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MSc in Immunology and Global Health; BSc in Neuroscience.
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Hibernating brown bears rarely suffer from blood clots despite 6 months of immobilization.
A new Science study has revealed a factor that appears to protect the animals against this immobility-associated thrombosis. Learn more: https://t.co/q4bMdxlPTU, https://t.co/z2dnQ2CAkD
Someone actually went ahead and called their journal “Nature Cell and Science” because they know people will submit their work there so that they can say they’ve published in Nature Cell and Science 🤦♂️
Let's talk about radiotrophic fungi.
I want to start with the most surprising fact about them: they don't just SURVIVE in high radiation environments, they grow at *FOUR TIMES* the rate they would in background radiation.
Our best guess is they're "eating" radiation.
🇺🇸This month marks the end of a recent measles outbreak among children in central Ohio, USA.
❌ 85 cases (mostly under the age of 5)
🏥 36 children were hospitalized (thankfully, none died)
What was the common denominator?
The kids had not been vaccinated.
The HSE has “no vision” for the digitisation of the health service and efforts to change this are being impeded by “bad actors”, according to its recently-departed head of digital transformation (1/5)
Engineering live tumor cells to secrete IFN-beta and GM-CSF, researchers present a #CancerVaccine that safely and directly targets tumors and stimulates antitumor immunity in mice with #glioblastoma. @ScienceTM https://t.co/ZcUkRMZTLK
Exxon’s internal documents and research publications show that scientists working for the company between 1977 and 2003 accurately forecasted the rate at which global average temperatures would rise as a result of excess carbon emissions https://t.co/AK0fw9Mo91
Earlier this year, @TheLancet published a report revealing the true impact of antimicrobial resistance around the world.
TL;DR — It's bad. But we know how to solve it. ⤵️🧵
[1/5] #WAAW2022
Earlier today crews responded to a house fire in Dillons Cross 🚒
Crews extinguished the fire and searched the smoke-filled property and rescued an unresponsive dog 🐶
‘Max’ was given oxygen and was then brought to a local vet for treatment 🏥
Thankfully he’s now on the mend
🔥Breaking🔥
WHO releases first-ever list of health-threatening fungi
WHO fungal priority pathogens list to guide research, development and public health action #IDTwitter#MedEd#TwitteRx
https://t.co/9JmiOdXNMj
Back playing music regularly and jesus ultimate-guitar has just gotten terrible over the years. How can you ad/paywall user generated content? It's so cumbersome I'd rather do it by ear.