Scientists discovered the source of multiple sclerosis to be the mononucleosis family of viruses.
Do you have a source for that? As I have close friends affected by MS I’d be really interested in reading a paper about it and sharing it with them.
From my initial searches I can’t seem to find anything else than this being a proposed theory among others.
Edit: I’ve found this article https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/study-suggests-epstein-barr-virus-may-cause-multiple-sclerosis suggesting it’s at least one of the factor but not the source of it.
I found this one but it’s locked behind a Paywall so I can’t tell you the full story. I did however find that it’s linked to or referenced by 35 other sites, most of which are reputable science sites
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41582-023-00775-5
Edit: another that is talking about the next stages of research now they discovered this
Thanks, that’s really interesting. I’ll try to find the opened paper somewhere else, but the abstract already gives a lot of interesting informations :)
Is there a non youtube source? It’s not in the description.
This seems so out of left field that I wouldn’t have believed it save for me actually looking it up myself
I mean that does prove it fits the OP well, doesn’t it?
Going to need you to actually link a source for that because I don’t know if your bullshitting or not
This is not new. My mother was diagnosed with MS over a decade ago and this was a theory then. I also have an auto immune disease and it has been linked to mine and pretty much every one of them including long COVID. As far as I know I’ve never had it.
JWST’s observations seem to have made “the crisis in cosmology” worse. i.e two of the most well known proxies for the expansion rate of the universe are diverging from one another: https://youtu.be/hps-HfpL1vc?si=DOEv2DWQ6vya6NI6
And the followup: https://youtu.be/-kTe0xRAU1w?si=wVZrva1mQYUeTS-A
Lol, I read “cosmetology” instead of “cosmology” and for a second was thinking there was some sort of cosmetic student crisis happening.
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Wow. That last one is super fucking cool. Lots of questions about longevity, but still, science is wild!
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A new type of ceramic-based storage technology by a German startup: https://www.cerabyte.com/ It stores infinitely more data than regular hard discs, lasts longer too. Might not everyone’s cup of tea, but I’m very interested.
Microsoft also has something similar and designed around data centers, called ‘project sillica’ or just ‘sillica’ or something
I design substations for a living, and the major client I’m assigned to is a data storage Corp. This is… fascinating. Right now the big thing my client is switching to is “data cubes” to replace the miles-long structures needed to store data on regular servers. Very curious about how this will enable companies like my client to save massive amounts of space for their data centers
New space station was launched and has people living there.
Are you talking about chinese one or some other one?
yes, the chinese space station (since named Tiangong after passing the trials) - it didn’t seem to be well-known in the public consciousness here.
The begginings of the cures for human blindness
Don’t fucking tell me that. Prions scare the shit out of me and so does dementia. It’s like now they are evil super friends.
For software engineers; you can make an executable that runs ANYWHERE. Same file, executes on windows and on Linux and on mac, x86, arm doesn’t matter.
I discovered that follistatin gen therapy is available to the general public (for $25.000). Basically you can have a body builder body for $25.000.
That’s very interesting, I did a Google search for it but couldn’t find much discussion around $25,000 therapy sessions, do you know more that you could share?
That was wild.
Crazy that it only last 1-2 years though. Would be worth it if it lasted 10. 100% would save up and pay 5k every 10 years to have this done.
Prices are going to be down fast
Ah, only to an extent. Botox has been out for forever, and I still don’t see myself affording upkeep with how often it needs to be done.
Great, we’re gonna have re-incombinate dna juicers. This will go well.
We can revert normal human bloodcells into stem cells and then into specialized cells like neurons. It was an incredible breakthrough several years ago that nobody seems to know. There’s been recent developments too
I only found out about it when I was talking to Hon (the lead on this project), and asked him where he got the neurons for playing pong, and he said “I got them from myself”.
Do you have a link for the paper that describes the process for converting blood into stem cells? Curious how they went about it because making red blood cells into stem cells would be hard since they have no nucleus and no DNA. I googled but couldn’t find anything about how they do it.
Fair warning, I was only taking Hon’s word for it in my original comment.
That said, the magic term that will get you a flood of journal articles is “induced pluripotent stem cells ( iPSCs)” and this article a good overview/context to the work.
I’ll edit my comment to include the link
Thanks, that looks legit, especially considering they got a Nobel for the process. Red blood cells wouldn’t work though, no genetic material to tell the cell what to do. Skin cells sure but deeper layers before they ditch their nucleus. The bottom layer of your epidermis is already made of stem cells that continuously produce new keratinocytes (skin cells). That’d make sense as a starting point for what they did. I’ve been in medicine for seven years and there have been all kinds of crazy claims made but researchers so I’m always skeptical.
Not so recent but achievement of EUV litography.
Seems OP is Vsauce2 preparing a new mindblowm
BioNTech has several mRNA based cancer vaccines in different trial stages.
The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is in a phase 2 trial of a mRNA vaccine against pancreatic cancer. The first phase found that the treatment prevented the spread of tumors in 8 of 16 patients.
I can confidently say that I understood maybe 5% of the Nature paper about the phase 1 trial linked in above article but my takeaway is that even 2 years after the study, 50% (8 of 16) of the patients who got the vaccine against pancreas cancer where attested with significantly higher amounts of T-Cells. I can imagine this is pretty remarkable, considering the severity of that type of cancer.
I don’t know if the phase 2 trial still is open for patients but I 100% would try to contact them if I was a patient. I mean mRNA isn’t exactly new but over 30 years in the making.
Nevertheless I hope this will beat most cancers as well as cultured meat will beat the animal agriculture and renewable/fusion will beat nuclear/fossile. Image the paradise that would be. I know thats naive considering the world rn.
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I found some lint in my belly button. Nobody’s given it much attention at all.
More after the weather - how’s it looking this weekend Todd?
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