The brightest take on this week’s science

Scientists think they may have found a "living medication" for osteoporosis.

In a phase 1 clinical trial, patients with advanced osteoporosis were treated with a modified version of their own stem cells, and it significantly strengthened their bones.

The stem cell treatment is based on mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs), which are found in bone marrow and are precursors to cells that create and repair bone.

The trial was small, involving only 10 women.

But these participants experienced far fewer bone fractures in the first six years after treatment, compared to before.

In fact, fragility fractures fell by 94 percent.

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A 3-year-old boy with malignant liver cancer has experienced complete disease regression after receiving an experimental treatment.

The immunotherapy technique took the patient's own immune cells and turned them into potent cancer hunters.

It’s called Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, or CAR T therapy for short.

But while it’s shown great promise for blood cancers, solid tumors are harder to penetrate.

This new case is a success story.

The young boy received two doses of an experimental treatment that was made from his own T cells.

After 12 months, the boy was still disease-free.

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A) Ginger
B) Cholesterol
C) Worm intestines
D) Human placenta

Answer at the bottom.

Teleportation sounds like science fiction, but researchers have shown it works on a small scale.

At nearly the speed of light, the quantum state of one system can be transferred to another system a great distance away.

But so far, the capacity of information that can be shared is highly limited.

Now, a team of physicists led by Jietai Jing of East China Normal University has achieved quantum teleportation across 100 simultaneous channels.

To demonstrate this, they used the quantum information encoded in a 10-by-10-pixel image of the letter "Q".

"As far as we know, it is indeed the largest number of independently addressable quantum teleportation channels ever demonstrated simultaneously," Jing told ScienceAlert.

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Chihuahuas share some genes with wild coyotes (Canis latrans).

The two might have a common ancestor, or maybe they interbred.

Either way, it checks out.

Just look at that fearsome face.

Check out the cute ‘bear’ scientists spotted on Mars.

Microscope answer: Human placenta.

This is a microscopic glimpse of placental tissue, containing tiny, finger-like projections, some of which hold blood vessels. By the end of pregnancy, the fetal capillaries in a fully developed placenta have a combined length of around 320 kilometers (200 miles).