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Posts Tagged ‘x57s’
Robert Durst Found Guilty of Murder After Decades of Suspicion – The New York Times
September 26, 2021Oral delivery of systemic monoclonal antibodies, peptides and small molecules using gastric auto-injectors | Nature Biotechnology
September 25, 2021https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-021-01024-0
An easily swallowed capsule injects drugs straight into the gut https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02443-4
fermented foods
August 28, 2021How Fermented Foods May Alter Your Microbiome and Improve Your Health
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/well/eat/yogurt-kimchi-kombucha-microbiome.html
Foods like yogurt, kimchi, sauerkraut and kombucha increased the diversity of gut microbes and led to lower levels of inflammation.
ARTICLE| VOLUME 184, ISSUE 16, P4137-4153.E14, AUGUST 05, 2021
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00754-6
Gut-microbiota-targeted diets modulate human immune status
Hannah C. Wastyk 7
Gabriela K. Fragiadakis 7
Dalia Perelman
Dylan Dahan
Bryan D. Merrill
Feiqiao B. Yu
Madeline Topf
Carlos G. Gonzalez
William Van Treuren
Shuo Han
Jennifer L. Robinson
Joshua E. Elias
Erica D. Sonnenburg
Christopher D. Gardner
Justin L. Sonnenburg 8
Published:July 12, 2021
The long goodbye to covid-19 | The Economist
August 14, 2021https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/07/03/the-long-goodbye-to-covid-19
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“In Britain, where Delta is dominant, the fatality rate if you become infected is now about 0.1%, similar to seasonal flu: a danger, but a manageable one.”
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Liked the “shifts”!
Also, thought the following quote was quite interesting: “In Britain, where Delta is dominant, the fatality rate if you become infected is now about 0.1%, similar to seasonal flu.” So if we get covid & flu shots each year, both diseases will become comparable, in a sense? Mark Gerstein
Learning to Love G.M.O.s – The New York Times
August 7, 2021QT:{{”
In his talk, Baker noted that there are hundreds of kinds of berries in the world. But among those we commonly call berries, we eat just four: strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and blackberries. There’s a reason the other varieties rarely reach us. Sometimes the fruit rots within days after picking (salmonberries), or the plant puts out fruit for only a few weeks in summer (cloudberries)….
Black raspberries, one fruit that Pairwise hopes to bring to market, used to be widely grown in North America, until a virus decimated them. (The red raspberries we eat now originally came from Turkey.) The revived version, which will be in field trials in 2024, has been engineered to be thornless and seedless, while retaining the fruit’s signature jammy flavor.
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The unseen covid-19 risk for unvaccinated people
July 17, 2021This is the first newspaper article I’ve seen with a *methods* section at the end (which describes how #covid19 death rates could be “adjusted” for vaccine status)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2021/covid-rates-unvaccinated-people
The unseen covid-19 risk for unvaccinated people
By Dan Keating and Leslie Shapiro
This story was published a few weeks ago but remains incredibly important as the delta variant spreads throughout the U.S.
The country’s declining covid-19 case rates present an unrealistically optimistic perspective for half of the nation — the half that is still not vaccinated.
As more people receive vaccines, covid-19 cases are occurring mostly in the increasingly narrow slice of the unprotected population. So The Washington Post adjusted its case, death and hospitalization rates to account for that — and found that in some places, the virus continues to rage among those who haven’t received a shot. Read more »
