This is awesome news.

Gene therapy has been around for many years, but early attempts at it were largely unsuccessful.

It now looks like it may be a treatment whose time has finally come.

Obviously this is based on just 1 patient, and we need not only more patients but also much longer follow-up to be sure how useful it will be, but still, this looks really promising.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y0y56x6veo

#GeneTherapy #MedicalResearch #ScienceFTW

Hunter syndrome: Boy with rare condition amazes doctors after world-first gene therapy

Oliver has an inherited condition called Hunter syndrome, which causes progressive damage to the body and brain.

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The best science images of 2023 – Nature’s picks

Cosmic dust, microscopic syrup, a flying gecko and more.

‘Forever chemicals’ are eternal no more thanks to a pollution destroying device from Tacoma startup https://www.geekwire.com/2023/this-startup-has-a-weapon-of-pfas-destruction-that-fits-inside-a-10-foot-shipping-container/ #scienceFTW
‘Forever chemicals’ are eternal no more thanks to a pollution destroying device from Tacoma startup

The Aquagga team deployed their PFAS destroying device to Fairbanks, Alaska, this summer and were treated to Northern Lights. (Aquagga Photo) It would be

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Breaking: Universe's real age is 26.7 billion years! That's a lot of candles on the cosmic cake compared to a measly 6,000 posited by young earth creationists - they are off by just a smidge... or 26,694,000,000 years.
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https://phys.org/news/2023-07-age-universe-billion-years-previously.html
New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly twice as old as previously believed

Our universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to a new study that challenges the dominant cosmological model and sheds new light on the so-called "impossible early galaxy problem."

It looks like there is a promising nasal spray calcium channel blocker that is highly effective at stopping SVT incidents without adverse side effects. In double-blind RCT trials at present, I think.

See https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)00776-6/fulltext

#SVT #MVM #StupidBiology #ScienceFTW

Booked my 4th #CovidVaccine shot.

Wife, who has autoimmune problems booked her 5th the same day.

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that can't be real! #wifi #airplane #aeorplane #science #belief #ibelieve #cunk #fyp #mockumentary

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Moon science: Results from our 🌚moon satellite that purposefully crashed into the dark side of the moon after 180+ days of lunar orbit showed that our moon is engulfed in a permanent, lopsided dust cloud that GROWS and GLOWS during annual events like meteor showers.

The lunar dust cloud with neon was discovered using data from a detector box on board the Lunar Atmosphere Environment Explorer called the LDEX 🌚

#science #moon #scientist #astrobiology #nasa #space #LADEE #scienceFTW

Moon science fact: Data from our 🌚 #moon satellite confirmed that the its thin atmosphere contains neon, a gas commonly used in electric signs on Earth because of its intense glow.

Scientists thought there was neon in the moon's atmosphere for decades, but it was not until NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) that it was confirmed.

Moon dust can be extremely toxic to astronauts.

#nasa #space #scientist #neon #moon #science #scienceFTW #astronaut

Did you know... in Canada, researchers found that just adding 10 more trees to a city block improved perceived health and wellbeing as much as increasing people’s income by 10,000 dollars or making them 7 years younger? #canada #naturehealth #mastodon #savegreen #kindnessworks #waytogoscience #scienceftw