The first CRISPR gene editing treatment for sickle cell disease was approved. An amazing start to what I hope is a future of cures for various genetic diseases.
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The FDA also approved the world's first RSV vaccine. If you've noticed a lot of ad-campaigns for it this year, that's why.
Humanity was able to experience Baldur's Gate 3.
I've just started it and my party died basically right after getting on land to those brain creatures.
I'm loving it.
I almost died there too on my first playthrough. Those things are tough when you're level one!
More importantly, IMO: The Talos Principle 2
It snuck up on me. I love the first game, completed it and the dlc 100%. The first time I heard anything about the sequel was less than a week before launch. I broke the sacred code and preordered. I don't have much time to play, but I'm making my way through the gate puzzles now.
Well I work in cybersecurity so everyday is a new year
Is this a joke about every day being a 0-day?
I'm so tired.
some bro, same
I have been really appreciating open source software this year. I always preferred FOSS over the alternatives (Firefox, Thunderbird, Libre Office etc) but I tried to use it for as much as I could this year, even professionally.
Haven't bootet into my Windows partition with Adobe Cloud for months now, it's almost exclusively Inkscpape, Scribus, Blender and Krita on Fedora and I love it! I'm also slowly, slowly getting into Godot which seems like another piece of amazing software.
Sure there are some (very) rough edges here and there and I will have fire up Illustrator or Unity (π€’) at some point when clients demand it but I'm pretty amazed at how well it's going.
Welp, sending this is totally gonna jinx it but whatevs π
Godot is definitely a major highlight. I would love to start using it, but I have too many other things to learn first
The other day I was trying to get an empty vr project to run in unity. After half a day I just gave up. There's just so many options and packages and license agreements. I'm gonna switch to Godot and Steam index. Even if it's a lot of work I know I can share it with others.
They could have just consulted Dory.
Maybe not a breakthrough compared to some of the other comments but home assistant got local voice control this year. For the price of a raspberry pi and a 13 dollar microphone you can have a completely local home automation system controlled by your voice. You can even hook it up to a LLM like chat gpt if you want via a different phrase to do some fun party tricks
John Green and Nerdfighteria was able to pressure Johnson and Johnson to give millions access to life saving tuberculosis medication
I love how war-driven John Green is against tuberculosis
We started deploying malaria vaccines!
Right on!
Kissinger's death primarily.
There was a breakthrough in cat medicine research that is showing promising results in doubling the lifespan of cats.
Edit: Sorry for leaving y'all in suspense, I didn't remember exactly what it was at the time of commenting, but I found it https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/features/z1304_00039.html
Please elaborate/link, I'd be very interested to read about this.
Yeah, I'm piling up here, with the same request, link OP!
So it prolonges lifespan in cats with kidney disease.
Good for the cats but it's not prolonging a healthy cats lifespan it seems.
Most cats do die of kidney related issues, so by addressing that very common cause of death with cats, you're effectively doubling the average lifespan still.
Fair enough. A shame it doesn't transpose to the human condition.
Like weβre talking from 14-18 to 28-36ish???
That was a super interesting read, thank you for sharing it!
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A multi-material 3D inkjet printer. Most of the rest of science news too.
We have just set up a fund for poor countries effected by climate change.
We are getting very close to approval of Melanoma vaccines. https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/14/health/moderna-merck-melanoma-vaccine-immunotherapy/index.html
For those not aware, Melanomas are not only one of the deadliest and most common cancers, it isn't really very treatable with chemotherapies or radiation. And yes, Fuck cancer - we're coming for you, bitch!
The end-of-year numbers aren't in yet, but 2023 should be the year that wind and solar finally generate more electricity than coal here in the US.
https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/BTL/2023/02-genmix/article.php
For new generation projects coming online in 2023, 86% of the electricity is from non-fossil sources. The generation capacity that was retired in 2023 was all fossil based.
https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1304-august-21-2023-2023-non-fossil-fuel-sources-will-account-86-new