CAR T cell therapy was originally designed to target and wipe out cancer by reprogramming a patient’s immune cells.
Now, researchers are testing this "game changer" treatment on patients with autoimmune diseases like lupus, Graves', and multiple sclerosis. #KnowableMagazine #ScienceMastodon
✍️ Amber Dance: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2026/car-t-cell-therapy-could-treat-autoimmune-diseases
"The tapestry of life ... means that all living beings are interwoven into a tapestry in which we share evolutionary, ecological and symbolic connections. It sounds poetic, but it’s actually based on the latest scientific evidence. We share genes with other organisms because we all descend from a single primordial organism. There is no biological discontinuity." #ScienceMastodon #KnowableMagazine
- Biologist and ecologist Sandra Díaz
✍️ Valeria Román: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2026/fragile-future-of-biodiversity
👨 Chip off the old gene block? How Dad's habits get passed down...
✍️ Holly Barker: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/epigenetic-effects-of-sperm-on-offspring
🚀 Feliz por la publicación de nuestra investigación en la revista Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico "El impacto de las aplicaciones estadísticas en el periodismo deportivo: estudio comparativo entre valoraciones algorítmicas y humanas en el fútbol de élite".
https://doi.org/10.5209/esmp.103702
#Periodismo #PeriodismoDeportivo #Fútbol #Algoritmos #Investigación #ScienceMastodon
Among the discoveries is a slab of crust that runs from Maine to Georgia and may have formed via volcanic eruptions some 200 million years ago when the supercontinent Pangea broke up. For more on the geology of that eastern stretch of North America, read our recent story. https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/physical-world/2025/how-did-eastern-north-america-form
Across the United States, an array of 1,800 stations has been probing the electrical conductivity of rocks deep beneath the surface. This Magnetotelluric Array has uncovered hidden fragments of continent, the stretching of crust and places likely to harbor mineral deposits, Paul Voosen reports at Science.
https://www.science.org/content/article/deep-earth-map-reveals-lost-u-s-continent
🐍 New fossils and modern techniques are updating the story of how our favorite sssslithering reptiles came to be.
✍️ Amber Dance: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/evolution-of-snakes
Hype, danger or effective therapy? The use of psychedelic substances such as psilocybin, ketamine and LSD to treat mental disorders is controversial. What matters above all is that these therapies are targeted effectively. Researchers from #CharitéBerlin have researched for the first time who these therapies can help – and who they might harm.
See the results 👇
https://www.charite.de/en/service/press_reports/artikel/detail/psychedelic_substances_who_can_they_help_and_who_might_they_harm
#Research #Science #Medicine #MedMastodon #ScienceMastodon #CharitéPaper #Depression #Psychedelics
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers. By 2030, it’s expected to kill more people in the United States than any cancer except for lung cancer.
Read Amber Dance's piece on the path to curing it: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/progress-for-pancreatic-cancer
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