Not All News is Bad!

September 9, 2021 · The Kidney Project earned a $650,000 award for a successful demonstration of its artificial kidney

Source: The Kidney Project successfully tests a prototype bioartificial kidney

Of course this is some time off for real-world use, but it still makes me feel like the world of Star Trek may be here sooner than we think.

Mesa Farms, a cheese farm in Caineville, Utah, is renowned for its farming methods and giving back to the community.

Source: Culinary community helps cheese farm that lost goats in Hanksville floods

The key word? Community. Love it.

When they met for the first time, they both broke down in tears. Dashauna Priest, 21, embraced her pen pal Frank Grasberger, 95.

Source: As a child, she wrote to a WWII vet. He carried the letter everywhere, and 12 years later, they finally met.

How cool.

For a half century, the men Jim Coffey fought alongside in Vietnam thought he was dead. When he walked into a golf club in Myrtle Beach over the weekend, his Army buddies were never more happy to see a ghost.

Source: The guy who everybody thought was dead – The Boston Globe

Cool story.

London-based Solar Water PLC signed an agreement with the Saudi Arabian government to build the “first desalination plant with solar dome technology.”

Source: Solar Domes Could Desalinate Seawater at a Commercial Scale

Recovering potable water is so incredibly important. I love seeing this, and other, experimental techniques being tested.

A team of investigators from Tel Aviv University (TAU) has succeeded in restoring brain trauma by hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). This is the first time that non-drug therapy has been proven effective in preventing the core biological processes responsible for the development of Alzheimer’s disease.

Source: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy reverses hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia

Another promising treatment.

Addy Newman-Ting’s book ‘Finding the Language’ is being published through UNESCO’s Voices of Future Generations project.

Source: 11-year-old B.C. girl publishes Indigenous language book after winning UNESCO writing contest

Very cool. Preserving and raising awareness of possibly lost or soon-to-be lost indigenous languages.

Researchers from Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania developed a method that can predict Alzheimer’s disease with an accuracy of over 99 %.

Source: Algorithm developed by Lithuanian researchers can predict possible Alzheimer’s with nearly 100 per cent accuracy

Because of social media, the word “algorithm” has become almost a dirty word. Here’s a more promising use of the term. Very cool if accurate.

A Missouri dog has won American Humane’s “Service Dog of the Year”. Sobee, from central Missouri’s Holts Summit, is now in the running for the organization’s top title – the “Hero Dog Award”. The boxer mix is competing alongside six other amazing canines for the award. Sobee was rescued in 2016 by K9s on the…

Source: Once days away from being euthanized, Missouri dog competes for national “Hero Dog Award” – Missourinet

Definitely  a winner.

The idea for the clinic came from a young man with Down syndrome who has a fear of needles, said Dr. Karen McNeil, a family doctor who works at the teaching clinic.

Source: Therapy dogs to help people with needle anxiety at COVID-19 vaccine clinic

I’ve wondered how people with a classic fear of needles were doing. I love this approach.