down money well spent as the morning exercise session shows in taker for our pep or your fitness trainer to i hope you feel like doing a few exercises with me today. it's all in some wild pepper and gives instructions . the nursing staff assist clients with the exercises. without it that wouldn't be possible. pepper and the other robots engage with the clients, but also perform other tasks. if an elderly client were to get up unexpectedly from their nap and take a full,

jamie could alert the human staff. it's another layer of safety and the daily routine. the meet up, i definitely start, of course the staff always have an eye on clients in need of care, but now they can sometimes carry out other activities. at the same time, jani provides entertainment with little dance routines and reminds the seniors to take their medication. please take your medicine down. a glass of water is available. thank. in principle, at least the nursing staff doesn't even have to be in the room. jani is also able to act completely independently display phones. so we never do that though because it's important to us that the human care isn't replace. and then there's always a caregiver there and cost me on business. pepper jamie and johnny are not classified as actual care robots. they're not skilled enough for that. yeah. but

what's in store in the future is being researched in nearby bavaria where the robot gummy might one day help elderly people with daily tasks as t. i see that's our goal is to support patients for as long as possible so that they continue to live at home independently with some mechanical assistance. and to show that still a long way down the road go gummy is still very much a research project along with every day assistance that might also play a role in tele medicine. one day for 4 years. dr. otto, charlie unnecessary, and his team has been researching how robotics and artificial intelligence might be used effectively in the health care sector. gandhi is constantly being taught new skills, like interpreting more complex needs. it can recognize facial expressions, what is this, how the pain and so on, based on this you decide on your trigger actions. so it kind of cool nicely to

person for the dog. this is old vision pipelines, but it can come eyes visually the meets. so from the audio side, based on asking questions also to, to, to the patient for extensive advice as the patient can say, i'm thirsty and then do you need the bottle of water or tea or hot tea or i am cold? should i bring you blanket the jackets and tele medicine the robot could also soon start playing a more important role. this patient is in pain. he says it started suddenly while he was reading. ok, good to assign, but i will carry out a remote exam with grammy's help. with the aid of tactile sensors gone, you can assess the patient's strength and range of movement. that information is sent to the doctor who uses it to assess the symptoms. it doesn't matter if the patient is in the doctor's office or many kilometers away. vtc

coming but city important thing is that i can talk to the patients. they can hear me and i can hear them. you can have a conversation. i can reassure the patient and examined them even if from a distance both as a doctor. it often happens that patients ask for a consult straight away. really, if i have to drive 10 or 20 kilometers out into the countryside to see them, that can really be an issue for him. holly is also a care robot though with a different design, then government that can provide support when administering medication. i can also push patients along pre defined paths in a wheelchair hallway can also assist with obtaining medical histories for documenting boons during a test and a pre defined environment. holly managed quite well that a real hospital or care environment is more complex. but not always. there are often small issues that

a human can figure out without even noticing the bush, which still present a major challenge to a robot total. but the technology is advancing rapidly and the more sophisticated it's programming, the more a robot can do. some experts predict robots could be used in the care giving and health care sectors within about 10 years. but size and weight are often still a problem. and so is the price, not including expenses for research and personnel gone. the costs around 300000 bureaus on the medical devices. it is, it is just but we want to go low cost, but this $1.00, it's not only dependent on us, but we depend also to involve most of the insurances to come. and we come together in order to build a business model for how they can afford it and, and, and box at least the smaller robotics systems are already playing

a role in every day care. but a support for human staff, not as a replacement, think cut it into essentially a nursing, a warm hand and a human word are the most important things at all. we aren't going to replace any human care workers, but i think that the robotic assistance can give staff more time for care, work and entertain clients in the process. so would you interest her grandmother's care to a robot? as we heard, there's so many hurdles to overcome before that could happen because daily life in centers is tightly regulated. however, good care will always require empathetic and responsible human caregiver. also when it comes to supporting people with contribute to generative disorders like parkinson's disease or multiple sclerosis, regular movement and exercise can help slow down the progression of neurological conditions. and project from switzerland. researchers are now harness thing,

a powerful tool, the it all started with this ballet at the zurich opera house, entitled, the cellist, it tells the story of jack is into prey a talented english musician who suffered a tragic fate. in her mid twenties, she felt filled with multiple sclerosis and soon lost what she loved most playing the cello. the moving piece was choreographed by the operas new ballet director testing morris. done 2 to 3. just like look him. so $11.00 and then jessica. yeah, exactly. it needs to be nachos and then he's a former professional dancer, a translated m. s. symptoms into artistic movement. she's familiar with the tremors and weaknesses the disease causes. and that was personal for me because my mother

lives with multiple sclerosis. and so it did feel like something that i was drawn to express in dance if it was interestingly a way for me to understand more about the way that my mother lives now. she still moves around the house. she has sticks, she has a frame, she has a wheelchair for when she goes out to try sometimes to, to go to apply to use and keep moving. i mean, it's obviously compromised in a way, but if it has to keep moving, that's, that's what she really realizes. the awareness of how important movement is for people with them as the choreographer to develop a new dance project called connect the cloud. the, i believe the don'ts and music can change sides can connect is a cooperative project involving xerox opera house, the cities tone, honda concert hall in partners who specialize in dance therapy,

topping that deep well of expertise. the aim is to establish a weekly dance training program for people who face neurological challenges such as multiple sclerosis or parkinson's disease. what i see is that it offers an inspiration, a sense of feeling your body again, of hearing music and moving and expressing yourself to music see movement. and you know, actually my dad has parkinson's. now, that's a recent development and a co, incidental one. but i can see that through moving through making shapes with your body, you find a different relationship against your sense of balance, your sense of muscle control. researchers at the loo, sir in university of applied sciences and arts are involved in a related project. they're investigating how music and dance might help parkinson's patients. that symptoms include tremors, muscle stiffness,

and problems with walking, but also motivation issues. music, psychologist, dawn rose, heads up the research. so music has 2 important properties. one is organizational, so this is the risen or the beats in the music. so in the matching, this is very simple. can that at that the and then the working steps can go in time with the rhythm. and then the other aspect is the motivational side of music. so it makes any exercise more fun thoughts. they've agreed. she's been living with parkinson's for 7 years. also make the most seeking to me that i just got involved with it more when as music i think of this that music is one of those things that makes every day life easy off in school, the sorry for, for the home to acquire data research team set up a motion capture loud,

and it subjects are fitted with sensors and their exact movements are recorded by several and for read cameras. the precise measurements are used to create a 3 d model. this allows the scientists to determine the effects of listening to music and dancing directly. the project breaks new ground in perking sense research . we're looking at functional, my bill, etc. so how they reach for some saying what quality of movement is changing. and of course, we kind of embed this within the dump saying so quite often we will be asking them to do something on one leg and top vieza. but this of course is to really practice the balance. but it doesn't feel like you're practicing balance because everyone's having fund on say what the researchers work closely with the people affect who don't grow, who's called the real experts. many don't want to dance and hairs, but in groups through a range of different music genres. dismiss

hash, it opens up my heart and fills it out. it's just nice. it makes you happy skipped. it's pretty high. one of the subjects in the study visa tomato was diagnosed with parkinson's. 6 years ago. she has trouble with some move max and just sometimes clicked by painful muscle graphs. she hopes, taking part and will help her again skills that others take for granted. solve the custodial. i realize that i feel like my balance is off when i walk. i want to feel most secure and confident again that i can walk in a straight line and not always leave around thoughts and especially most welcome to you. there's still no cure for parkinson's disease or multiple sclerosis. but dancing offers people who are affected by those diseases, the chance to remain independent, longer improving their physical control and quality of life and the connect project and others. some people have never lived with dance in the way i have,

of course. but what i want to do is offer that you can experience what it is to move your body and an expressive, artistic way. and i want to share that with before, even if they fail, it is too late, or they con, they can to do you have a passion for science and health? check out d, w signs the contract talking. why do coming does not get drunk. why do gravitational waves squeeze out bodies? how much was it? do we need to pay days? do stress stops on screen for help? know? and what is the perfect queue of football by find beyond says yes, mos on dw science. oh, tick, tock, channel. that's all for this week and tomorrow today,

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