#022 — Best News of Last Week
🐱 — Hope you had a great weekend. Let’s read some positive news :)
1. Experimental treatment in Spain puts 18 cancer patients in complete remission
Barcelona’s Clínic Hospital announces hopeful results for people with multiple myeloma. Developed through the public system, the cost is lower than commercially available products. The new therapy extracts blood from the patients, selects their T cells (another type of white blood cell) and redesigns them in the lab through genetic engineering, making them better able to recognize cancer cells.
Have read a similar thing 12 years ago, they used genetically modified HIV to bring information into the T-cells. Problem was the needed destruction and reconstruction of the complete immune system and the bill of 1 million$ per treatment. The mrna basically does the same thing now for a fraction of the coast and risk... Amazing times to be alive2. Denver Museum of Nature & Science receives $25M anonymous donation
An anonymous donor contributed $25 million to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and its supporting organization, the DMNS Foundation, which marks the largest gift in the institution’s 121-year history.
Ten percent of the donation will go to the museum to help with staffing, equipment and launch activities, the museum said. The remaining 90% will help establish an endowed fund at the DMNS Foundation.
People catching Omicron are 50% to 70% less likely to need hospital care compared with previous variants, a major analysis says. The UK Health Security Agency says its early findings are “encouraging” but the variant could still lead to large numbers of people in hospital.
Protection against severe disease is likely to be far more robust. The report comes hot on the heels of data from South Africa, Denmark, England and Scotland which all pointed to reduced severity.
Latvia’s State Forest Service (VMD) will not issue permits to hunt lynx this hunting season. The reason is because there are plans to add the Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) to the list of especially protected species.
5. Government of Canada moving forward with banning single-use plastics
“We are taking action to get plastic pollution out of Canada’s communities and our waterways. The proposed Single-Use Plastics Prohibition Regulations are a big step forward in our goal to reduce plastic pollution and move to a circular economy for plastics. Smart, clear and collaborative regulations will help drive innovation across the country as reusable and easier-to-recycle items take their place in our economy.”
-Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change
The White House says President Joe Biden signed into law Thursday a bill that bans the import of good produced by Uyghur slave labor.
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which got final Congressional approval last week after a year of negotiations, bans all imports from China’s Xinjiang region into the United States unless companies can show the U.S. government “clear and convincing evidence” their supply chains have not used the labor of ethnic Muslims enslaved in Chinese camps.
Elementary schoolteacher Turquoise LeJeune Parker was a few days away from the start of her holiday vacation when she received a text message from the mother of one of her second-grade students. The parent wondered if Parker knew where she could find food for her children during the school’s two-week winter break because her refrigerator and pantry were almost empty. Her kids relied on free school breakfasts and lunches to get them through the day.
“This mom told me she wasn’t worried about herself, but she couldn’t let her kids go without food for those two weeks,” she recalled. “I told my husband about it, and we knew we had to do something.”
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