@tgraf66 Wow! This is incredible news. And the article states that they have already started some Phase I trials in humans (one for celiac disease and starting one for multiple sclerosis):
"More work is needed to study Hubbell’s pGal compounds in humans, but initial phase I safety trials have already been carried out in people with celiac disease, an autoimmune disease that is associated with eating wheat, barley, and rye, and phase I safety trials are underway in multiple sclerosis. Those trials are conducted by the pharmaceutical company Anokion SA, which helped fund the new work and which Hubbell cofounded and is a consultant, board member, and equity holder. The Alper Family Foundation also helped fund the research."
@tgraf66 wow this will be a game changer…thx for sharing.
@tgraf66 Wow! I just read the article. That is incredible news. It was targeted for a specific mutation and was an immunotherapy. But to have 100% of patients in the small trial be cancer free is astounding.
"The results have provided “what may be an early glimpse of a revolutionary treatment shift”, Dr Hanna Sanoff, an oncologist at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina, who was not involved in the trial, wrote in an editorial accompanying the paper."
@tgraf66 Thanks for sharing those medical breakthroughs. Although it will take some time to get all of these studies through trials and into mainstream medicine, it will no doubt change how we approach ALL immune diseases, including cancer. I love reading these articles because it gives me hope for our future. Despite the abhorrent polarization of our country and the long wars in which we're engaged, real progress that impacts life and death is on our doorstep.
Speaking of progress, I just read the results from a new 14 year study called the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) regarding dark energy. 1f proven, it means that dark energy is not a constantly expanding force that will eventually cause the collapse of our universe, but an inconstant force that both expands and contracts. The study is ongoing, but this "hint" (as the scientists call it) is a fascinating outcome: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/science/space/astronomy-universe-dark-energy.html
@kathleen I'm no scientist or mathematician, but I am at some level not completely convinced that dark energy/dark matter are actual things. Assuming they are, however, and knowing that light energy takes many forms and is just as inconstant as the article says that dark energy is, it wouldn't surprise me that much. In fact, if one takes the stance that the universe is itself a living being, it would make sense, really. In meditation practice and in many martial arts, practitioners learn that the breath is the energy behind everything. If both types of energy do have regular fluctuations, then perhaps we are beginning to discover that the universe - as with all other things we know - is breathing.
Perhaps some progress in the battle against Alzheimer's:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/01/250115125408.htm
@tgraf66 unfortunately Federal aid supporting medical research has been targeted by the muskrat. Recent AP release:
”A federal judge on Friday again blocked the Trump administration’s drastic cuts in medical research funding that many scientists say will endanger patients and delay new lifesaving studies.
The new National Institutes of Health policy would strip research groups of hundreds of millions of dollars to cover so-called indirect expenses of studying Alzheimer’s, cancer, heart disease and a host of other illnesses — anything from clinical trials of new treatments to basic lab research that is the foundation for discoveries
Separate lawsuits filed by a group of 22 states plus organizations representing universities, hospitals and research institutions nationwide sued to stop the cuts, saying they would cause “irreparable harm…”—Associated Press
A sad breakthrough ... RFK Jr finally admitted ... the vaccines are the best way to prevent measles. After two children have died from measles and countless others have permanent liver damage and more from his quack cures like overdosing on cod liver oil and have too much vitamin A causing severe liver damage and other organ failure.
He is a special kind of evil https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/06/rfk-jr-measles-statement-west-texas-outbreak/?utm_campaign=rss&utm_source=flatplan
In case anyone has unvaccinated kids, consider:
The CDC says measles droplets can linger in the air for 2 hours, with a 95% infection rate. Although they've only seen 81 cases so far, those cases occurred in just one week, which was last week. And that was more than all the cases seen in all of last year. Two otherwise health kids died.
The MMR vaccine is 97% effective after two doses and has a 60+ year safety record. Meanwhile, misinformation like using vitamin A as a treatment is putting kids at further risk. Doctors in Texas are seeing liver issues in unvaccinated kids due to vitamin A overuse. While there have been unfounded rumors for years that the MMR vaccine is unsafe, people have gotten a pass because so much of the population has been vaccinated. But in certain, anti-vaccine communities, the disease can spread.
Keep in mind that there is no cure for measles, if you or your child gets it.
Did you get measles in the 1950's when 95 percent of the US population got it? If so, you might have lifetime immunity, but there are exceptions, so if you live where that outbreak is, or are planning to travel internationally, you can get an antibody test. Here's a good article on what we know about measles:
@journeywithme2 Well, he gets one tiny brownie point from me for finally admitting he was wrong. None of the other t acolyte appointees ever seem to do so. (Not that it makes up for the damage done.)
Perhaps he is not throughly evil, just stupid from all the drug use and the brain worm.
@journeywithme2 A membership to statnews was required to read the whole thing. I was only able to read first bit before I posted. Do you have a more accessible link?
@ana You can sign up for a free limited access article that will allow you to read the entire article. It only take a minute ..that is what I did.
But here is the gist of it : "Kennedy, who has long described the vaccine as dangerous, has largely avoided endorsing its use since the start of the outbreak, and he stopped short of explicitly saying he “recommended” it in his latest remarks, as public health officials have called on him to do
Hours later, Kennedy promoted unorthodox, unproven treatments for the disease in another post. He spent time with “extraordinary healers,” he said — doctors Richard Bartlett and Ben Edwards — who had treated children with measles with aerosolized budesonide and clarithromycin.
Those drugs, a steroid and antibiotic, respectively, are not proven measles treatments, physicians and health experts have said after Kennedy previously promoted them. Budesonide may even weaken the immune system, according to the Mayo Clinic."
@journeywithme2 Thanks for the summary.
I try not to sign up for such memberships unless I know I will actually use them on a regular basis. It helps me avoid new spam tsunamis.