Innovation In Isolation

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[Rafael A. Badell-Grau, PhD @rafaelabadell]

NURSES/PHYSICIANS!🧑‍⚕️🏥 Do YOU use mechanical ventilators? 🤔 ⚙️

WE NEED YOU for this @UniofOxford @KingsCollegeLon @oxengsci survey on an inexpensive mechanical ventilator which increases critical care capacity in countries with limited resources! 🤩💪

https://t.co/cCRlTSHIwc

[Innovation In Isolation @InnovIsolation]

The oldest fossilised sperm has been found inside a female #crustacean preserved in amber.
#Ostracods micro-crustaceans, as #fruit #flies, have giant sperm but this #megasperm dates back to at least 100 million years ago 🤯🤯 ⬇️⬇️⬇️

https://t.co/lgc0BUUdf7

@flyprofhelen

[Innovation In Isolation @InnovIsolation]

#ShareTheOrange 🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊

[Alzheimer's Research UK @AlzResearchUK]

Dementia is not an inevitable part of ageing, it is caused by diseases, most commonly Alzheimer’s. So, this #WorldAlzheimersDay is about hope. Hope that research will find a breakthrough. Please watch and #ShareTheOrange - https://t.co/VUyc606Yhs

[Sarai Llamas @saraillamas]

#WorldAlzheimersDay

MEMORIES MATTER

«One of the worst things that can happen to a person is to be forgotten by someone they will never forget».

#DíaMundialDelAlzheimer #Alzheimer #AlzheimersAwareness #AlzheimersDay #brain #MedArt #MedicalArt #neurology #neurologia #sciart

[Alzheimer's Society @alzheimerssoc]

This #WorldAlzheimersDay, we're encouraging everyone to start a conversation about dementia.

Talking about dementia helps reduce the stigma & fear that surround the condition, and connects you with other people affected.

Visit https://t.co/TegxILPgm0 to get started today.

[Innovation In Isolation @InnovIsolation]

🤯One -cell organism that destroys the #brain tissue 🧠?

In 2018, 16 people died in the US after getting infected with #Naegleria #fowleri , an amoeba that causes a rare but deadly brain disease ⬇️⬇️
@BSPparasitology @TrendsParasitol https://t.co/l9ZKKXx1eJ

[Innovation In Isolation @InnovIsolation]

📣A team of #physicists from @UoE_Physics has engineered a way to enable #protons to behave as #electrons!!!
@Mann_CharlieRay leads this study published in @NaturePhotonics

🤯If you mind is blown right now, you can read more information here⬇️⬇️⬇️…

[Innovation In Isolation @InnovIsolation]

Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus🌌🌌

Must read⬇️⬇️⬇️

https://t.co/m8YDfeKe2R

#phosphine #venus #life #discovery #science #sciencefromhome

[Innovation In Isolation @InnovIsolation]

One of our team @JordanCuff will be speaking at this event hosted by @NHM_London !!!

https://t.co/Ocdr1bIk3p

@CUBLSResearch @MResBIOSI @MolEcolCU @cardiffuni @CardiffBiosci

[Natural History Museum @NHM_London]

Join science communicator Khalil Thirlaway and scientists Victoria Burton and Jordan Cuff at 12.00 BST today as they talk about their wildlife monitoring work during this turbulent time.

https://t.co/bHr0DL9YRy

[Innovation In Isolation @InnovIsolation]

Did you know that #ThomasEdison electrocuted several zoo animals, including #Topsy the #elephant, just to prove that Nikola Tesla’s #alternating current was more dangerous than his own #direct current?

He even recorded all of it to show the rest of the world...

[Jordan Cuff 🕸️🧬🕷️ @JordanCuff]

Excited to talk about all of the great work we’ve been doing with @BASSurveys! 🕷🕷🕷

[Innovation In Isolation @InnovIsolation]

#scientificemojis
💾💾 represents the #floppydisk, invented by the extravagant Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu!

#invent #inventor #sciencefacts #scientist

[Innovation In Isolation @InnovIsolation]

@PBtScience @WorldAndScience @DamnInteresting @abc_science

[Innovation In Isolation @InnovIsolation]

Japanese inventor #Yoshiro #Nakamatsu - Nobel prize winner and one of the greatest #minds in human #history- would routinely work under water for hours at a time!!!!

Nakamatsu patented more than 3,300 #inventions by starving his brain of oxygen!

What do you thing?⬇️⬇️⬇️

[Innovation In Isolation @InnovIsolation]

Worth reading

[Prof. Akiko Iwasaki @VirusesImmunity]

Lastly, while this is a good example of how primary infection can prevent disease from subsequent infection, more studies are needed to understand the range of outcomes from reinfection. (end)

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

📍BREAKING—First ever official re-infection case of #COVID19 documented. Research team from @hkumed report the first reinfection in press release. Patient reinfected by a completely separate strain of #SARSCoV2 from original, as proven by 🦠🧬sequencing. Details & implications🧵

[Prof. Akiko Iwasaki @VirusesImmunity]

A first case of #COVID19 reinfection from HKU, with distinct virus genome sequences in 1st and 2nd infection (142 days apart). Kudos to the scientists for this study.

This is no cause for alarm - this is a textbook example of how immunity should work.

(1/n)

[Vincent Rajkumar @VincentRK]

Reinfection occurs if the virus changes or with high viral dose exposure. Here they found the strain of SARS CoV-2 was different. But as expected the immune system worked and the patient was asymptomatic.

@DrSidMukherjee @Rfonsi1 - your thoughts...

[Vincent Rajkumar @VincentRK]

My thoughts on Hong Kong reinfection report.

The key question is not whether COVID reinfection occurs. It is whether reinfection will be severe. I have said before that severe reinfection will be very rare, and reinfections won’t cause a repeat of the pandemic. NO need to panic

[Innovation In Isolation @InnovIsolation]

#WorldMosquitoDay is set to remember the discovery of the connection between #MOSQUITOS and #MALARIA.

Mosquitoes do not only cause malaria, but many other diseases such as #Zika or #WestNileVirus (WNV). Recently, there is being a WNV outbreak in Spain with 17 in hospital