The Major Discoveries That Could Transform the World in the Next Decade

[Judi Lynn]

By Live Science Staff 14 hours ago

Here's what scientists are really excited about.



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The last decade ushered in some truly revolutionary advances in science, from the discovery of the Higgs boson to the use of CRISPR for Sci-Fi esque gene editing. But what are some of the biggest breakthroughs still to come? Live Science asked several experts in their field what discoveries, techniques and developments they're most excited to see emerge in the 2020s.

Medicine: A universal flu vaccine



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The universal flu shot, which has eluded scientists for decades, may be one truly groundbreaking medical advances that could show up in the next 10 years.

"It has sort of become a joke that a universal [flu] vaccine is perennially just five to 10 years away," said Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious-disease specialist and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Baltimore.

But now, it appears that this "may actually be true," Adalja told Live Science. "Various approaches to universal flu vaccines are in advanced development, and promising results are starting to accrue."

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[mopinko]

1. cool stuff, and there is so much more.

i think we are on the verge of at least a big leap in cancer, if not a vaccine based treatment that wipes it out easily.
and autoimmune is on that road, too. lagging a bit, imho, but at this point w can cure them, we just cant do it safely. a safe way to reboot will fix so many.
and genetic testing? the current mayo test has 10k test.

have you seen the netflix series 'diagnosis'? have i asked you that before?
there have been a couple of high tech happy endings, including for epilepsy, which my youngest has a bad case of.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Hadn't heard about Netflix's 'Diagnosis' yet. Don't think you've mentioned it here.

Didn't know what has happened with epilepsy. So many lives affected, what a breakthrough!

Transforming acheivement, thank you.

[mopinko]

4. if you watch it, start w ep 2.

a little girl w a horrible form of epilepsy. super cute, spunky little girl, having seizures every 10 minutes.
docs wanted her to have a hemispherectomy- split her brain in half. the only real treatment, they said.

the idea is about crowdsourcing these mystery cases.
they found a doc who was doing brand new treatment that they call a brain pacemaker. yeah, just what it sounds like.
it didnt make her good as new, but it really helped her, made it way better than cutting her brain in half, and they had hope that she would continue to improve.

episode one was a young lady whose body was eating her muscles. a genetic test showed the problem, and w some dietary changes, she was pretty much fine.

i'm only on 5. i cant wait.

[calimary]

2. Bookmarking.