Liked the line: “A simple text file would do.” People should be more aware of how useful the most basic of formats is!
Posts Tagged ‘npc’
The race to save the Internet from quantum hackers
March 27, 2022https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00339-5
What if Q-day occurs on Pi-day?
Geophysical imaging of the Yellowstone hydrothermal plumbing system | Nature
March 27, 2022https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04379-1
Great story on a map of natural plumbing!
Could drugs prevent Alzheimer’s? These trials aim to find out
March 22, 2022https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00651-0
taking gantenerumab
The secret lives of cells — as never seen before
January 25, 2022The Up-Goer Five Text Editor
January 24, 2022Recently discovered the Up-Goer Five website
(https://splasho.com/upgoer5) from the
@NaturePodcast. It makes you write text using only the thousand (or ‘ten hundred’) most common words. Great for removing jargon & forcing you to explain science in the simplest possible way.
COVID antiviral pills: what scientists still want to know
December 18, 2021QT:{{”
Molnupiravir acts by introducing mutations into the viral genome during viral replication. A metabolite of the drug is picked up by a viral enzyme called RNA-dependent RNA polymerase and incorporated into the viral genome, eventually causing so many errors that the virus can no longer survive.
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Paxlovid acts by inhibiting an enzyme that’s needed to process some viral proteins into their final, functional form. But the drug is a combination of an antiviral and another drug, called ritonavir, which helps to prevent enzymes in the liver from breaking down the antiviral before it has a chance to disable the coronavirus. Ritonavir, a component of some HIV treatment cocktails, can affect how some other medications are metabolized by the body.
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Molnupiravir & Paxlovid
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03074-5
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