Good news for babies, climate science, scar-free healing
Among the items in the subscriber section of this Fix the News:
— China, the United States, Indonesia and India have reported record-low infant mortality rates.
— Carbon Brief has announced Project Cosmos, a collaboration to build the world’s largest and most complete database of climate change research. The database contains 1.8 million individual publications.
The oldest publication in the database was published in 1483.
— Canadian doctors say 18-year-old Kaitlin Jeffrey is the world’s first burn patient treated using exosomes, tiny particles released by cells that help coordinate healing.
Traditional skin grafts can save lives and restore damaged tissue, but they often leave significant scarring and can’t return skin to its original appearance, says CBC, Canada’s national public broadcaster.
But wait till you see the beautiful photo of Kaitlin after the exosome treatment.
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Might we eventually cure almost anything that ails us by tweaking our microbiomes — the microorganisms that live in our bodies?
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