In a 1st, scientists use designer immune cells to send an autoimmune disease into remission

In a 1st, scientists use designer immune cells to send an autoimmune disease into remission | Hoard of Islamic era gold and silver coins found behind Egyptian temple | Do black holes explode? Created for {EMAIL} | [Web Version]( September 19, 2022 CONNECT WITH LIVESCIENCE  [Facebook]( [Twitter](  [LIVESCIENCE]( Amazing science every day [SIGN UP]( ⋅ [WEBSITE](  [] Top Science News [] [In a 1st, scientists use designer immune cells to send an autoimmune disease into remission]( [In a 1st, scientists use designer immune cells to send an autoimmune disease into remission]( (NANOCLUSTERING/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images) Five patients with hard-to-treat lupus entered remission after scientists tweaked their immune cells using a technique normally used to treat cancer. After the one-time therapy, all five patients with the autoimmune disease stopped their standard treatments and haven't had a relapse. This treatment, known as chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, needs to be tested in larger groups of lupus patients before it can be approved for widespread use. But if the results hold up in larger trials, the therapy could someday offer relief to people with moderate to severe lupus. Full Story: [Live Science]( (9/17) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( Just the Facts, Ma'am "I stopped watching the news, so sick of the bias. Was searching for an alternative that would just tell me WHAT happened, with NO editorializing. I found it. It's called 1440. It assumes you are smart enough to form your own opinions." [Subscribe for free](. ADVERTISEMENT: [] History & Archaeology [] [Hoard of Islamic era gold and silver coins found behind Egyptian temple]( [Hoard of Islamic era gold and silver coins found behind Egyptian temple]( (Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities) Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a nearly 1,000-year-old cache of gold and silver coins behind a temple in Esna, a city located along the Nile River. The hoard, which was discovered by a team of researchers from Egypt's Supreme Council for Archaeology, includes coins minted throughout different parts of the Islamic era, which began in A.D. 610, when Muhammad received his first revelation, and lasted until approximately the 13th century. Full Story: [Live Science]( (9/16) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Life’s Little Mysteries [] [Do black holes explode?]( [Do black holes explode?]( (NASA/JPL-Caltech) Black holes are cosmic vacuum cleaners — massive objects so large that not even light can escape them. Most people imagine black holes do nothing but sit there and devour wandering pieces of gas or dust. But could black holes actually have more interesting interior lives? Could they, for instance, explode? Full Story: [Live Science]( (9/19) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] [How long do new species take to evolve?]( [How long do new species take to evolve?]( (WMay via Getty Images) Charles Darwin famously marveled at the "endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful" produced by evolution, and indeed, Earth today teems with an estimated 1 trillion species. But how long did it take those species to evolve? The answer varies widely across lifeforms, "depending on taxa [type of creature] and environmental conditions," Thomas Smith, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Los Angeles, told Live Science. It ranges from human-observable timescales to tens of millions of years. 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The probe, which launched into close orbit around the sun in February 2020, first spotted the abnormality in our star's magnetic field in March this year. Using its Metis coronagraph to block out the glare of the sun's disk and focus on its edges, the probe captured images of a puzzling S-shaped bend in the tendrils of wispy plasma streaming out from the sun's corona, or upper atmosphere. Full Story: [Live Science]( (9/16) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Daily Quiz [] POLL QUESTION: What major factor limits how quickly new species of animal can form? 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