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Emily Whitehead, Who Was Diagnosed With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia At The Age Of 5 Years Old, After 2 Years Of Unsuccessful Chemotherapy And Rapidly Declining Health, Become The First Child To Receive The CAR T-Cell Therapy At Children’s Hospital Of Philadelphia. Emily Is Now Celebrating 10 Years Of Being Cancer Free. Cool!

The Largest Known Cave Art In North America Has Been Discovered In Alabama. The Artwork, A Native American Drawing, Had Remained Unseen For More Than 1000 Years Before It Was Found In A Cave That Was First Discovered In 1998. The Giant Artworks, Which Could Depict Spirits Of The Underworld, Was Discovered Using A 3D Scan Method.

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Researchers, For The First Time, Detected DNA & RNA Nucleobases In Meteorites That Fell To Earth In The Last 100 Yrs, Using A DNA Extraction Method That’s 100X More Sensitive Than Methods Used Since The 1960s. And The Nucleobases– Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, Guanine, And Uracil, May Indicate That The Ingredient For Life Came From Space.

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A New Study Of About 405,981 British Adults Indicates That Walking Faster Could Add 20 More Years To A Person’s Biological Age. The Researchers Discovered That Walking Faster, Regardless Of Other Physical Activities, Could Lead To Longer Telomeres, Which Are The Protective “Caps” On The Ends Of The Chromosomes That Help Stabilize The DNA.

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Researchers, In A Bid To Create Stem Cells, Rejuvenated A 53-Year-Old Woman’s Skin To Look And Behave Like The Skin Of A 23-Year-Old Woman. Unfortunately, Their Method Can’t Be Used Clinically As It Could Increase Cancer Risk. But The Study May Help Identify Rejuvenating Genes That Could Be Used In Burn Treatment And Human Life Extension.

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The Largest Ice Comet Nucleus Ever Seen Has Been Confirmed Via NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The Comet, C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), ~80 Miles In Diameter, Was First Observed In 2010 From An Observatory In Chile When It Was ~3 Billion Miles From The Sun. The Previous Record Holder, C/2002 VQ94, Discovered In 2002, Was ~60 Miles Across.

Researchers May Have Discovered A Well Preserved Dinosaur Leg, Still Covered In Flesh, In The Tanis Fossil Site In North Dakota, USA. But This Fossil Is Unique As It’s Speculated To Be The First Discovery Of A Dinosaur That Was Killed And Entombed On The Exact Day Of The Cataclysmic Asteroid Strike ~66 Myrs Ago.

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Researchers Engineered A Bacteria, Probiotic E.coli Nissle 1917, To Consistently Produce, In The Gut, Effective Volumes Of L-DOPA Drug For Parkinson’s Disease Treatment. Mouse Studies Show That The Method Is Safe & Effective. And Consistent Source Of L-DOPA Could Alleviate Dyskinesias Side Effects. But More Study Is Required For Human Use.

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A New Study, Via Testing 22 Blood Samples, Has Detected, For The First Time, Tiny Particles Of Plastic In Human Blood. And Warn That The Microplastics Could Damage Human Cells. Half Of The Blood Samples Had Plastics From Drink Bottles, Another Third Had Plastics From Packaging Food. The Remaining Quarter Had Plastic From Shopping Bags.

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Scientists Used The Estimated Ages Of 250,000 Stars, Known As Sub-Giants, In The Milky Way To Determine That Part Of Our Galaxy, Associated With The Thick Disk, Is 2 Byrs Older Than Earlier Thought. The Stars’ Ages Indicate That The First Phase Of Star Formation Started ~800 Myrs After The Big Bang But Accelerated 2 Billion Years Later.

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A 2 Night Study, Involving 20 Persons, Indicates That Sleeping With Light On, At Night, Increases The Risk For Heart Disease And Diabetes. The Study May Have Attributed The Cause To The Body Being Kept More Alert Via The Light Activation Of The Autonomic Nervous System. However, Further Larger Studies Are Advised To Confirm This Result.

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Researchers Reversed The Ageing Process In Middle-Aged And Elderly Mice By Using A Gene Therapy. The Researchers Were Able To Reset Mice Cells To More Youthful States, Within A 7 To 10 Months Period, By Injecting Them With Molecules Called The Yamanaka Transcription Factors. A Safer Therapy Could Be Used Against Human Age-Related Diseases.

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Researchers Have Discovered, In NE China, The Largest Impact Crater That Formed On Earth In The Last 100000 Years. The Crescent-Shaped Crater, Called “Yilan Crater,” Is The Second Impact Crater Discovered In China. The Crater, ~46,000 To 53,000 Years Old, Is ~1.15 Miles Across. The Meteor Crater In Arizona Previously Held The Record.

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Researchers Have Discovered The World’s Largest, ~2cm Long, Bacterium In The Caribbean Mangroves. The Bacterium, Said To Have Pushed The Limit Of How Big And Sophisticated Microbes Can Become, Is Also Said Could Be The Missing Link In The Evolution Of Complex Cells. Researchers Are Proposing To Call The Bacterium Thiomargarita Magnifica.

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A US Patient, With Leukemia, Is Believed To Be The Third Person And The First Woman In The World To Be Cured Of HIV. The Patient, Who Has Been HIV Negative For 14 Months, Was Treated With A Stem Cell Transplant From Someone With A Natural Resistance To HIV. But Some Experts Say This Treatment Method Is Too Risky For Most HIV Patients.

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The World’s First Zero-Emission Hydrogen-Powered Flying Boat, Called “The Jet,” Which Can Soar 3 Ft Above The Water Surface Will Be Built In Dubai In 2023. The Noiseless Jet, Which Can Transport Up To 12 Passengers, Including A Pilot, Will Span 32 Ft, Weigh 6 Tones, And Cruise At Speeds Of Up To 40 Knots, Or 46 Miles Per Hour.

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The Popular And Favorite Ugandan Snack, Known As Rolex, Has Broken The Guinness World Records After The World’s Largest Rolex, Weighing 204.6kg (32st 3lb) And 2.32m (10ft 6in) Long, Was Created. The Record-Breaking Dish Comprised 1,200 Eggs, 90kg Of Vegetables (Onions, tomatoes, Cabbages, Carrots, And Peppers), 72kg Of Flour, And 40kg Of Cooking Oil.

Researchers, In A First Of It’s Kind, Using 130,000 Eye Retinal Images, Coupled With Machine Learning, Were Able To Estimate A Person’s Biological Age From Their Actual Age. And The Retinal Age Gap Seem To Be An Independent Predictor Of Increased Mortality Risk, Especially Of Non-cardiovascular Disease And Non-Cancer Mortality.

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The Earth’s Core Is Cooling At A Faster Rate Than Previously Thought. A New Study Estimates A 1.5X Higher Bulk Thermal Conductivity At Core-Mantle Boundary Than The Conventional Value, Which Could Imply A Faster Earth Cooling Process That Could Make The Earth Unhabitable And Tectonically Inactive Millions Or Billions Of Years From Now.

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Scientists, For The First Time, Observed A Star Explode Into A Supernova. The Star, ~120 Million Light-Years Away, Was Observed, For 130 Days Before It Exploded, Using The University of Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS Telescope In Maui. Supernovas Are Usually Only Detected, But A Few Of A Different Type Stars Have Also Been Caught In An Exploding Act.

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