Smileyferret

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by Smileyferret 10mo ago
Interesting article, but in the full paper their key figure (Fig 2) shows their treatment group of n=3 mice completely responded to the bacterial treatment, but their methods say they treated n=5 mice? Could be an honest mistake but that’s
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by Smileyferret 11mo ago
This is an abstract that hasn’t been peer-reviewed… based on prescription data for an over-the-counter medication. This will be horribly inaccurate because it will miss all the folks who just buy the medication on their own and never have i
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by Smileyferret 3y ago
“The specific bias in the current context is the tendency for the public to think that homeless individuals will increase spending on temptation goods (alcohol, drugs, cigarettes) when given the cash transfer compared to people who are not
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by Smileyferret 4y ago
Some interesting bits: > We recently reported the development of a “universal” phage T4 vaccine design platform by Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) engineering that can rapidly generate multivalent vacci
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A Bacteriophage-Based, Highly Efficacious, Needle-Free, Mucosal Covid-19 Vaccine(journals.asm.org)
10 points by Smileyferret 4y ago|3 comments
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by Smileyferret 4y ago
I don’t disagree with you that much of medicine is hand-waving and voodoo magic, but arrhythmias due to scar tissue likely have a similar mechanism to other well-studied arrhythmias. Overall I think that cardiology has some of the more scie
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by Smileyferret 6y ago
Not necessarily. Believe it or not, dexamethasone (another corticosteroid) is actually a second-line treatment for this disease because it reduces endogenous cortisol production without binding too tightly to the mineralocorticoid receptor
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by Smileyferret 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_mineralocorticoid_exc... We actually learned about this in med school last week, but I never thought it actually happened to people... Licorice contains glycyrrhetinic acid which