Stories like these always remind me why I’m so grateful I live in the modern era. Advances in medical science is something that’s so easy to take for granted, but it’s amazing what can be done these days.
>The third edit was **an invisibility cloak** that prevented the cells being killed by a chemotherapy drug
Can someone explain that?
I’ll be honest I got a bit lost reading the sciency bit, but I got the important part: Incurable cancer gone.
That’s pretty fuckin incredible
Every easily curable disease today was once incurable. It is not a mater of if but of when for us to find solutions to other diseases. Survival rates have been improving for many cancers what was death sentence 40 years ago is actually very curable now in many cases.
Which is why investing in biomedical sciences is so important and more needs to be done to attract and retain the best minds around. Biological sciences pays poorly compared to other STEM fields and jobs, especially advanced jobs, are difficult to come across, as well as centralised in a select few areas. We have more graduates than there are jobs but proper investment could change that and really revolutionise the medical field. However, we are still seeing the government cut research funding and the loss of EU collaboration has damaged the UK’s research output, making it harder for us to make discoveries such as this.
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heyyyy, good effort.
Fantastic news.
Stories like these always remind me why I’m so grateful I live in the modern era. Advances in medical science is something that’s so easy to take for granted, but it’s amazing what can be done these days.
>The third edit was **an invisibility cloak** that prevented the cells being killed by a chemotherapy drug
Can someone explain that?
I’ll be honest I got a bit lost reading the sciency bit, but I got the important part: Incurable cancer gone.
That’s pretty fuckin incredible
Every easily curable disease today was once incurable. It is not a mater of if but of when for us to find solutions to other diseases. Survival rates have been improving for many cancers what was death sentence 40 years ago is actually very curable now in many cases.
Which is why investing in biomedical sciences is so important and more needs to be done to attract and retain the best minds around. Biological sciences pays poorly compared to other STEM fields and jobs, especially advanced jobs, are difficult to come across, as well as centralised in a select few areas. We have more graduates than there are jobs but proper investment could change that and really revolutionise the medical field. However, we are still seeing the government cut research funding and the loss of EU collaboration has damaged the UK’s research output, making it harder for us to make discoveries such as this.