Day 3916: Miracle and an Idea.

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A medical miracle

A team of doctors in Boston successfully performed brain surgery on an infant girl -- before she was even born. Kenyatta Coleman and her husband Derek, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, learned late in her pregnancy that their baby had a rare and dangerous brain condition known as vein of Galen malformation. When the couple learned of a clinical trial run by a trio of Boston-area hospitals to address such a condition, they were in. Despite serious potential risks for mom and baby, surgeons were able to successfully perform the ultrasound-guided procedure in March. In utero surgery has been used for other issues before, but this was among the first for such a rare and delicate condition. Two days later, Denver Coleman was born, weighing 4 pounds and 1 ounce. Doctors say she's doing very well, and there's no sign she needs any further intervention. “She’s shown us from the very beginning that she was a fighter,” Kenyatta said. “She’s demonstrated … 'Hey, I wanna be here.'”

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A Bright Idea?

 

 Every year, the textile industry uses 1.3 trillion gallons of water to dye garments. Unfortunately, most of this water, loaded with toxic substances, ends up back in rivers and streams. However, researchers at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, have created a material that they say could help sop up this problem -- literally. This new nanomaterial consists of tiny sand-like grains, only visible to the naked eye in clusters, which collect pollutants on their surfaces and in their pores. Scientists took inspiration from the glue-like substance that mussels use to stick themselves to rocks. If such a solution can be put into play on a large scale, there's hope that different compounds can be produced to clean up even more water-ruining pollutants.

 

 

 

A great 2+minute video, Paper Airplanes, here.

 

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