xkcd #3056: RNA
xkcd #3056: RNA
2040s: RNA formed the basis for life each of the five known times it arose on the early Earth.
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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
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.