The United Kingdom opened the world’s first coal-fired power station in 1882. On 30th September 2024, 142 years later, its last coal plant shut down. Back in 2014, they were the first country to announce a coal phaseout. Now they're done ahead of schedule. https://buff.ly/3Yefx2z#ShareGoodNewsToo
The UK’s last coal-fired power plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, is set to close at the end of this month, marking the end of a 142-year era of burning coal to generate electricity.
Delighted to share our work developing an mRNA vaccine for C. difficile. This study with Drew Weissman’s lab was co-led by two truly amazing scientists: Alexa Semon from the Zackular lab and Mohamad-Gabriel Alameh from CHOP (formerly Weissman lab)! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is an urgent public health threat with limited preventative options. In this work, we developed a messenger RNA (mRNA)–lipid nanoparticle (LNP) vaccine targeti...
Lead poisoning kills more people than HIV and malaria combined. Now the first-ever global public-private partnership has committed $150 million to end lead poisoning in children in developing countries once and for all. https://buff.ly/3Y7JQrF#ShareGoodNewsToo
Could be a BFD. #ShareGoodNewsToo
Delighted to share our work developing an mRNA vaccine for C. difficile. This study with Drew Weissman’s lab was co-led by two truly amazing scientists: Alexa Semon from the Zackular lab and Mohamad-Gabriel Alameh from CHOP (formerly Weissman lab)! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is an urgent public health threat with limited preventative options. In this work, we developed a messenger RNA (mRNA)–lipid nanoparticle (LNP) vaccine targeti...
Last month the WHO recommended three new regimens for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. It's a big breakthrough—the new regimens allow patients to be cured in nine months with all-oral treatments. https://buff.ly/4dpP5bz#ShareGoodNewsToo
Boston, 19 August 2024 – Today, in a rapid communication, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended 3 new regimens for multidrug- or rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB), which were…
A plan to bring electricity to 300 million Africans by 2030, backed by an initial pledge of $30 billion from the World Bank and the African Development Bank, has kicked off with an assessment of the first potential beneficiaries. https://buff.ly/3Y58PwU#ShareGoodNewsToo
A US company is aiming to make basic manual wheelchairs for $1,000 with delivery times of a few weeks, selling directly to the public. #ShareGoodNewsToonewmobility.com/not-a-wheelc...
What do you get when you add YouTube seed money, state-of-the-art manufacturing techniques and a consumer-first sales model? A wheelchair that could upend the mobility equipment industry.
A 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes has become the first person with the disease to be treated using cells extracted from her own body. A complete reversal of the disease in a patient that previously required substantial amounts of insulin. https://buff.ly/4f32CY3#ShareGoodNewsToo
She is the first person with type 1 diabetes to receive this kind of transplant.