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- mg330
Pretty amazing stuff. Project started in the 80s and won't be some until the 2030's.
One giant leap for mankind: £13bn Iter project makes breakthrough in the quest for nuclear fusion, a solution to climate change and an age of clean, cheap energy.
- PhanLo1
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'The doctors were puzzled. Parker had a temperature of 38C, complained of aching limbs, and had pustular eruptions all over her body. But as newspapers had announced the last known case of the disease a year before, smallpox was the last thing on anyone’s minds. Parker hadn’t been out of the country, and had been vaccinated against the disease in 1966. But as they noted her raised white cell count and mild renal failure, a terrifying realisation took hold: they had a case of one the world’s most dangerous and contagious diseases in a busy hospital in suburban Birmingham.'
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Mad story about a smallpox outbreak in Birmingham in the 70's. There's a bit about the scientist driving about with samples of the deadliest strains of the disease in the back of his car.
Pretty lucky there were some quick thinking people involved.
- shapesalad3
https://tsailaboratory.mit.edu/t…
A new peptide may hold potential as an Alzheimer’s treatment.
The peptide blocks a hyperactive brain enzyme that contributes to the neurodegeneration seen in Alzheimer’s and other diseases
MIT neuroscientists have found a way to reverse neurodegeneration and other symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease by interfering with an enzyme that is typically overactive in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.
- robotron3k0
Oh shit it's happening live...
Wolf moon eclipse!
- i_monk2
Measles eliminated in the Americas