In today’s Good News, a German woman is still in remission from three autoimmune diseases, 15 months after receiving a cell therapy treatment targeting her T-cells. And in Hungary, trash that can’t be recycled and would otherwise languish in landfills is being transformed into a component used to make concrete.

Catherine Garcia
The Week Digital

A nasal DNA vaccine against tuberculosis (TB) is being developed by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine. This vaccine could give a boost to people with drug-resistant TB, as it fuses together two TB genes with the “goal of directing the immune system to fight drug-tolerant bacterial survivors,” said Good News Network. TB is among the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, and the World Health Organization is calling on scientists to create new therapeutic vaccines.

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A German woman’s three life-threatening autoimmune diseases were put into remission after a CAR-T cell therapy treatment. Her conditions, including autoimmune haemolytic anemia (AIHA), were caused by “wayward” B-cells, which produce antibodies, said The Guardian. With standard treatments no longer working, doctors extracted her white blood cells, isolated the T-cells and engineered them to recognize CD19, a protein found on B-cells. Once these T-cells were reinfused into the patient’s body, they began “destroying” the “rogue” B-cells, and within weeks her conditions improved.

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The Hungarian company Makropa takes waste that can’t be recycled and turns it into concrete for roads and buildings. Waste Light Concrete is a “blend of binding additive, shredded waste and standard concrete-mixing ingredients” and can contain materials like sawdust, cigarette butts and rigid plastic, said Good News Network. The product is made in a way that allows it to “maintain its concrete chemistry,” so it’s “more durable and longer lasting” and can be used for more applications.

Through his “Granborghini” initiative, Mark Cody takes elderly people for joyrides around Sheffield, England, in his Lamborghini, reminding them that life doesn’t have to slow down with age. Cody said he “treasures” spending time with his passengers and considers his free service a way of combating loneliness among the elderly. Buying the car “felt like a dream,” he said, but there’s “way more joy out of sharing it in the world.”

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