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Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet for Over Two Years

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Cancer researchers made a groundbreaking discovery by developing a sort-of “Ultimate antibody” — a single treatment that has been shown to kill every type of cancer it was tested on.

The latest developments are based on research that began a decade ago at Stanford School of Medicine, where researchers discovered a link between cancer cells and high levels of a protein called CD47 while studying leukemia. Irving Weissman, the biologist behind the breakthrough, continued to study CD47 and found a CD47-blocking antibody that could cure some cases of leukemia by stimulating the immune system to recognize cancer cells as invaders.

Now, Weissman has established a link between CD47 and most of primary cancers that affect humans, finding that cancer cells always had higher levels of CD47 than healthy cells. The inordinate amounts of CD47 produced by the cancer cells effectively trick the immune system into not destroying the cancer cells.

“What we’ve shown is that CD47 isn’t just important on leukemias and lymphomas,” says Weissman, according to Science magazine. “It’s on every single human primary tumor that we tested.”

Weissman and his team used that observation to develop an antibody that blocks cancer cells’ CD47, causing the body’s immune system to attack the cancerous cells.

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They’ve been watching it already in the Southern Hemisphere. In March, Comet PANSTARRS should come into view for northern skywatchers. Viewing guide here.

NASA Reveals Details of Russian Meteor Explosion [clickable video at the link]

What’s the biggest thing in the universe? That would be a cluster of quasars so large it would take a vehicle traveling at the speed of light 4 billion years to cross.

The structure, known as a Large Quasar Group, or LQG, is so massive scientists say it may challenge a fundamental principle of cosmology, laid out by Albert Einstein, which states that when viewed on a sufficiently large scale, the properties of the universe are the same for all observers.

“While it is difficult to fathom the scale of this LQG, we can say quite definitely it is the largest structure ever seen in the entire universe,” astronomer Roger Clowes, with the University of Central Lancashire, said in a statement.

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Jaw-dropping New Image from Gemini

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