GOOD NEWS! For the first time ever, Huntington's disease has been successfully treated. A groundbreaking new miRNA treatment, AMT-130, slowed the progression of the disease by 75%. These results are likely to support the first approval of a genetic treatment for the rare neurodegenerative condition.

This is so good to see - a young baby has had a life changing treatable disease diagnosed early due to broad based (healthy baby) genome sequencing. He has a rare eye cancer gene, and has immediately been put into the effective treatment pathway.

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

During the night one of our cats has got into this pack of cheese topped bread rolls and eaten the cheese off the top

What huge, long reaching, expensive and rigorous processes and legislation have been put in place in the intervening 60-70 years, specifically to avoid that situation happening again?!

The true purpose of Bluesky has been revealed and it's Michael Stipe telling us the lyrics to It's The End Of The World As We Know It

I picked a fight with some hydrogen that's 93 million miles away. I lost. On my hatred of the sun, and the horror of sunburn. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

They all look like they're embarrassed about having been in a boyband and have overcorrected horribly.

Enjoyed that his characters also died from a massive heart attack in The OC AND Ugly Betty. Number 1 chest-clutching actor on television.

People are always breeding miniature versions of dogs, but i would like some giant ones. I want a dachshund the size of a Toyota Yaris

At a certain point, it's not really an aircraft "carrier" anymore

Rhubarb crumble for pudding after Sunday dinner this evening. As ever, I wonder who it was, having established the leaves were poisonous, and the bit under the ground was poisonous, said 'lads, hear me out, how about we try the bit in between?' And who agreed?!

thinking about the amount of context necessary to explain to someone from 2010 what people are protesting with signs reading "cheap eggs not measles" or "tax the rich, not the penguins"

Needed to show a QR code at the post office to send a return but because this was the last saved image on my phone this is what I showed them

Here a wee thread for Ōtautahi people or people who grew up here before the quakes. It’s from an exhibition of miniature buildings by an artist called Ghostcat and it was held in the quakestruck Christ Church Cathedral and I was literally moved to tears. This is the old police kiosk in the Square.

"I was eating Cheerios and then bye bye tooth" - my son, to government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

An unethical and absurd move ignoring the reality that these communities face higher risks and earlier onset of bowel cancer. It's not just immoral, it's reckless and deadly. What next? Move infant vaccination to mid-life to make it fair for older people? FFS! e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

Live your life in such a way as to avoid the debate following your media appearances being whether it's more appropriate to compare you to Chamberlain or Mosley.

In your opinion, what’s a cover version of a song that not only holds up to the original but wildly exceeds it? Here’s mine (and I can't believe I forgot this the other day - it's AMAZING) www.youtube.com/watch?v=S70x...

Forewarned is forearmed…😉🦭

Repurpose Christmas cards to save money

anagramming these “merry christmas” blocks is the only thing my husband has done the entire time we’ve been at his mom’s house

So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/

My favourite insult

"You've got big dreams? You want fame? Well, fame costs. And right here's where you start paying - in sweat."

Love them and they look hot also this could be a scene from a movie where they are uptight people who’ve swapped bodies with teenagers and they’ve taken the chance to dress them cool