Tilapia skin apparently works well enough to cover the exposed dermis in burn cases. I wonder what's the status with spray-on skin that was working so amazingly well.
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Another advancement in longevity research. Aging is accompanied by a buildup of senescent cells. One component of the regulation of this is the differentiation of CD4 T cells into Eomesodermin (Eomes)+CCL5+ T lymphocytes (CD4-Eomes). This system was not known when I was in school. Who heard of this before 2019. Now it looks like it plays an important role in preventing some of the bad outcomes of aging, like tissue fibrosis and inflammation.
And Swiss scientists created an artificial bone marrow model. This is really fantastic, and could be a new research platform. Paper here.
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Yes! The job market is heating up — for jobs that people usually don’t want. This needs to happen. It'll be painful in the beginning, but it's better this way.
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SCOTUS must stop mail-in voting. And also, the counting of votes for days after the election has been completed. Where we count and count until the "preferred" candidate wins.
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So much government money goes into wasteful and fraudulent non-profits. NGOs may have noble names, but are money-wasters.
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Providence Oregon is announcing layoffs of 150 jobs. "recent policy changes and regulatory pressures"
Providence Swedish is announcing layoffs of 296 jobs. "state and federal Medicaid cuts to state and city business occupation taxes, commercial insurer denials, and a drop in procedural volumes"
Clearly Obamacare has lost its lustre. These hospitals operate in Blue states that view any entity with assets and cashflow as their piggy bank. And they depend on unionized workers that also want to put the squeeze on. Not good.
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