Semaglutide Found To Slow Biological Aging in Landmark Human Trial. The two studies that gave rise to headlines like these are only in HIV-positive patients.
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People living with HIV frequently experience accelerated biological aging, even when the virus is well controlled with modern antiretroviral therapy. Researchers believe chronic inflammation and persistent immune system activation play important roles.So it's not the same thing as saying that "Ozempic slows down aging".
According to lead author Michael Corley, PhD, semaglutide appeared to counter some of those effects
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Hundreds of scientists in many labs have been using a totally wrong antibody simply because its target has a similar name to the gene they wanted to study. The really shocking part is that this wrong antibody miraculously produced exactly the “right” results in their hands. Well, maybe not miraculously. A triumph of the will, one could say.
So embarrassing. Scientists were essentially caught making up results. Because they apparently thought they were working with an antibody against p16.
I always wondered why scientists could get away with calling a protein a name based on its dalton weight. Oncologists still refer to an oncoprotein as p53. And take pains to separate head and neck cancers based on whether they are positive or negative for p16. This kind of laziness or sloppiness was bound to get people in trouble. And I guess it finally has.
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The Best Red-Light Therapy for Hair Growth. Is this a joke? The pictures are suggestive, but I gotta better control data to know for sure. You can't compare a shaved head from one where you let your hair grow. I wish it were that easy.
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Loss of Prefrontal Cortical Higher Cognition with Uncontrollable Stress. Yeah, we knew that chronic stress makes you lose prefrontal cortex mass. Chronic lack of sleep will do that, too. Catecholamine release is really bad, and perhaps that is why some recommend taking a beta-blocker when you receive high-stress producing bad news. It may prevent PTSD development later. And as always, everything is worse when it happens to you when your older. And prazosin really works against PTSD-nightmares and even daymares.
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ASML invites Elon Musk to internal tech event, prompting employee backlash. Guys, remember. You were hired to do some work. No one cares about your political opinions.
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Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search. There's always been a way to manipulate search, and now there's a way to manipulate AI results. But we already knew that. I've posted about this before. Sometimes you can't trust was a chatbot says. Do your own research.
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The NewYorker reports: For the Nation’s Birthday, Making It Harder to Become an American. No, the Trump administration isn't making it harder to BE an American. It's making it harder to FAKE being an American. We all know people want to come to the U.S. so that they can take advantage of generous social welfare. Seems like all we hear about these days are more cases of fraud. Welfare fraud, Medicaid fraud, NGO fraud.
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