“Hidden Breakthroughs: 69 Scientific Marvels That Shocked Experts but Were Ignored by the World”
What happened was…nothing. No reaction occured, no new compound were formed, contrary to the original experiment. Since the container in the original experiment was glass, they decided to add a few silicate pellets in their container and redo the experiment.
The results were even better than expected :
– they obtained fully formed amino-acids, not just simple organic compounds.
– among these amino-acids were the five that make up DNA and RNA.
– fully closed phospholipid chains, aka empty proto-cells, were observed.
GS 441524. A medication developed for an extremely funky cat disease called FIP (Feline Infectious Peritonitis).
This awful mutation of feline coronavirus has a 100% fatality rate if left untreated, and the medication I stated above was first synthesized in 2018 by Gilead Sciences, an HIV medication company in Raleigh NC. This medication took it from a 100% death rate to a 95%+ survival rate basically instantly. Other countries legalized it long before the US did (which is strange since it was synthesized here but you know the FDA) and it is wild how it instantly attacks and eliminates symptoms of FIP.
Our cat had Neurological FIP, with her symptoms being extreme lethargy, dehydration, complete loss of appetite and thirst, loss of balance, and a fever. Most of her symptoms were completely gone in about a week. The fever broke after the first dose. Please if you’ve got cats, inform yourself about this awful disease. Most cats that pass away from it nowadays only do so because it is incredibly difficult to diagnose without an MRI or spinal tap, and if you don’t get them on the medicine very quickly they don’t make it long.
BTW I’m no scientist but I’ve completely educated myself on the world of this disease since having to treat it with our cat.
This at the time it was extremely significant.
The eradication of Smallpox, one of humanity’s deadliest diseases. Nowadays it’s shrouded in a bunch of anti-vax b******t, should it ever come back there is no way we’d be able to eradicate it.
Similarly, in 2011, we eliminated Rhinderpest, a common infectious disease among cattle. To date, these two diseases are the only diseases in history to be eradicated worldwide and are no longer a threat to life.
I wish to also remind you that the *global* effort to eradicate one of the deadliest diseases in cattle cost $5 billion USD. Smallpox eradication was $300 million in 1967, accounting for inflation that’s about $2.8 billion USD.
A collective $7.8 billion to globally eradicate some of the deadliest diseases on planet earth.
# The fact that bacteria can communicate — and have their own “language.”
**→** ***Quorum sensing***
Scientists discovered that bacteria aren’t just single-celled loners they actually communicate with chemical signals, vote on decisions, and act collectively when they reach a “quorum” (like, “Okay, now there’s enough of us, let’s release the toxins / form a biofilm / light up like in bioluminescence”).
It’s like social media for microbes. Literal **group chats** for germs. And it’s been happening on Earth way before humans even existed.
And we just… shrugged?
This has massive implications from understanding infections to rethinking antibiotics to designing new bioengineered systems. It’s like realizing ants build cities… but on a *molecular* scale.
The digital camera which was invented by an engineer in Kodak. Kodak wanted to keep things traditional and brushed off his invention.
The solid state transistor, what was once the size of a light bulb is now in nanometers and there are billions of them in a single PC processor smaller than a postage stamp.
In the last couple of years they discovered an algae that had non-lethally absorbed a bacteria that produced nitrogen. It’s the birth of a whole new form of metabolism. The sprouting of a new trunk on the tree of life.
There are only 3 other known cases of an event like this in the history of life. And yet I barely heard anything about it.
The Japanese plastic eating bacteria got more coverage, but still not nearly enough.
There is a promising new treatment device for tinnitus (developed by u Michigan) that is waiting for FDA approval, really can’t wait.
My mind went off in another direction.
Judging by all of the hype, we were supposed to be blown away by the invention of the century that would change all of human kind…come to find out it wasn’t all humankind, just mall security…
Segway. No one cared.
The Protein Folding Problem has been largely solved.
We can take a string of amino acids and predict the structure with a high degree of accuracy in minutes. This used to take years.
