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Turn off the cable news, tune out the doom and gloom — and get ready for your weekly dose of good news. Here are this week’s best feel-good stories from Yahoo News partners.A zoo located less than 3 miles from the Irish Sea on England's west coast has gone viral for its quirky job posting, receiving hundreds of applications for a recently advertised"seagull deterrent" position,"As a seaside resort, Blackpool is not short of seagulls.
Any interested candidate should be friendly, energetic, flexible, outgoing, “an excellent flapper” and “comfortable wearing a bird costume.” The zoo says it's tried several unsuccessful techniques to scare off the unwelcome avian visitors, including eagle-shaped kites and large statues of various birds of prey, so it's hoping the new “deterrents” will do the trick.A drug used to treat patients with HIV may also help treat neurodegenerative conditions like dementia after a study published on Wednesday showed promise in mice,A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge in the U.K.
The treated mice also had less protein build-up than the untreated ones. Neurodegenerative issues largely stem from the body’s inability to clear misfolded proteins out of the brain, and as they build up, these proteins can kill brain cells and trigger diseases such as Alzheimer’s. “Maraviroc may not itself turn out to be the magic bullet, but it shows a possible way forward,” senior study author David Rubinsztein said. “During the development of this drug as a HIV treatment, there were a number of other candidates that failed along the way because they were not effective against HIV. We may find that one of these works effectively in humans to prevent neurodegenerative diseases.
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