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xkcd #3056: RNA (xkcd.com)

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

https://explainxkcd.com/3056/

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[–] ToiletFlushShowerScream 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 13 points 1 day 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.

[–] d00phy 15 points 1 day ago

I read this and I hear my dad bitching about how RNA vaccines “haven’t really been tested on anyone!”