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Should plastic be banned? How to reduce the use of plastic?

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What is Plastic? Plastic is a synthetic or semi-synthetic material made from a wide range of organic polymers, including polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polystyrene, and many others. These polymers are derived from natural gas or crude oil through a chemical process, which involves the combination of monomers to form long chains of polymer molecules. …

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Machine learning identifies T cell receptor repertoire signatures associated with COVID-19 severity

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  TCR repertoires from COVID-19 patients and healthy donors reveal trends in CDR3 gene usage and diversity To determine if there were any global patterns that distinguish the immune repertoires of COVID-19 patients, we systematically compiled and analyzed TCR-seq samples (total n = 2130) from COVID-19 patients and healthy donors (Fig. 1A, Supplementary Dataset S1). TCR repertoire datasets were …

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Can fruit and vegetable ingredients make dairy products healthier?

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  Excessive sugar consumption has been scientifically linked with serious health problems such as diabetes and heart disease. Across the globe, regulators have taken steps to raise awareness of the health risks associated with high sugar consumption, including introducing stricter guidelines for recommended intake and taxing sugary products to incentivize consumers to opt for healthier …

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Addressing Patient Subgroups Is a Key Topic During Breast Cancer Conference

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  Recent updates to clinical care for patients with ER-positive disease include the emergence of breast cancer subtypes, oral selective estrogen receptor degraders, and other oral targeted therapies. The emergence of breast cancer subtypes and novel management approaches in ER-positive disease, including oral selective estrogen receptor degraders and other oral targeted therapies, place a greater …

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Milk Production Can Be “Kick-Started”After a Pause in Breastfeeding – Now We Know How

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  A new study from the University of Sheffield has identified a protein that supports milk production after a pause in breastfeeding. The research is published in PLOS Biology. A fail-safe mechanism for breastmilk production If an infant has been breastfed, once they progress to solid foods a molecular process commences in the breast tissue. …

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While boosting twice a year reduced infections the most, a Yale study author said it's not realistic to ask people to get vaccinated that often.

When to get a COVID booster? Data says annually to prevent outbreaks

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  Healthy people should get annual COVID-19 boosters to prevent widespread outbreaks, a new study from Yale University suggests. Yearly shots provide just enough frequency to prevent huge outbreaks, while not putting an undo burden on people. “There seems to be an inflection point” at about a year, said senior author Jeffrey Townsend, a biostatistician and evolutionary …

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Evaluation of critical care burden following traumatic injury from two randomized controlled trials

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  We performed a secondary analysis of harmonized data derived from the Prehospital Air Medical Plasma (PAMPer) Trial and Study of Tranexamic Acid during Air and Ground Medical Prehospital Transport (STAAMP) Trial. The PAMPer Trial (NCT01818427) was a multicenter, prehospital, cluster-randomized trial that compared outcomes in injured patients at risk of hemorrhagic shock who received thawed …

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The future of single-cell microfluidics in cell engineering

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  By Richard Hammond, chief technical officer at Sphere Fluidics Single-cell microfluidic-based techniques continue to be a key enabling technology for cell engineering as they allow true single-cell level working, with the associated precision of measurement and control of environment, and a high level of automation, enabling the speed and scale necessary to process and …

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WHO to launch council to accelerate the development of TB vaccine

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  The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has significantly impacted tuberculosis (TB) related services, which has increased the urgency of TB vaccine development. One of the most important lessons from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic is that innovative health interventions can be delivered fast if they are prioritized politically and financed adequately”. Recently, …

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