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Delthia Ricks@dricks.bsky.social |
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Science writer, author, essayist & avid gardener.
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Delthia Ricks
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New study links obesity to better survival for cancer patients on immunotherapy. This is becoming a trend involving several cancer types. Latest study involves head & neck cancer. Patients w/ extra pounds had better survival while on drugs boosting immune system www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyon...
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Delthia Ricks
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Allergic to red meat? You may have alpha-gal syndrome caused by Lone Star tick bites.Alpha-gal is short for galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose, a sugar in tick saliva. It ups sensitivity to red meat. Allergy can be severe causing shock. 110k cases identified 2010-2022 medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07...
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Delthia Ricks
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Studying bat viruses can help prevent zoonotic diseases. Bats are the poster child of emerging diseases because they harbor an array of viruses—some that cause deadly diseases in humans—yet bats don't get sick. Now, a look at strategies to prevent spillover to people phys.org/news/2024-07...
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Delthia Ricks
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Health officials in San Francisco have been trying to determine how #H5N1 got into local wastewater. They now think live poultry markets may be the source www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
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"Encouragingly, vaccination was observed to attenuate the neuropsychiatric effects of the infection."
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TRAstonDrs
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The findings revealed that #SARSCoV2 was detectable by PCR in 9.1% & by viral culture in 4.5% of 💀 sawdust samples, suggesting the presence of live virus & a risk, although low, of infective 🦠 becoming aerosolized. A frightened factors of #SARSCOV2 deadly airborne
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Thiago Carvalho
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'Birkholz et al. have discovered that a mobile intron containing a homing endonuclease found within a viral RNA polymerase gene in one bacteriophage blocks productive infection by a related and competing coinfecting bacteriophage.'
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Chise
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Chemistree ⚛️🧪
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Delthia Ricks
@dricks.bsky.social
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New study links obesity to better survival for cancer patients on immunotherapy. This is becoming a trend involving several cancer types. Latest study involves head & neck cancer. Patients w/ extra pounds had better survival while on drugs boosting immune system www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyon...
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Delthia Ricks
@dricks.bsky.social
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Studying bat viruses can help prevent zoonotic diseases. Bats are the poster child of emerging diseases because they harbor an array of viruses—some that cause deadly diseases in humans—yet bats don't get sick. Now, a look at strategies to prevent spillover to people phys.org/news/2024-07...
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Delthia Ricks
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Allergic to red meat? You may have alpha-gal syndrome caused by Lone Star tick bites.Alpha-gal is short for galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose, a sugar in tick saliva. It ups sensitivity to red meat. Allergy can be severe causing shock. 110k cases identified 2010-2022 medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07...
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Delthia Ricks
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How, precisely, does #SARSCoV2 enter your cells to cause infection? While scientists have a good idea what happens during the course of that process, a team of researchers in Hong Kong has identified novel factors in human cells that facilitate viral entry phys.org/news/2024-07...
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Delthia Ricks
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#H5N1: The CDC has confirmed the 4th human case of #birdflu, and it's also linked to dairy cows. The infection occurred in Colorado. The person had only eye symptoms, was given antiviral medication & has since recovered. The 1st human case was in Texas; 2 others in Michigan phys.org/news/2024-07...
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Delthia Ricks
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Scientists are developing a monoclonal antibody to neutralize Nipah virus, one of the deadliest zoonotic pathogens known to science. By Delthia Ricks medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06...
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Delthia Ricks
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Why do you keep your house so cold? Or maybe your house is toasty, even in summer. New research from the Univ of Maryland & the Nat'l University of Ireland suggests your childhood home temperature can predict adult thermostat settings phys.org/news/2024-07...
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Thiago Carvalho
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Dexamethasone & Covid MOA
"We observed a reversal of transcriptional hallmark signatures in monocytes associated with severe COVID-19 and the induction of a monocyte substate characterized by the expression of glucocorticoid-response genes."
#Covid #Covid19
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🥼🦟🧀
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"These data suggest that viral persistence and sustained immune activation are linked to Long COVID"
-Amazing. How could we ever have foreseen this possibility?
No, I mean apart from all the early data showing SARS-CoV-2 persistence. Sorry, I mean 'pieces of RNA'
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Liam Hogan
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We have learned so much about how viruses transmit over the past four years & yet none of the passive yet effective measures (better ventilation, HEPA filtration) have been adopted as new standards. An opportunity to future proof our buildings & workplaces let slip away. www.rte.ie/news/2024/07...
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SANTA CLAUS
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FIREWORKS explode like magnified gunfire in the exquisitely sensitive ears of all creatures. Many: Bees don't go back to their hives; Birds have panic attacks; Wild animals abandon dens; Fish perish eating debris; Companion animals have anxiety; Humans have PTSD. Please be aware. Thank you :-)}
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Rima I Anabtawi
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Newborn babies are starving to death in #Gaza hospitals and camps. Their mothers are so malnourished that they can't breastfeed them while Israel deliberately withholds formula, food, and clean water from entering the Gaza Strip
news.sky.com/story/newbor...
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onisillos
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New research article in The Lancet Microbe
Evaluation and validation of a PrintrLab-based LAMP assay to identify #Trypanosoma cruzi in newborns in Bolivia: a proof-of-concept study
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#Chagas #IDSky #OpenAccess #OA
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Stephanie
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“people who eat more white rice, coffee, eggs and seafood typically showed more of the toxic chemicals in their plasma and breast milk.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Delthia Ricks
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#H5N1: The CDC has confirmed the 4th human case of #birdflu, and it's also linked to dairy cows. The infection occurred in Colorado. The person had only eye symptoms, was given antiviral medication & has since recovered. The 1st human case was in Texas; 2 others in Michigan phys.org/news/2024-07...
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Delthia Ricks
@dricks.bsky.social
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Why do you keep your house so cold? Or maybe your house is toasty, even in summer. New research from the Univ of Maryland & the Nat'l University of Ireland suggests your childhood home temperature can predict adult thermostat settings phys.org/news/2024-07...
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Delthia Ricks
@dricks.bsky.social
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Scientists are developing a monoclonal antibody to neutralize Nipah virus, one of the deadliest zoonotic pathogens known to science. By Delthia Ricks medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06...
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
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It's worth googling the Great Smog of London to see how far we've come. Images like this from the 1950s. It was caused in part from burning coal
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Delthia Ricks
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Nasal vaccine: Researchers are enrolling volunteers for a Phase I clinical trial of a #Covid nasal vax. Adult volunteers are being sought for study sites nationwide. The candidate vax is expected to have enhanced protection against a range of emerging #SARSCoV2 variants www.nih.gov/news-events/...
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Delthia Ricks
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#H5N1: Colorado now has the worst outbreak of #birdflu among dairy cattle in the United States. The state has seen nearly one-quarter of its herds affected, most of them in the past month coloradosun.com/2024/07/02/c...
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Delthia Ricks
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Beware of cucumbers: Untreated canal water used by a Florida cucumber grower is linked to salmonella-tainted cucumbers that have sickened 450 people in 30 states. Inspectors found salmonella in canal water used by the grower matching the strain tied to the illnesses medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07...
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Delthia Ricks
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The FDA has approved another drug for early Alzheimer's, a monoclonal antibody—donanemab—an anti-amyloid therapy. It's sold under the brand name Kisunla. Amyloid damages neurons in Alzheimer's. Kisunla has a black-box warning bc of possible bleeding in the brain www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/al...
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Delthia Ricks
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Older patients experiencing delirium during #Covid
hospitalization are at higher risk of disability & cognitive impairment in the 6 months after discharge. New study. While patients may have had delirium they often aren't tested for cognitive issues after release www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
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Delthia Ricks
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A potential game-changer for emergency medicine: Synthetic platelets developed by two No. Carolina research universities. Platelets are sticky disc-like cells key to blood clotting. Team created them w/ hydrogel nanoparticles—gels formed via H2O & polymer molecules medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07...
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Thiago Carvalho
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'The High Court in London on Tuesday found that Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine infringed a patent that Moderna filed in 2011 covering a part of the mRNA platform, which was central to the jabs.'
www.ft.com/content/c57b...
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Kathleen Bachynski
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“Moderna is set to receive $176 million in federal funding to develop a human vaccine against bird flu… The HHS award…will go toward developing an mRNA-based pandemic influenza vaccine. Moderna’s candidate for the vaccine draws from mRNA technology used successfully during the COVID-19 response”
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bioRxivpreprint
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Inexperienced bumble bees are poor at securely landing regardless of flower orientation or presence of labellum www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.27.601070v1
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Thiago Carvalho
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'The discovery of recombinases that use easily customized RNA molecules to recognize DNA targets could obviate the key challenges of the existing toolbox, just as the reprogrammable guide RNAs of DNA-cleaving CRISPR–Cas enzymes ushered in a new era of genome editing.'
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Obi Wan Kenoblerone
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This is the first headline I found after looking it up. I mean, what the fuck. edition.cnn.com/2024/07/02/p...
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International Medical Corps
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In partnership with @UNICEF and the Gaza and Palestine Nutrition Cluster, International Medical Corps is implementing the “Find and Treat” campaign to address growing rates of malnutrition among children under 5 in Gaza. More about the campaign here:
internationalmedicalcorps.org/press-releas...
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Calgary Climate Hub
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The science of #protests: how to shape public opinion and swing votes - Demonstrations are on the rise, and scientists are revealing which types work best. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Michael E. Mann
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"Record-breaking Category 5 Hurricane Beryl wouldn't be possible without climate change" by Matthew Rozsa for the @salonnewsroom.bsky.social: www.salon.com/2024/07/02/r...
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Delthia Ricks
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That is the $100M question!!!
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Delthia Ricks
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Nasal vaccine: Researchers are enrolling volunteers for a Phase I clinical trial of a #Covid nasal vax. Adult volunteers are being sought for study sites nationwide. The candidate vax is expected to have enhanced protection against a range of emerging #SARSCoV2 variants www.nih.gov/news-events/...
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Delthia Ricks
@dricks.bsky.social
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The FDA has approved another drug for early Alzheimer's, a monoclonal antibody—donanemab—an anti-amyloid therapy. It's sold under the brand name Kisunla. Amyloid damages neurons in Alzheimer's. Kisunla has a black-box warning bc of possible bleeding in the brain www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/al...
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Delthia Ricks
@dricks.bsky.social
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Older patients experiencing delirium during #Covid
hospitalization are at higher risk of disability & cognitive impairment in the 6 months after discharge. New study. While patients may have had delirium they often aren't tested for cognitive issues after release www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
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Delthia Ricks
@dricks.bsky.social
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Beware of cucumbers: Untreated canal water used by a Florida cucumber grower is linked to salmonella-tainted cucumbers that have sickened 450 people in 30 states. Inspectors found salmonella in canal water used by the grower matching the strain tied to the illnesses medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07...
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Delthia Ricks
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Herpes infections are taking a major economic toll globally. Genital herpes infections & their related complications are leading to billions of dollars in health care expenditures & productivity losses. Study by U of Utah is the 1st to estimate global herpes costs medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07...
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Delthia Ricks
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Interesting: Ribosomes, the cellular structures that serve as 'workbenches' where proteins are made, apparently play an unexpected role in blood vessel formation. Research is from the Univ of Massachusetts & it has uncovered a unique role among ribosomes in angiogenesis phys.org/news/2024-07...
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christoph_STCmicrobeblog
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(bacterial) cell divisionists take note 👇
tagging #MicroSky
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🥼🦟🧀
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Seweryn Bialasiewicz spoke on the respiratory microbiome & otitis media (OM) among Queensland First Nations children (part of the POPI study) among whom OM is a leading cause of hearing loss.
Haemophilus, Streptococcus & Moraxella bacterial species are key culprits. #ASM2024
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TRAstonDrs
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#MedSky🧪 #IDSky #PedSky At the beginning of the #COVID19 pandemic, cases in infants were rare, but the emergence of the Omicron strain made it more prevalent in infants . Nevertheless, to our knowledge, only 3 cases of #COVID19 patients with bulging fontanel have been reported in the literature
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