Chun-Che OU 🍁

🏛U of T Alum@Rotman, CFA Charterholder 🏳️‍🌈Humanist-Liberal-Freethinker 🏺Cultural History Buff ❤ Hospitality & 🛩🌏, Caring & Empathetic Society 🌸

[SciTech Era @SciTechera]

This is huge. One of the most advanced spinal cord regeneration breakthroughs yet 👀

"Researchers just created microscopic living robots called NPCbots that combine human neural stem-cell progenitors with magnetoelectric nanoparticles."

"The tiny biohybrid robots can be guided to spinal cord injuries using external magnetic fields and stimulated wirelessly without implanted electrodes."

"When exposed to magnetic stimulation, the nanoparticles generate electrical signals that encourage stem cells to mature into neurons and supportive nerve tissue."

"In zebrafish with spinal cord injuries, the treatment produced near-complete recovery of swimming and exploratory behavior within just 3 days."

"The team then tested the technology in mice with complete spinal cord transection, one of the most severe forms of spinal cord injury."

"Researchers implanted approximately 500,000 NPCbots and applied magnetic stimulation for 30 minutes per day over two weeks."

"Within 28 days, treated mice showed significant improvements in nerve regeneration, neural signaling, gait, coordination, and mobility."

"The therapy combines stem cells, microrobotics, magnetic navigation, and wireless bioelectronic stimulation into a single regenerative platform."

"Unlike conventional neurostimulation approaches, the system does not require electrodes implanted into the spinal cord."

"The results suggest a future where precisely controlled living microrobots could help repair damaged nervous tissue and restore lost function after spinal cord injury."

[Claudia Ottaviano-Maheux 🇨🇦 @claudiacm1146]

@gipel49 Et #PSPP a honoré Pierre Schneider comme un héros, plutôt que de le reconnaître pour un terroriste! #PQ #polqc #FLQ

[Éric Grenier @EricGrenierTW]

Polls this week show either the Liberals down and the NDP up, or the Liberals up and the NDP very much not. So, what to make of it? Plus, how the BC Conservative vote unfolded. https://t.co/f91EDZX5JX

[SciTech Era @SciTechera]

reminder

"Researchers just discovered that aging is partly driven by the gradual loss of DNA's organized structure inside our cells."

"The team found that boosting a protein called SIRT6 restored youthful chromatin organization in old mouse cells, reversing major age-related gene activity changes."

"They also restored key heterochromatin markers like H3K9me3 and reduced inflammatory gene programs linked to aging."

Aging involves the progressive collapse of genome organization and this research suggests that part of that collapse is reversible.

Aging is the biggest challenge in medicine. Once we learn to control it, many of the diseases that dominate healthcare today could become secondary problems.

Aging is the biggest challenge in medicine. Solving it could transform our ability to prevent and treat countless diseases.

[Chun-Che OU 🍁 @ccouja]

Fiction meets reality for the separatists. #cdnpoli #abpoli #polqc

https://t.co/V61RN8AsCW

[Harshi Peiris, Ph.D. @Neuroscope_mp]

🚨 BREAKING Scientists may have just cracked the code on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's — WITH ONE PILL.

A drug called Buntanetap was just published in a peer-reviewed journal with Phase 3 data.
Phase 3 means that we are on the verge of FDA approval.

It targets the ROOT CAUSE of both diseases simultaneously.

Here's what you need to know 🧵👇
#Alzheimers #Parkinsons

[Louis Xavier RUEDA ZILLI @loxaruzi]

Paris au temps de Marcel #Proust, 1900.
@Paris #litterature

[Chun-Che OU 🍁 @ccouja]

@PastorinoNando Bonnes chances!

[Claudia Ottaviano-Maheux 🇨🇦 @claudiacm1146]

Sondage Léger (31 mai) : les libéraux fédéraux à 50% au Québec — en hausse de 3 points. En 2025, ils avaient récolté 42,6%. Et ce, avant qu'Ottawa débloque 10 milliards $ en infrastructures pour le Québec. Le fédéralisme, ça marche pour le Québec. #polqc #PQ #PSPP #Bloc

[Chun-Che OU 🍁 @ccouja]

@Happelle Mais vous accepterez les 16 milliards de dollars par année en paiements de péréquation. J'appellerai mon député et je lui dirai que si le PQ gagne, le Québec veut rien savoir de péréquation car c’est pas toutes les provinces qui ont reçu des paiements chaque année.

[Chun-Che OU 🍁 @ccouja]

@99pierre99 @rstjac1032 @danielbeland En plus, c’est au Québec que le PM Carney reçoit son plus grand appui parmi toutes les provinces.

[Cult MTL @cultmtl]

Mark Carney Approval Polling:

🟢 Canada: 67%

🟢 QC: 73%
🟢 BC: 71%
🟢 MB: 68%
🟢 ON: 65%
🟢 SK: 65%
🟢 ATL: 63%
🟢 AB: 61% https://t.co/YGT7EAGmG4

[Chun-Che OU 🍁 @ccouja]

@99pierre99 @rstjac1032 @danielbeland Finalement, c’est le contraire, les Libéraux sont à un niveau jamais vu depuis un demi siècle au Québec.

Le PLC du Canada est maintenant à 50% selon le dernier sondage de Léger (31 mai).

Le 50% + 1 a beaucoup moins d’appui qu’on croit et c’est preque limité aux péquistes.

[Claudia Ottaviano-Maheux 🇨🇦 @claudiacm1146]

Sondage Léger (31 mai) : les libéraux fédéraux à 50% au Québec — en hausse de 3 points. En 2025, ils avaient récolté 42,6%. Et ce, avant qu'Ottawa débloque 10 milliards $ en infrastructures pour le Québec. Le fédéralisme, ça marche pour le Québec. #polqc #PQ #PSPP #Bloc

[Dane Didkerson @HabDomination]

@Isabelle_Blais_ Mais vous accepterez les 16 milliards de dollars par année en paiements de péréquation. J'appellerai mon député et je lui dirai que si le PQ gagne, le Québec veut se retirer de ce programme.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

PM Carney on the economy: "The data's going to be uneven and we see some weakness in part because of clear decisions by the government ... But we're also seeing at the same time the foundations coming into place, settling in for that stronger, more resilient economy."

[Claudia Ottaviano-Maheux 🇨🇦 @claudiacm1146]

Wise words from Carney. Quebec separatists will face a lot of conflict & disappoint. It will cost them dearly. #PQ #polqc

[common(non)sense @katiabanina]

My granddad is the best person i know

At 11, he tried a cig and didn't like it and never smoked since
At 18, he was on the verge of death from sepsis when his mom's friend's husband, a long haul Aeroflot pilot, brought penicillin back from the US. When the antibiotics started working, the doc told his mom - don't cry, he might even live up to 40
At 21, he got a degree in nuclear physics, but wasn't allowed to work in the industry due to weakened health. He found himself in the Soviet space programme
At 26, he sent Sputnik to space, a few weeks before he had his first child
At 32, he made the discovery of the Earth's plasmasphere
At 60, he learnt English because the iron curtain had fallen and he could travel to the international space conferences. He needed to write and present in English
At 70, he would fight me for the dial-up internet as I wanted to chat to online friends, while he needed to send some work emails from home
At 85, he visited me in London and went to the British Museum five days in a row. One of the days we were having afternoon tea, and he exclaimed: "I'm so lucky! Had I not lived to this age, I would not have seen Amenkhotep III statue and had these wonderful scones at the Ritz"
At 90, he was the only person in my family who said I must absolutely take the opportunity to work in crypto
At 94, he still was still co-authoring scientific papers. And this hasn't stopped yet

Yesterday, he turned 95

Happy birthday granddad 😊

[Chun-Che OU 🍁 @ccouja]

@writcertiorari Wait till this result is replicated by another pollster or two. One poll doesn’t make a trend.

[Chun-Che OU 🍁 @ccouja]

@joakial_ @ChrisRobbin2 Is it fair to assume being openly gay is generally not an issue in Norway nowadays or is there still areas of concern?

[Chun-Che OU 🍁 @ccouja]

@RealAlbanianPat Mind the small sample size for BC in national polls.

[Harshi Peiris, Ph.D. @Neuroscope_mp]

🚨 Scientists just identified a hidden 'molecular switch' that drives chronic brain inflammation in Alzheimer’s.

It’s a protein called STING that gets chemically stuck in the “on” position.

This could be a major new drug target. Thread 👇

[Chun-Che OU 🍁 @ccouja]

🤦‍♂️

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Pierre Poilievre: "I would encourage Liberals to stop the divisive rhetoric and work on uniting Canadians. I know the Liberal Party survives and thrives on divide and conquer politics."