Science ish dump thread

[morrowalnut]

The Church of Christ getting in on the molten salt reactor game 🤔🤔

ACU’s NEXT Lab submits construction application with NRC to build research reactor sponsored by Natura Resources | Abilene Christian University

In yet another significant step toward the goal of building a molten salt research reactor, Abilene Christian University’s Nuclear Energy eXperimental Testing Lab submitted an application for a construction permit with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Monday. The application is the...

acu.edu

 

[morrowalnut]

Decoding the Vaginal Microbiome

The most detailed map of its kind catalogues the sequences of about a million bacterial, viral and fungal genes

www.scientificamerican.com

First ‘Vagina-on-a-Chip’ Will Help Researchers Test Drugs

A new chip re-creates the human vagina’s unique microbiome

www.scientificamerican.com

Brush up on your vagina science. I have to say I really prefer non chip vaginas but to each their own

 

[Ceaze]

Repost

 

[morrowalnut]

Repost

Both? I don't see him in this thread unless they're called something different

 

[pepsi]

Mass dolphin strandings may be because their pod leaders have Alzheimer’s, study says

Their findings reinforce the “sick leader” theory, which states that a pod of healthy dolphins will follow a diseased leader to their deaths, researchers said.

ca.news.yahoo.com

 

[Grape_Ape]

Enhanced polymeric material can be used in regenerative therapies to repair damaged tissues

Scientists from Baltic Federal University alongside their colleagues have enhanced the biocompatible and biodegradable polymer called polycaprolactone in a way that the human cells willingly attach to it and divide on its surface.

www.news-medical.net

 

[pepsi]

Mysterious shock wave from the sun opens up a crack in Earth’s magnetic field

The storm is classed as a G1 storm, so is expected to be fairly mild.

www.livescience.com

 

[limsoup]

would be helpful if you also post something to qualify the legitimacy/rigor of the news reports you post

like, I have no idea, off hand, if sciencealert.com is a legit site, but it sounds click-baity af

"This site, a link from which I posted, is legit"

how is that helpful

 

[Grape_Ape]

Humans continue to evolve: Study tracks the emergence of 155 new genes

Modern humans evolutionarily split from our chimpanzee ancestors nearly 7 million years ago, yet we are continuing to evolve. 155 new genes have been identified within the human lineage that spontaneously arose from tiny sections of our DNA. Some of these new genes date back to the ancient...

phys.org

 

[Grape_Ape]

CRISPR cuts tree flowering times from a decade to mere months

Selective breeding of plants can help give them new beneficial traits, but trees have a frustratingly long reproductive cycle. Now, scientists at the University of Georgia have used CRISPR gene-editing to make poplar trees flower within months rather than a decade.

newatlas.com

 

[Grape_Ape]

BioNTech doses first patient in herpes vaccine candidate clinical trial

BioNtech has dosed the first patient with its BNT163 herpes vaccine candidate designed to prevent genital lesions as part of a first-in-human Phase 1 clinical research study, the German vaccine maker said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

 

[morrowalnut]

Mass dolphin strandings may be because their pod leaders have Alzheimer’s, study says

Their findings reinforce the “sick leader” theory, which states that a pod of healthy dolphins will follow a diseased leader to their deaths, researchers said.

ca.news.yahoo.com

Stuff you should know did an episode on this in 2017 but regarding whales

Why Are Whale Strandings Still a Mystery? - Stuff You Should Know | iHeart

<p>For millennia, mass strandings of whales have confounded us. Why should dozens or more whales come onto shore only to die a terrible and lengthy death?</p><p> </p> Learn more about your ad-choices at <a href='https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com'>https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com</a><p>See...

www.iheart.com

 

[Grape_Ape]

“Pre-drinking” pill uses probiotics to break down alcohol before alcohol reaches the liver

Swedish probiotic company Myrkl is proposing the product as a “pre-drinking” dietary supplement.

www.nutritionaloutlook.com

Says the firm’s press release, “Myrkl is the first-ever product in history to demonstrate the breakdown of alcohol effectively (eliminating up to 70% of alcohol after 60 minutes), reducing common symptoms experienced after drinking alcohol.” It adds: “Not only does Myrkl break down alcohol into water and carbon dioxide before reaching the liver, but it also eliminates the calories associated with alcohol in the process.”

 

[Grape_Ape]

Armadillo experiment suggests that we can regenerate human livers with leprosy

M. leprae-infected armadillos develop enlarged, healthy livers with gene expression patterns similar to human fetal livers.

www.freethink.com

 

[Grape_Ape]

A Physicist Came Up With Math That Shows 'Paradox-Free' Time Travel Is Plausible

No one has yet managed to travel through time – at least to our knowledge – but the question of whether or not such a feat would be theoretically possible continues to fascinate scientists.

www.sciencealert.com

 

[Grape_Ape]

Challenging Established Beliefs: Harvard Research Uncovers Surprising New Roles for Spinal Cord and Brainstem

 

[Grape_Ape]

Crispr moves into the clinic

A mere decade after its discovery Crispr is already in clinical trials for everything from sickle cell disease to HIV and cancer

www.chemistryworld.com

 

[Joe_Cool]

Turns Out Fighting Mosquitoes With Mosquitoes Actually Works

New evidence indicates that an effort to stamp out disease-carrying insects is working. The key? Mosquitoes genetically engineered to kill off their own kind.

www.wired.com

You know what works even better, at a fraction of the cost? DDT.

 

[01ACRViper]

You know what works even better, at a fraction of the cost? DDT.

Yeah, that shit has some wonderful side effects

 

[Joe_Cool]

Yeah, that shit has some wonderful side effects

Yeah, like the near eradication of malaria and the saving of millions of human lives per year.

 

[GucciGucci]

First man in the UK to have a hand transplant reveals it meant he SAVED his his wife's life by giving her 10 minutes of CPR after she suffered a heart attack​

• Mark Cahill was the first person in the UK to undergo groundbreaking surgery
• Six years later, Mr Cahill was able to perform CPR which saved his wife's life
• Mr Cahill said the surgery changed his life and he sees the hand 'as a part of me'

Man who received hand transplant used it to save wife's life with CPR

Ten years after Mark Cahill, 61, underwent the surgery at Leeds General Infirmary, the former pub landlord has revealed how it changed his life.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Grape_Ape]

 

[Grape_Ape]

Johns Hopkins Discovers New Path to Treating Age-Related Hearing Loss – “There’s More to Hearing Than the Ear”

Study of hearing in old and young mice suggests the brain might be trained to filter out background sound. Looking for answers about how the brain works amid age-related hearing loss, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers discovered that old mice were less capable than young mice of “turning off” cert

scitechdaily.com

 

[Grape_Ape]

Breached dolphin's brains show neuropathology similar to Alzheimer's

In a new European Journal of Neuroscience study, scientists studied the brains of Odontocetes (Toothed whales) to document the presence or absence of neuropathological hallmarks of AD.

www.news-medical.net

 

[Grape_Ape]

Regenerative Medicine Breakthrough: Cellular “Glue” To Regenerate Tissues, Heal Wounds, Regrow Nerves

Synthetic Molecules that Adhere Cells Could Galvanize Regenerative Medicine Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have engineered molecules that act like “cellular glue,” allowing them to direct in precise fashion how cells bond with each other. The discovery represents a

scitechdaily.com