📈 Human Progress
🩸Artificial kidney could save more lives – and make dialysis unnecessary
More people die from kidney disease than from breast or prostate cancer each year. Many of these deaths could be avoided if the patient had a kidney transplant, but there is a shortage of donors.The next best option is dialysis, but it is quite a complicated procedure...
🌍 World Cleanup Day attracted 50 million volunteers
This year’s World Cleanup Day, gathered approximately 50 million people from 180 countries. Some people picked up litter alongside rivers and in forests. Divers collected marine debris in the Pacific and children in Africa collected trash on the beaches....
🎗 Major breakthrough for breast cancer with new treatment
A new treatment for breast cancer is currently being tested at the University Hospital in Uppsala. In the first tests, the treatment has been much more effective than the best of those currently available."The first studies of Enhertu as the drug is called, show...
🏆 Macmillan and List Scoop the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Royal Swedish Academy of Science, in charge of selecting Nobel Laureates, just announced the awarding of 2021’s Nobel prize in Chemistry to laureates Benjamin List and David MacMillan for their ingenious contribution to the development of asymmetric...
