Penney Micheal

A Hand Stencil Found In A Cave On Muna Island, Sulawesi, Indonesia Is The Oldest Known Rock Art, Dated To ~67,800 Years Ago. Over 1,100 Years Older Than A Neanderthal Stencil From Spain, It Pushes Back Symbolic Art Worldwide And Suggests Early Modern Humans Used Boats To Cross Open Sea, Aiding Their Arrival In Australia By 65,000 Years Ago.

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Baby KJ Muldoon, The World’s First Patient To Receive Personalized CRISPR Therapy At The U.S.’s Oldest Children’s Hospital In Philadelphia, Has Taken His First Steps. CRISPR Edited His Gene To Prevent Deadly Ammonia Buildup From An Ultra-Rare Condition. Now 16 Months Old & Thriving At Home, He’s Preparing For His First Christmas With Family.

The Sundaland Fossil Site, Once A Rich Savannah In Indonesia’s Madura Strait, Is The World’s First Underwater Hominin Fossil Site. It Includes A 140k-Year-Old Homo Erectus Skull & 6,000+ Animal Fossils, Revealing Hunting, & Tool Use, Reshaping Human Migration Theories In SE Asia. The Site Was Home To Elephants, Stegodons, Bovids, Deer, Etc

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Researchers Have Injected The First Human Patient With A Virus Engineered Solely To Kill Cancer. The Virus, Vixinia, Was Effective Against Cancer In Animals, Especially For Lung, Breast, Ovaries, Pancreas, And Colon Cancer. Vixinia Is Said To Boost The Body’s Immune Response To Cancer And Make Cancer Cells More Visible To The Immune System.

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An Israeli Company, NanoScent, Has Modified A Device To Detect COVID-19 From A Person’s Breath. The Device, Initially Built To Detect Cancers Or Other Health Predicaments Based On The Molecules In A Person’s Breath, Comprises A Breath Airbag And Sensors Equipped With Smart Algorithms, Which Can Indicate Whether Or Not A Person Has COVID-19.

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Researchers Have Discovered Footprints In New Mexico That Mostly Belong To Children And Teenagers Who Lived Btw 21,000- 23,000 Years Ago. The Footprints Are The Oldest Evidence Denoting That Humans Reached The Americas ~7000 Years Earlier Than The 16,000 Years Originally Thought. This Discovery May Indicate An Unknown Great Human Migration.

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Sweden Has Shipped The World’s First Steel Produced Without Fossil Fuel. The Steel Will Help Combat Climate Change, As Reports Indicate 553 Conventional Steel Plants Worldwide Produce 9% Of All CO2 Emissions. The Steel Was Shipped To Swedish Truck Maker Volvo AB, With Industrial Quantities Of The Steel Expected To Be Available By 2026.

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Researchers, For The First Time, Injected CRISPR Drug Into The Blood Of People Afflicted With Transthyretin Amyloidosis—A Rare Deadly Liver Disease. And Early Results Show That, In 3 Persons, The CRISPR Drug Alleviated Toxic Protein Production Close To The Liver, Indicating Possible Success For Injectable CRISPR Treatment.

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A New Study, Based On Sleep Data From 85,000 Participants And Self Reported Data, Has Found A Link Btw Misaligned Sleep Cycle And Depressions/Anxiety. For Example, Night Folks Are More Likely To Be Depressed/Anxious When Working In The Morning, Relative To Morning Folks, Who Are Also More Exposed To Sunlight, Which’s Great For Depression.

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Researchers Successfully Tested A New Cancer And Bacterial Killing Drug, SeNBD, By Embedding It, Like A Trojan Horse, Into Food Compounds For Cancerous Cells To Ingest. And SeNBD Only Activates In Visible Light, Enabling Doctors Decide When To Precisely Activate It, To Reduce The Chance Of Healthy Tissue Destruction And Other Side Effects.

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