2040s: RNA formed the basis for life each of the five known times it arose on the early Earth.
I read this and I hear my dad bitching about how RNA vaccines “haven’t really been tested on anyone!”
xkcd #3056: RNA
Submitted 1 year ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to xkcd@lemmy.world
ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This feels so familiar. Coming from a poor rural education to being involved in the latest cancer research I feel like I have personally experienced these paradigm shifts. Well done xkcd for illustrating it
deltapi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The advances in cancer research and treatment in the last 40 years is crazy too.
In grade six (80s) I lost one of my cohorts to leukemia. It was a long road for her to her passing, with the stereotypical no hair and sick every day looking worse and worse.
My neighbor’s grade 6 kid has a friend with leukemia and now they’re “just” sick “every once in a while” because they had chemo the previous day and they’re supposed to avoid sports, but is expected to be fine before they go to high school. Wild.