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Thread: 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine

  1. 10-23-2018, 01:12 PM #1
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    Lightbulb 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine

    Ran into this extremely fascinating (and lengthy) WIRED article revealing the work done by a researcher who uncovered the most substantial cancer fighting breakthrough of our time. The article compares the achievement to the discovery of penicillin.

    Up until this multi-talented Texan's research, our immune system had baffled scientists' ability to pinpoint and explain the underlying mechanisms keeping our bodies healthy. Sort of like our unexplored deep oceans -- we know the moon intimately well yet 90% of the oceans are an utter mystery.

    Yet the guy plays the blues harmonica well enough to have backed up Willie Nelson one random evening in some bar in California. (Maybe dope is for doctorates, too?)


    MEET THE CAROUSING, HARMONICA-PLAYING TEXAN WHO JUST WON A NOBEL FOR HIS CANCER BREAKTHROUGH

    https://www.wired.com/story/meet-jim...-breakthrough/
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    Thank you for that. Very interesting material. Hopefully this will start a path towards advanced treatment. And I always enjoy a success story, especially when it’s in so close to home.
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    Exciting news! Unfortunately it will be overshadowed by politics, the caravan coming to the US and Megan Markles baby bullshit!

    We are a broken society! Things that should matter the most now matter the least!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Johntoad57 View Post
    Exciting news! Unfortunately it will be overshadowed by politics, the caravan coming to the US and Megan Markles baby bullshit!

    We are a broken society! Things that should matter the most now matter the least!
    No, the issue will be it's affordability for us. The rich Saudis will flock here for the treatment.
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