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Scientists unlock biological secrets of the aging process In my news feed this morning . Interesting role of leaky mitochondria I don't know how " new" this research angle is, but perhaps wider implications than aging . https://phys.org/news/2023-10-scientists-biological-secrets-aging.amp

COVID 19 - assessment of Swedish response . Basically acknowledges they blew it https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01097-5

Last week was a local business week and I went along to a seminar hosted by a self confessed tech nerd on AI. He is an eternal optimist and I do agree with him that we are at a transition point akin to before electricity and how it changed everything. He played down the negatives . I have a...

Brilliant letter @Hutan. I hope it has not cost too many spoons and you both are able to rest up for a while , and it properly makes its mark . Thank you

From my Google feed today . Interesting - repurposing of usual coupled stop codons in single celled organism. https://www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/news/organism-found-in-university-pond-rewrites-the-rules-of-dna-379612

And the flip side - woman are more at risk of developing long COVID .

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Yes, that's exactly what struck me too. Some people are more vocal than others, ( does this mean less pain experienced?) some people are " too brave " , some are told to " be brave" . Nuts

Interesting re evidence. Cochrane couldn't do a meta analysis as "studies all used different ways of assessing pain. Some of them asked the patient how much pain they felt, others asked the physician how much pain they thought the client was in, and many did not report enough of the pain...

Having had concerns re recent pain guidelines , the news that NICE' s recommendations now feature sterile water injections for pain relief for childbirth has me flabbergasted. I am lucky, I had straightforward births with minimal pain relief , however I have friends who struggled ( back labour...

They clearly have established a reputation .

78% is not a whole number 22% not improved is not insignificant. It would have been interesting to see if there was any correlation between those defined as moderate to severely disabled and levels of improvement. Good to see autonomic dysfunction being diagnosed . It would have been good to...

Interesting article . I wonder if this has been considered in context of ME/ CFS https://phys.org/news/2023-09-junk-dna-gene.html

We have put off a smart meter for the past 5 years - largely as the first few iterations were too hackable. The default " send info" on smart meters is generally every 30mins and this provides patterns of use - this has already been used in research looking into dementia. Does anyone know if...

My daughter's blood has been noticeably thicker and slower on a couple of occasions ( normally no issues , if anything she's a " spurter") This coincided with gastro problems which took a lot out of her. So perhaps linked to severity and/ or something else going on concurrently. She's not...

I have ended up with more than 1sewing machine . A present from an old lady (electric conversion of old singer which is wonderful for thick fabric ) a Brother which I bought to replace a very old one bought cheaply from eBay - this has a start -stop button a Silver machine given by one of...

If you have a dry sense of humour posts from the Vertlartnic may raise a chuckle. Otherwise the graphics are succinct at getting info across the melee of misinformation

Moved post Thread worth reading .. James Coyne has also been active on X ( twitter) re Weasley , Carson et al ETA coyne tweet