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ChatGPT, Obesity Drugs, Exoplanet Images, and Medical Miracles: The Most Amazing Breakthroughs of 2022

Plain English with Derek Thompson

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Multiple Sclerosis

If multiple sclerosis is caused by E-B-V, it raises the possibility that maybe a lot of the diseases that we think of as autoimmune, maybe they are. "Pathogenic disease" means it's a disease that comes from a bacteria or virus. We should be like screening their blood and other bodily fluids for, and just like genetic sequence, everything you find, right? If we could genetic sequence everything we find in all of these patients, that might lead us to some more discoveries," he says.

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