NEW: Just one faulty gene on chromosome 15 leads to Angelman syndrome, characterized by a happy demeanor and developmental disabilities. A cure is coming, but identifying patients in Hong Kong aand ensuring they can access treatments is hard.
Dear academic journals, if you’re gonna put your articles behind a stupid paywall, at least make sure your stupid website works well enough so that we can buy the research results our tax dollars already paid for. 😤
This article is full of gems, but IMHO this is the best:
But studying solutions rather than focusing on problems is simply not going to rouse the public—or the press. Besides, many mainstream climate scientists tend to view the whole prospect of, say, using technology to adapt to climate change as wrongheaded; addressing emissions is the right approach.
NEW: Nearly two decades in, researchers are still debating which creature is the closest living relative to all animals. Are new methods getting them any closer? Rohini Subrahmanyam asks.
There have been ten new ME/CFS studies and twenty-one new Long Covid studies this week.
Paper five is a preprint study (meaning it has not been peer-reviewed and the science verified) which trials the use of faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) on reducing ME/CFS symptoms.