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Today you learn about how researchers may have figured out a way to cure the common cold,

what exactly happened when the dinosaur killing asteroid struck the Earth, and

why researchers have been putting beatboxers in a real-time MRI machine.

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Scientists may have figured out a way to cure the common cold and as reported by

futurity a new study suggests the solution could be as simple as

temporarily disabling a single protein inside our cells.

So you're talking about literally the cure for the common cold.

Right, and we're not there yet, but you know, they're getting closer.

Right, like the thing you hear about in sci-fi, it's like, oh, we hear the common cold hundreds of years ago right

like this is a thing we might be able to do maybe and by cold you mean colds because

there's a bunch of different types really right? Right when you say common cold you're

actually talking about a bunch of

different viruses. By cold, I mean non-influenza related upper respiratory

infection, of course, right? We all know that. So at least half of all colds are the result of rhinovirus infections and those

fall under roughly 160 known types. And while they're common, the challenge to cure them is not easy.

I mean, there are so many of them and to make

matters worse rhinoviruses are quick to develop drug resistance and to evade

vaccines. But Stanford University researchers have found a way to stop a broad range of enteroviruses,

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