Good News Notes: “One individual treated with the broadly neutralizing antibody 3BNC117 plus the latency-reversing agent romidepsin remains in remission nearly four years after stopping antiretroviral therapy, according to study results presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2022). He and other study participants who received the antibody showed enhanced HIV-specific CD8 T-cell responses….
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Elementary students recognized as heroes for helping teacher in crisis
Good News Notes: “First graders at an Alabama elementary school are being hailed as heroes for taking quick action to help their teacher during a medical emergency. “It was scary for me because I knew that they were going to have to see something probably that they didn’t need to,” said Tracy Hodges, a first-grade teacher at…
Failed Clinical Trial Leads to Scientific Breakthrough: Investigating Cancer Drug Toxicity Leads to Critical Discovery
Good News Notes: “It’s not often that a failed clinical trial leads to a scientific breakthrough. When patients in the UK started experiencing negative side effects during a cancer immunotherapy trial, researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and University of Liverpool went back, examined the data, and worked with…
St. Thomas, Ont. woman makes $1M donation to reach city’s animal centre and dog park budget goal
Good News Notes: “St. Thomas City council is expected to approve a new animal centre and dog park Tuesday after a massive donation from a local businesswoman. After the city required private donations or fundraising of $1 million to reach the $2.5 million goal set out in the strategic plan, Sara Teare stepped up and…
Group to Give Thousands to Two Nonprofits
Good News Notes: “A group of women have picked two local nonprofits to receive $10,000 each. 100+ Women Who Care Grand Traverse and Leelanau County is a giving group that’s been helping local nonprofits since December 2011. The group meets four times a year and each woman gives $100 at each meeting totaling more than…
MIT Scientists Develop New Regenerative Drug That Reverses Hearing Loss
Good News Notes: “The biotechnology company Frequency Therapeutics is seeking to reverse hearing loss — not with hearing aids or implants, but with a new kind of regenerative therapy. The company uses small molecules to program progenitor cells, a descendant of stem cells in the inner ear, to create the tiny hair cells that allow…
Scientists Rewind The Clock of Human Skin Cells to Make Them Act 30 Years Younger
Good News Notes: “It’s not quite the mythical fountain of youth but it is, perhaps, a start: Scientists have managed to engineer human skin cells to reverse 30 years of aging, resetting them to a much more youthful state in terms of certain molecular measurements. While it’s very early days for the research – so…
Nonprofit fundraising to send Hayward boy battling rare cancer to Disney World
Good News Notes: “A Hayward boy is in the fight of his life, battling a particularly resistant form of cancer. Now a nonprofit is asking for the public’s help to send him on the trip of a lifetime to Disney World. They call him “Hank the Tank,” otherwise known as Henry Carpenter. At 4 years old, he’s…
Ukrainians try to rescue exotic animals from abandoned zoo
Good News Notes: “A group of Ukrainian volunteers is attempting to rescue animals from a private zoo near the capital that was abandoned after the Russian army bombed and occupied the area. Vitaly Mukhanov told ABC News that he had volunteered to help bring supplies to Ukrainian soldiers when he came across the Yasnohorodka family…
Mashburn’s Miracle: Amarillo teen defies odds, recovers after 25 minutes without pulse
Good News Notes: “A parent’s worst nightmare became reality when their 18-year-old son unexpectedly collapsed at home. Jakin Mashburn was not breathing. “I was in my room listening to an audio book and heard a loud bang and found Jakin in his bathroom, collapsed on the floor,” said Carrie Mashburn, Jakin’s mom. Carrie called 911…