Little girls, rare brain tumors, and meme coins; The heartwarming story behind the surge of MIRA coin

The sinister cryptocurrency market has shown a warm side today.

Little girl and rare brain tumor

A netizen named Siqi Chen shared the story of his young daughter Mira's struggle against a rare brain tumor on a social media platform yesterday.

Siqi Chen It is pointed out that his youngest daughter was diagnosed with a rare enamel epithelial craniopharyngioma on September 23 this year. Although this type of tumor is classified as benign in medicine, it is located in a dangerous area of the brain and often accompanies a series of serious health problems, posing significant challenges to the patient's life.

However, due to the limited number of cases, the medical community has long lacked resources for research on this type of tumor, resulting in very limited available treatment options. In addition, the location of Mira tumor is adjacent to the myopic nerve and hypothalamus, so standard therapies such as surgery and radiation therapy cannot be performed.

So Siqi Chen found Dr. Todd Hankinson from the Hankinson Laboratory at the University of Colorado in the United States. This is the only laboratory in North America dedicated to pediatric craniopharyngioma. Dr. Hanjinsen and his team have conducted a series of clinical trials to explore how new drugs can slow down tumor growth and improve patients' quality of life.

Despite some progress in research, the laboratory still faces the challenge of insufficient funding. Siqi Chen We call on all sectors of society to lend a helping hand and support the research of Hankinson Laboratory, as every penny of funding will be directly used to develop new treatment plans, benefiting more children like Mira.

We hope that Mira's story is not just a sad case, but a symbol of scientific hope

In addition to raising funds on the traditional crowdfunding platform gofundme, Siqi Chen has also released his wallet addresses for Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, and other platforms, accepting donations from all walks of life.

Magic Internet Currency

However, based on this story, some netizens created the meme coin MIRA and sent half of its circulation to Siqi Chen's wallet address. After that, MIRA The token has skyrocketed all the way, and although Siqi Chen has sold some of his holdings in the past two hours to donate to the laboratory, he always consults the community before each sale to see if they agree to its sale, and the community rarely agrees.

Despite multiple sell offs, at the time of writing this article, Siqi Chen The MIRA token in the wallet is still worth more than 15 million dollars, which makes Siqi Chen exclaim the magic of Internet currency.

At the time of writing this article, the market value of MIRA token has reached 43 million US dollars.

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