The Evolution of Sponges and Their Immortality

Today, you’ll learn about how alien-like life figured out a bizarre way to survive at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, a donut-shaped machine that just set a bunch of records in the world of nuclear fusion and how babies are becoming superheroes in the fight against cancer and HIV.

Learn about how alien-like life figured out how to survive at the bottom of the Arctic ocean. 

'Alien-like' life thrives on dead matter in Arctic deep by Helen Briggs

• https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60308650

Fossil-eating sponges discovered in the Arctic by James Ashworth

• https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2022/february/fossil-eating-sponges-discovered-Arctic.html

Giant sponge gardens discovered on seamounts in the Arctic deep sea by Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/02/220208113915.htm

890-Million-Year-Old Fossills Are Sponges, Oldest Animals: Study by Abby Olena

• https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/890-million-year-old-fossils-are-sponges-oldest-animals-study-69031

Deep-sea sponges: Biotechnology and the blue economy by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

• https://www.fao.org/3/cb2738en/cb2738en.pdf

This donut isn’t what you think - it could set records in the world of nuclear fusion. 

A giant donut-shaped machine just proved a near-limitless clean power source is possible by Danya Gainor and Angela Dewan

• https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/uk/nuclear-fusion-climate-energy-scn-intl/index.htm

Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by Jonathan Amos

• https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60312633

Nuclear-fusion reactor smashes energy record by Elizabeth Gibney

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00391-1

The new heroes in the fight against HIV are not who you expect: they’re babies! 

A Woman Is Cured of H.I.V. Using a Novel Treatment by Apoorva Mandavilli

• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/health/hiv-cure-cord-blood.html

Testing cord blood transplants as a cure for leukemia — and HIV by Sabin Russell

• https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2022/03/hiv-cure-cord-blood.html

Progress in HIV/AIDS cure: N.Y. woman is free of HIV for 4 years by Leila Fadel interviews Dr. Carlos del Rio

• https://www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1082079030/progress-in-hiv-aids-cure-n-y-woman-is-free-of-hiv-for-4-years

A third person has been cured of HIV, scientists report by Nicoletta Lanese 

• https://www.livescience.com/third-person-cured-hiv-stem-cell-transplant-from-cord-blood

About HIV/Aids and Treatment by the CDC

• https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/whatishiv.html
• https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/livingwithhiv/treatment.html

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