@MarioNawfal Nah it's definitely always been capability. It still is. Manufacturing was not the unsolved problem holding back Toyota from scaling their robot production these last decades.
Scientists in Italy have identified a promising biological approach that could one day help break down the fatty, calcified deposits known as arterial plaque, potentially offering a future alternative to invasive procedures like stents or bypass surgery.
The research focuses on phospholipid transfer protein (PLTP), an enzyme that appears capable of mobilizing cholesterol from existing atherosclerotic plaques and returning it to the bloodstream for natural disposal by the liver. In preclinical studies, enhancing PLTP activity helped reduce plaque buildup and stabilize arterial walls.
While early results are encouraging, experts stress that this remains at the preclinical stage. The findings do not yet translate to a ready-to-use treatment for humans. Lifestyle changes, statins, and current medical therapies remain the proven standards for managing heart disease.
[Rossi, M., Bianchi, L., & Ferrero, G. (2026). Nanoparticle-targeted enzymatic degradation of atherosclerotic plaque: An in vivo proof of concept. European Heart Journal, 47(18), 1422-1435]
Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear.
The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day.
After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this.
Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017.
The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around.
Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.
Watch | An Israeli settler violently attack a Palestinian woman and a child, pushing them both to the ground, after storming their home in Khirbet Al-Markaz in Masafer Yatta, south of occupied Hebron.
@jhon_odey Why didnt they hit the STOP button ? And why doesn't the escalator have sensors and automated shutdown if the floor plates fall out of position ??
@VideosProh It should be a crime (maybe even manslaughter) to do nothing to help someone whose life is in danger when it would cause no risk of harm to the onlooker. If people have no human decency anymore the law needs to force some basic morality at a minimum.
@mogulicious55@VideosProh It should be a crime to do nothing to help someone who's life is in danger and that would not cause any risk of harm to onlooker
A horrifying footage of Spanish police brutally attacking flotilla activists. Spain condemned the treatment of flotilla activists by Israeli police, yet now we are seeing the same kind of violence carried out by Spanish police themselves.
This deserves the same outrage.
Scientists in Japan have developed a groundbreaking treatment that could double the average lifespan of cats, extending it from around 15 years to nearly 30 years.
The key lies in a protein called AIM (Apoptosis Inhibitor of Macrophage), discovered by Dr. Toru Miyazaki. While cats naturally produce AIM, they lack the ability to activate it effectively. This deficiency leads to the gradual buildup of waste in the kidneys, the leading cause of death in domestic cats.
Dr. Miyazaki’s team created an injectable form of activated AIM that directly restores the kidneys’ natural cleaning function. In clinical trials, cats with advanced kidney disease showed dramatic improvement after treatment. The therapy works both as a preventive measure for healthy cats and as a treatment for those already ill.
If approved, the treatment could revolutionize feline healthcare. Commercial rollout is expected to begin in Japan as early as 2025, with wider availability projected for 2027.
The research has also sparked interest for its potential applications in human medicine, as the AIM protein plays a similar waste-clearing role across species.
@triggerpod@jimmycarr And the intelligence agencies have absolute access to your devices and data whenever they want to use it. I feel like these ppl are very out of touch with the tech and infrastructure we've built in the last 40 years. A physical ID card is no different to the IDs you already have.
@triggerpod@jimmycarr I really dont understand the anti-digital ID arguments. We already have it. You don't think your passport and driving license are already stored in a digital system? They've have echips in them for many years now. Egates and cameras. The authorities already have this stuff...