Rachel Fieldhouse in Nature:
Amid wars, AI doom and a super El Niño, good news can seem in short supply. But it is there if you go looking. In Nature’s latest collection of stories selected to bring readers joy, learn about a country that has reversed its rates of diabetes and umbrella that keep corals cool. But first, you might have heard about reports of the first new wild cat species in a century, announced last month1. The spotted feline, called Leopardus tilcayo, was found in the forested Yungas region of Bolivia.
…A drug derived from existing HIV treatments stopped mice developing symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS). The drug, called kamuvudine-9 (K-9), also reversed paralysis and restored neurological function in rodents over two weeks of treatment7. Mice given K-9 had less severe symptoms than did those given saline or fingolimod, an existing MS treatment.
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