We seem to be in the middle of an extravaganza of medical research miracles, holding out hope where there wasn’t much before now.

The University of California just shared this amazing story about how UC San Francisco’s researchers are paving the way for a cure for multiple sclerosis in our lifetimes.

It was a discovery that grew out of the revolutionary new theory about MS that they developed – a theory so revolutionary that the main federal funding agency rejected it as ‘biologically implausible’ in the late 1990s when the team sought funding for a clinical trial of a new medicine, rituximab.