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hello lovely people let's rise up lock
in and take the next 10 minutes to fuel
our minds it's Thursday February 1st I'm
KY wire this is CNN 10 happy Friday Eve
February marks two years since Russian
President Vladimir Putin first ordered
his troops into Ukraine for what he
called a special military operation to
demilitarize the country according to us
intelligence assessment Russia has lost
87% of the 360,000 active duty ground
troops it had prior to the start of the
war but they persist Ukraine remains
heavily dependent upon support in the
form of funding and Munitions from its
Western allies including the United
States but further us support is not
guaranteed as Congress remains divided
on sending more taxpayer dollars to fund
Ukraine's war efforts as CNN's Fred pin
explains the war is as in intense as
ever and seemingly far from
over in 2024 Russia's war against
Ukraine is as brutal as it ever has been
both sides are still taking heavy
casualties and the battles are ferocious
the action has somewhat shifted though
from the south of the country more
towards the southeast and the east of
the country the Russians have Unleashed
another massive aerial campaign against
sites here in Ukraine using drones
ballistic missiles and also cruise
missiles the ukrainians though now also
o fighting back hitting some Targets in
Russia like for instance the belgrad
region where there have been some
evacuations Western military support for
Ukraine will continue to be essential
for the country but it is far from a
certain thing especially aid from the
United States where US Congress still
has not okayed further military aid for
Ukraine there is the European Union
where a decision on further military aid
was blocked by the hungarians so it's
unclear when exactly that could come
through even though the the countries
themselves the single countries could
continue to give Ukraine military aid
and are continuing to do so the Russians
certainly seem to have replenished their
ranks after taking heavy losses in 2023
the Russians also appear to have new
tanks and armored vehicles one of the
other things that we're seeing is that
the Russians are firing a lot of
artillery on the front lines and a
different picture for the ukrainians
especially ammunition is something that
they're having a lot of trouble with
they certainly need those
replenishment
Pop Quiz Hot Shot which of these words
is associated with pigs Boral Bine padm
or por
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sign if you pondered poor sign put your
hoves up while boral's a type of dog
Bine relates to cattle and padm are
thick skinned hoofed animals like
elephants rhinos and hippos por sign
relates to or suggests
Piggies for our next story we turn to a
controversial solution to an ongoing
Health dilemma one for which pigs may be
the answer we're talking organ
transplants now each organ inside our
body has a specific function right and
sometimes due to disease accident or
other reasons it doesn't work properly
and needs replacement so during organ
transplantation surgeons carefully
remove a healthy organ from a donor and
place it in the body of someone in need
it can be difficult to find a matching
organ as there is a big gap between
supply and demand for organs needed to
save lives but the company EEG Genesis
is working on a solution that might end
organ shortage in the future on their
research Farm they're raising pigs that
could become organ donors in the future
CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay
Gupta got a first look at a facility few
other people have seen
before these pigs could one day provide
a nearly endless supply of organs to
save
humans Mike Curtis is my guide today he
is CEO of e Genesis that's a company
devoted to raising pigs to try and solve
the organ shortage crisis everything's
controlled like all the feed is clean
water's clean as you can see the staff
is clean we tried to maintain a very
clean environment here and I should just
point out that I walked into a room
turned on a filter essentially clean the
air for 5 minutes before I could then go
shower that's why my hair is wet i' I've
washed myself I put on everything new
here including underwear socks shoes
everything is different just to be in
this room gives you an idea of just how
clean it is in here and how important
that is it's more than I typically do to
prep for the operating room all of it to
protect the pigs from us all right I got
to tell you I did not know what to
expect it's powerful just to be here
with these pigs this pig has 69
different Gene edits making it a among
the most genetically modified mammals on
the
planet they do all of this with the help
of crisper the gene editing tool that
allows scientists to manipulate the
cell's DNA knocking out or adding in
genes in this case to make a pig's
organs more compatible with the human
recipient we've selected the Yucatan
mini pig because fully grown they're
about 70 kilos 15 lb right so the the
organs are correctly sized for human
recipient in January of 2022 for the
first time in history a team at the
University of Maryland Medical Center
transplanted a genetically modified pig
heart into a living human being it was
allowed by the fda's compassionate use
pathway for experimental treatments
something used when a patient has no
other options left right A patient
imminently facing death why wouldn't you
try but how far are we still to this
becoming a reality I think for the right
patient we're going to see in the next
couple couple of years oh it's it's
amazing that could save human lives it's
really extraordinary science I mean the
culmination of all these Nobel Prize
discoveries but it comes with its
ethical challenges as well how much
should we be manipulating The genome and
of another species how much should we be
relying on animals to preserve and
protect human life I mean these are
ethical challenges and even the facility
that you just saw there we couldn't tell
you exactly where it was located because
there have been security concerns but at
the same time this is happening and as
you heard it's happening pretty quickly
perhaps over the next couple of years
we're going to hear more and more about
animal organs being transplanted into
humans let's turn now to another
controversial Tech innovation in health
Elon Musk company neuralink implanted a
chip in a human brain for the first time
this week neuralink has been working
toward using implants to connect the
human brain to a computer for half a
decade and the company says their
current goal is to Grant people the
ability to control a computer cursor or
keyboard using their thoughts alone Tech
reporter s McBride shares the scoop on
exactly what this coin-sized device can
do so this is a tiny device about the
size of a quarter with a bunch of
threads coming off it with tiny tiny
electrodes attached to the threads and
the idea is surgeons go into somebody's
skull open up their Dura and their brain
put the device in there make sure the
electrodes go down a few millimeters
into the brain sew everything back up
and there's a battery pack in it it will
um recharge wirelessly and it will
communicate wirelessly with an outside
device that can control say a computer
cursor or an iPad Elon Musk says the
inaugural patient is recovering well but
offered few details besides a QR code
that adults can scan to sign up for the
surgery the Tweet also encouraged
patients with spinal cord injuries or
ALS to apply it's unclear how
significant this advancement is
scientifically but this could be a
milestone for the Innovative company's
efforts to create lifechanging
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technology today's story getting a 10
out of 10 reports of a great white shark
giving birth in the wild for the very
first time scientists believe sharks
first appeared on the earth 455 million
years ago so it's pretty remarkable that
this could be a first the footage you're
seeing right here shot by a drone off
the coast of Southern California might
be the first sighting of a great white
shark newborn baby in the wild it was
recorded by Wildlife filmmaker Carlos
Ghana and doctoral biology student
Philip Sterns who recorded their
observations in a peer-reviewed study
published this week they admit there
needs to be a additional evidence to
confirm we are indeed looking at a
newborn great white shark the study
suggests that an alternative explanation
could be that we're looking at a shark
with an unknown skin disorder a baby
shark is called a pup did you know all
right baby shout out time now let's send
some love to Lebanon Connecticut and the
perfect pupils at Lebanon Middle School
Panthers put your paws up and this shout
out goes to the blue streaks of
Harrisonburg High School in Harrisonburg
Virginia rise up thanks for learning
with me today let's do it again tomorrow
shall we I'm KY wire and we are CNN
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