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Global report urges more accurate definition of obesity than BMI
There is a risk too many people are being diagnosed as obese, with weight-loss drugs in high demand.
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Zebrafish protein unlocks dormant genes for heart repair
"Researchers from the Bakkers group at the Hubrecht Institute have successfully repaired damaged mouse hearts using a protein from zebrafish. They discovered that the protein Hmga1 plays a key role in heart regeneration in zebrafish. In mice, this protein was able to restore the heart by activating dormant repair genes without causing side effects, such as heart enlargement."
"“The results were remarkable: the Hmga1 protein stimulated heart muscle cells to divide and grow, significantly improving heart function”, says Bakkers."
"Researchers from the Bakkers group at the Hubrecht Institute have successfully repaired damaged mouse hearts using a protein from zebrafish. They discovered that the protein Hmga1 plays a key role in heart regeneration in zebrafish. In mice, this protein was able to restore the heart by activating dormant repair genes without causing side effects, such as heart enlargement."
"“The results were remarkable: the Hmga1 protein stimulated heart muscle cells to divide and grow, significantly improving heart function”, says Bakkers."
Cancer cells ‘poison’ the immune system with tainted mitochondria
Immune cells lose their cancer-fighting prowess after taking tumours’ organelles on board.
Immune cells lose their cancer-fighting prowess after taking tumours’ organelles on board.
Concept Cells Help Your Brain Abstract Information and Build Memories | Quanta Magazine
Individual cells in the brain light up for specific ideas. These concept neurons, once known as “Jennifer Aniston cells,” help us think, imagine and remember episodes from our lives.
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A pioneering new treatment promises to tackle a wider range of cancers, with fewer side-effects than conventional radiotherapy. It also takes less than a second.
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The ultra-fast cancer treatments which could replace conventional radiotherapy
A pioneering new treatment promises to tackle a wider range of cancers, with fewer side-effects than conventional radiotherapy. It also takes less than a second.
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How to Hit Peak Fitness After 40
You can’t train in middle age like you did in your 20s. But if you’re strategic, your best days can still be ahead.
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You can’t train in middle age like you did in your 20s. But if you’re strategic, your best days can still be ahead.
Can you hit peak fitness after 40? Here's why your best days may be ahead of you
Peak fitness is attainable after 40, despite the decline of certain physical abilities. Experts advise adjusting training methods, focusing on strength, endurance, and recovery, and prioritizing proper nutrition and sleep.
Groundbreaking surgery in Leeds: First UK patient has tumour removed through eye socket
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Groundbreaking surgery in Leeds: First UK patient has tumour removed through eye socket - Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Surgeons at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have performed a groundbreaking procedure, removing a tumour through the eye socket.
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Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – Japan study
A Japanese study underscores the potential of higher potassium intake, particularly at dinner time, in relation to improved sleep.
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Men have grown twice as much as women over past century, study shows
Tall people at greater risk of cancer 'because they have more cells'
Tall people at greater risk of cancer 'because they have more cells'
Sleeping pills stop the brain’s system for cleaning out waste
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Erectile Dysfunction Risk Lower With Regular Grape Juice Consumption
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CIA believes lab leak most likely caused COVID outbreak
The US spy agency points the finger at China while acknowledging it has "low confidence" in its own conclusion, which is based on fresh analysis of intelligence about the spread of the virus.
To quote from that news report:-CIA believes lab leak most likely caused COVID outbreak
The US spy agency points the finger at China while acknowledging it has "low confidence" in its own conclusion, which is based on fresh analysis of intelligence about the spread of the virus.news.sky.com
The agency's assessment assigns a low degree of confidence to this conclusion, suggesting the evidence is deficient, inconclusive or contradictory.
Publishing this assessment now with no new evidence looks like the CIA telling the new masters what they want to hear.
The last scientific assessment I saw on this was the BMJ review , published a few months ago https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9420317/ which considered the evidence for the two alternative theories.
Of course the reason that evidence is lacking is that Chinese government has systematically prevented proper investigation so that only circumstantial evidence is available. Right from January 2020 they shut down access, including suddenly hiding the genetic database of virus samples held by the WIV in Wuhan. Previously, virologists world wide had access. then it suddenly vanished. Chinese government is VERY focused on reputation and face. My view is that from their point of view, it can not be seen that mishandling of research occurred.
If this was a natural development of a virus that transferred species, certain things would certainly be seen:
- there would be animal host populations of very near identical viruses rapidly found
- the emerging virus would at first find it difficult to transfer between individuals of the new target species, until it further mutated after a period of circulation in the new host population
- there would be genetic variation in the virus when it emerged in the new hosts as is normal
None of the above happened. The nearest virus that has ever been found is RaTG13 which the Wuhan lab had and still holds. It is 96% the same as Sars-Cov-2, but that is still way off and too big a jump to suddenly turn into Sars-Cov-2 inside a bat or a civet or anything else. It is many mutations away, which is why we KNOW that WIV and Professor Sheng's team re-engineered it.
Shengs's team applied for grants to Eco Health Alliance in America to do 'gain of function research' on bat corona viruses. That means they were genetically engineering bat viruses at Wuhan to see how far they were from infecting human tissue.
The grant application made around 2017 specifically talks about the process of using a technique called 'serial passage' using humanised mice to walk the virus through mutation steps to be able to infect human tissue. It also talks about infection of the ACE2 receptor and use of furin clevage in that receptor to aid infection. THESE FEATURES ARE FEATURES OF Sars-Cov-2.
Other bat coriona viruses do not have such features.
The new plague burst out, perfectly adapted to human ACE2 infection in the late part of 2019 , a handful of kilometres from that lab.
It's slam dunk unless you have a vested interest in hiding what happened. Part of the problem is that virologists world wide do this kind of research and they don't want it banned, so useful fools in the west muddy the waters by ignoring the obvious. To face up to it and the potential species ending risk would lead to a world wide ban on this kind of work.
READ THIS:
Leaked Grant Proposal Details High-Risk Coronavirus Research
The proposal, rejected by the U.S. military’s research agency DARPA, describes the insertion of human-specific cleavage sites into bat coronaviruses.
theintercept.com
How Furin and ACE2 Interact with the Spike on SARS-CoV-2
The novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 is caused by the viral agent SARS-CoV-2. Like other coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2 has a transmembrane glycoprotein called the spike or S protein. It is responsible for viral entry into cells, and is the target of considerable research interest. Furin...
www.assaygenie.com
Hearing Wrap Up: EcoHealth Alliance Should be Criminally Investigated, Formally Debarred - United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
EDIT:
I forgot to mention that much of the work at the WIV was conducted at a low level of bio security. BSL2 and not what should happen with dangerous virus work (BSL4). The levels employed for some of the work consisted of aprons and masks and rubber gloves. It is VERY easy in such conditions for a research worker to get infected.
Viruses - sometimes dangerous ones regularly escape labs in China and elsewhere. It has happened here twice - once at Porton Down and once in Birmingham. Chinese labs had SARS1 escape three times. Fortunately, being a natural spillover virus, it was not that good at human to human transmission and was bottled up again. In 2014 viles of live small pox were unexpectedly found in a cupboard in a lab in Maryland. Dangerous viruses have been sloppily sent in the ordinary post by careless lab workers.
We need tight controls on work such as this.
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Considered the evidence & concluded that "on the information here reviewed, there is not yet a definitive and well demonstrated conclusion on the origin of SARS-CoV-2."
So NOT a "slam dunk".
Remember, the 7th World Military games were held in Wuhan Oct 18th to 28th 2019. When was the first case of covid 19 in Wuhan confirmed? Was it 2 weeks later? Did some of the French army return from those games with a new mystery illness?Of course the reason that evidence is lacking is that Chinese government has systematically prevented proper investigation so that only circumstantial evidence is available. Right from January 2020 they shut down access, including suddenly hiding the genetic database of virus samples held by the WIV in Wuhan. Previously, virologists world wide had access. then it suddenly vanished. Chinese government is VERY focused on reputation and face. My view is that from their point of view, it can not be seen that mishandling of research occurred.
If this was a natural development of a virus that transferred species, certain things would certainly be seen:
- there would be animal host populations of very near identical viruses rapidly found
- the emerging virus would at first find it difficult to transfer between individuals of the new target species, until it further mutated after a period of circulation in the new host population
- there would be genetic variation in the virus when it emerged in the new hosts as is normal
None of the above happened. The nearest virus that has ever been found is RaTG13 which the Wuhan lab had and still holds. It is 96% the same as Sars-Cov-2, but that is still way off and too big a jump to suddenly turn into Sars-Cov-2 inside a bat or a civet or anything else. It is many mutations away, which is why we KNOW that WIV and Professor Sheng's team re-engineered it.
Shengs's team applied for grants to Eco Health Alliance in America to do 'gain of function research' on bat corona viruses. That means they were genetically engineering bat viruses at Wuhan to see how far they were from infecting human tissue.
The grant application made around 2017 specifically talks about the process of using a technique called 'serial passage' using humanised mice to walk the virus through mutation steps to be able to infect human tissue. It also talks about infection of the ACE2 receptor and use of furin clevage in that receptor to aid infection. THESE FEATURES ARE FEATURES OF Sars-Cov-2.
Other bat coriona viruses do not have such features.
The new plague burst out, perfectly adapted to human ACE2 infection in the late part of 2019 , a handful of kilometres from that lab.
It's slam dunk unless you have a vested interest in hiding what happened. Part of the problem is that virologists world wide do this kind of research and they don't want it banned, so useful fools in the west muddy the waters by ignoring the obvious. To face up to it and the potential species ending risk would lead to a world wide ban on this kind of work.
READ THIS:
Leaked Grant Proposal Details High-Risk Coronavirus Research
The proposal, rejected by the U.S. military’s research agency DARPA, describes the insertion of human-specific cleavage sites into bat coronaviruses.
How Furin and ACE2 Interact with the Spike on SARS-CoV-2
The novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 is caused by the viral agent SARS-CoV-2. Like other coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2 has a transmembrane glycoprotein called the spike or S protein. It is responsible for viral entry into cells, and is the target of considerable research interest. Furin...
Hearing Wrap Up: EcoHealth Alliance Should be Criminally Investigated, Formally Debarred - United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountabilityoversight.house.gov
EDIT:
I forgot to mention that much of the work at the WIV was conducted at a low level of bio security. BSL2 and not what should happen with dangerous virus work (BSL4). The levels employed for some of the work consisted of aprons and masks and rubber gloves. It is VERY easy in such conditions for a research worker to get infected.
Viruses - sometimes dangerous ones regularly escape labs in China and elsewhere. It has happened here twice - once at Porton Down and once in Birmingham. Chinese labs had SARS1 escape three times. Fortunately, being a natural spillover virus, it was not that good at human to human transmission and was bottled up again. In 2014 viles of live small pox were unexpectedly found in a cupboard in a lab in Maryland. Dangerous viruses have been sloppily sent in the ordinary post by careless lab workers.
We need tight controls on work such as this.
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By the time the Chinese first reported the problem, the disease was already out and all over the world. Wuhan was strongly connected to external links.
Remember how they put that doctor in jail for saying in an interview that the disease was spreading person to person? He later died of the disease.
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