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LibsOfTikTok Cancelled for Exposing Child Gender Mutilation

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LibsOfTikTok Cancelled for Exposing Child Gender Mutilation

Paul Collier August 29, 2022

NEWSBLURB:

Twitter and Facebook suspend LibsOfTikTok after she reported on sex-change surgery on kids

From winteryknight.com
2022-08-29 14:00:19
Wintery Knight

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If I keep talking about this housewife / real estate agent who runs LibsOfTikTok, you have to forgive me. I have been waiting for years to gain back some ground on social issues, and this lady seems to have figured out how to do it. She just re-posts videos made by secular leftists which they post in public for anyone to see. And it’s making a huge difference – turning normal people against the secular left.

But, since this is an election year, Big Tech had to step in and put a stop to it.

Here’s an article from Fox News:

Twitter locked the popular “Libs of TikTok” account late Saturday, blocking its owner from sending tweets or even signing in, according to a report.

Libs of TikTok has gained a massive following on Twitter for re-sharing posts from far-left circles on TikTok, a video-sharing app. The account’s posts often ridicule left-wing stances on transgenderism, education and other topics.

“Hi Libs of TikTok, your account, @libsoftiktok has been locked for…

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Treating Tumors with Your Own Antibodies

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Treating Tumors with Your Own Antibodies

Parker Davis June 7, 2022

A study published in Science Advances reveals a new method that might enable cancer tumors to be treated by the patient’s own antibodies.

The team lead, Andrew Tsourkas, said “Much is yet to be done before this could be considered a practical clinical approach. But I hope at the very least this works stimulates new ideas in the way we think about personalized medicine.”

Superbugs Could be Killed with Light-Triggered Nano Drills

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Superbugs Could be Killed with Light-Triggered Nano Drills

Parker Davis June 3, 2022

Rice University is developing nanoscale drills that are triggered by visible light. The nanoscale drills are being developed, in part, to kill bacteria, with treatments of real infections showing nano machines are effective. As bacteria grows more resistance to treatment, new, innovative alternatives are becoming essential to keep up.

Visible light triggers molecular machines to treat infections — ScienceDaily

From www.sciencedaily.com
2022-06-01 18:28:04

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“I tell students that when they are my age, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are going to make COVID look like a walk in the park,” Tour said. “Antibiotics won’t be able to keep 10 million people a year from dying of bacterial infections. But this really stops them.”

The breakthrough study led by Tour and Rice alumni Ana Santos and Dongdong Liu appears in Science Advances.

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Researchers for Nature Think They Found the Protein Making Us Lose Our Memories

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Researchers for Nature Think They Found the Protein Making Us Lose Our Memories

Ivo Fysic June 1, 2022

A protein in the brain called CCR5 could be the secret to uncovering why human minds fail as they get older. The protein is responsible for editing our memories, but moves into overdrive as we get older. An HIV drug might be useful in stopping and even reversing the trend.

Liver Restored, Preserved for Days by Machine Successfully Transplanted

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Liver Restored, Preserved for Days by Machine Successfully Transplanted

Parker Davis June 1, 2022

Liver4Life has developed a machine that can preserve a human liver for multiple days, as opposed to the current 12-hour limit. The machine preserves, and, in this case, restores damaged livers. The damaged liver was restored and successfully transplanted in a now-healthy man in 2021.

Covid Carries on Longer for 30 Percent of Patients

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Covid Carries on Longer for 30 Percent of Patients

Parker Davis May 3, 2022

Almost 30 Percent of COVID-19 Patients Develop ‘Long COVID’

From www.physiciansweekly.com
2022-05-03 05:51:35

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MONDAY, May 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Almost 30 percent of hospitalized patients and high-risk outpatients with COVID-19 develop postacute sequelae of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (PASC), according to a study published online April 7 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Sun M. Yoo, M.D., M.P.H., from the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California in Los Angeles, and colleagues examined the association of demographic and clinical characteristics on development of PASC among hospitalized and high-risk outpatients from April 2020 to February 2021.

The researchers found that 29.8 percent of the 1,038 patients with longitudinal follow-up developed PASC. In hospitalized patients, the most common persistent symptom was fatigue, followed by shortness of breath (31.4 and 15.4 percent, respectively); in outpatients, anosmia was the most common persistent symptom….

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Did Life Begin with Immortality?

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Did Life Begin with Immortality?

Paul Collier May 2, 2022

The quest for immortality is a tale as old as tales themselves, starting with Gilgamesh and up to present day. Today, science is trying to turn back the theoretical evolutionary clock and reintroduce immortality to creation by re-engineering our DNA, and that’s just the start.

The long quest for immortality, from Gilgamesh to Jeff Bezos

From www.washingtonpost.com
2022-05-01 11:04:37

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“But the story’s much weirder than we think,” Fink said. In a recent paper, he used math to demonstrate that “aging can be favored by natural selection.” That’s a shocking insight: It means that the first forms of life, which started billions of years ago, likely didn’t die…..

In Fink’s memorable phrase, “immortality — not mortality — is the natural state of affairs.” So how can we get back to this natural state? That’s where cell programming comes in…..

Several companies are trying to do this work, such as bit.bio, which recodes cells to attempt to find cures to diseases such as Alzheimer’s. In the long run, this revolutionary biotechnology might well enable scientists to reset cells for immortality.

“If the aging process is a mechanism inside the cell controlled by a transcription program, then we’ll be able to influence it,” hypothesized Forrest Sheldon, a LIMS junior fellow who collaborates with bit.bio.

But Fink and Sheldon cautioned that we’re still a long way from becoming immortal. Don’t book your vacation for the summer of 4500 just yet.

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Synthetic Bacteria Could Protect Your Gut from All Bad Bacteria

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Synthetic Bacteria Could Protect Your Gut from All Bad Bacteria

Parker Davis April 13, 2022

Researchers at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have been working on developing lab-designed and created bacteria that could conquer the bad bacteria that is immune to antibiotic therapies. The discovery could pave the way for alternative therapies to antibiotics, allowing humans to rely significantly less on antibiotics than they do now. This would also lead to much slower antibiotic resistance development by these same offending bacteria.

Engineering armour for good gut bacteria against all-conquering antibiotics

From cosmosmagazine.com

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Researchers of synthetic biology based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US have devised a system to protect the gut microbiome from the effects of antibiotics.

The new study, published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, reports on the successful use in mice of a “live biotherapeutic” – a genetically engineered bacterium that produces an enzyme which breaks down antibiotics in the gut.

“This work shows that synthetic biology can be harnessed to create a new class of engineered therapeutics for reducing the adverse effects of antibiotics,” says MIT professor James Collins, the paper’s senior author.

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AI Could Save You from Future Heart Attack

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AI Could Save You from Future Heart Attack

Parker Davis April 12, 2022

Artificial Intelligence might one day be able to prompt you that a heart attack might be looming. It might even give you instructions (recommendations if you don’t want to be controlled) on what to do to nip that looming heart attack in the bud. The findings come out of Johns Hopkins University from a team of biomedical engineers led by Natalia Trayanova.

AI predicts if and when you might have a fatal heart attack

From www.futurity.org
2022-04-11 13:57:24
Jill Rosen-Johns Hopkins
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A new artificial intelligence-based approach can predict if and when a patient could die of a heart attack.

The technology, built on raw images of patient’s diseased hearts and patient backgrounds, significantly improves on doctor’s predictions and stands to revolutionize clinical decision making and increase survival from sudden and lethal cardiac arrhythmias, one of medicine’s deadliest and most puzzling conditions.

“Sudden cardiac death caused by arrhythmia accounts for as many as 20% of all deaths worldwide and we know little about why it’s happening or how to tell who’s at risk,” says senior author Natalia Trayanova, a professor of biomedical engineering and medicine at Johns Hopkins University.

“There are patients who may be at low risk of sudden cardiac death getting defibrillators that they might not need and then there are high-risk patients that aren’t getting the treatment they need and could die in the prime of their life. What our algorithm can do is determine who is at risk for cardiac death and when it will occur, allowing doctors to decide exactly what needs to be done.”

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Science Can Send Your Skin 30 Years Back in Time

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Science Can Send Your Skin 30 Years Back in Time

Paul Collier April 8, 2022

Researchers out of the Babraham Institute are claiming to have developed a method to restore dying cells to earlier iterations of being, going back as far as 30 years. The cells in particular are skin cells. The project promises to offer the potential for humans in the near future to get treatments for aging skin that literally could restore you going back 30 years in the past. This means a man of 54 years might one day begin to start a treatment process that will end with him appearing to be 24, ending any hope for young men to ever find a wife again.

Ok, that last part was a bit hyperbolic, but, the social ramifications of wiser people with more resources appearing just as vital and youthful as 20 and 30 year olds offers some challenging thoughts about the future of societies that remain so firmly entrenched in satisfying and reflecting the preferential lifestyle choices of our youth, which might not be such a bad outcome, if you ask me.

Still, with all that in mind, sign me up tomorrow for the treatment. As a happily married man, I will be no threat to the youth, nor will my lovely wife who, of course, is also getting the treatment. Let’s hope it’s not too expensive.

Researchers developed a method to ‘time jump’ human skin cells by 30 years, turning back the aging clock for cells without losing their specialized function. Findings could lead to targeted approach for treating aging : Futurology

From www.reddit.com
2022-04-07 23:59:09
/u/Dr_Singularity
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Research from the Babraham Institute has developed a method to ‘time jump’ human skin cells by 30 years, turning back the aging clock for cells without losing their specialized function. Work by researchers in the Institute’s Epigenetics research program has been able to partly restore the function of older cells, as well as rejuvenating the molecular measures of biological age. The research is published today (April 7, 2022) in the journal eLife and whilst at an early stage of exploration, it could revolutionize regenerative medicine.

The new method, based on the Nobel Prize-winning technique scientists use to make stem cells, overcomes the problem of entirely erasing cell identity by halting reprogramming part of the way through the process. This allowed researchers to find the precise balance between reprogramming cells, making them biologically younger, while still being able to regain their specialized cell function.

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