Matt Willemsen @Nonog@fedibird.com

Scientists Discover Promising New Approach for Treating Pancreatic Cancer
New research has identified ‘amoeboid cells’ as culprits in the spread of pancreatic cancer and revealed that targeting the molecule CD73 can hinder their harmful activity. This finding suggests a new treatment strategy for pancreatic cancer, which has remained one of the deadliest cancers with low survival rates.
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-promising-new-approach-for-treating-pancreatic-cancer/ #Treating #Pancreatic #Cancer #AmoeboidCells #CD73 #MyosinII

JWST May Have Finally Confirmed How Planets Take Shape
JWST data processed by an international team of researchers backs up the theory of 'icy pebble drift', which is thought to be vital in bringing together the dust and rocks that eventually turn into planets like our own.
https://www.sciencealert.com/jwst-may-have-finally-confirmed-how-planets-take-shape #JWST #planet #formation #hypothesis #IcyPebbleDrift

Osteoarthritis Breakthrough: New Research Shows That the Condition May Be Treatable and Reversible
A groundbreaking study from the University of Adelaide reveals that osteoarthritis may be reversible through a new treatment targeting Gremlin 1 gene-marked stem cells.
https://scitechdaily.com/osteoarthritis-breakthrough-new-research-shows-that-the-condition-may-be-treatable-and-reversible/ #Osteoarthritis #Treatable #Reversible #stemcells #fibroblastgrowthfactor18 #FGF18) #Gremlin1

@TomSwirly Thanks for the warning.

Four-Week Experiment Reveals an Ingeniously Simple Way to Boost Your Sleep Quality
So much of our health is tied to banking good quality sleep every night, and a new four-week experiment has revealed a simple way anyone can improve the quality of their slumber: keeping the bedroom well-ventilated.
https://www.sciencealert.com/experiment-reveals-a-simple-way-to-boost-your-sleep-quality #sleep #quality #ventilation #health

Protective vaccination rates falling out of reach in US; exemptions hit record
Vaccination exemptions among kindergartners rose from 2.6% to a record high of 3%.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/protective-vaccination-rates-falling-out-of-reach-in-us-exemptions-hit-record/ #Protective #vaccination #exemptions #children #health

Boosting Brain Connectivity: Cannabis May Enhance Empathy and Emotional Perception
A study in the Journal of Neuroscience Research suggests that regular cannabis users may have an improved ability to understand others’ emotions, supported by stronger connectivity in the anterior cingulate, a brain region associated with empathy.
https://scitechdaily.com/boosting-brain-connectivity-cannabis-may-enhance-empathy-and-emotional-perception/ #Connectivity #Cannabis #Enhance #Empathy #Emotional #Perception #AnteriorCingulate

Last Laughs
Can you die from laughter?
Is there any truth to the phrase "I'm dying of laughter"?
https://www.livescience.com/health/can-you-die-from-laughter #laughter #risk #syncope #vagusnerve #hypertension

Breathtaking Discovery: Unearthing Microfossils That Redefine Life’s Evolution
Scientists have discovered ancient microfossils in Western Australia, offering new insights into the rise of complex life during the Great Oxidation Event. These findings, which show similarities to algae, could redefine our understanding of life’s evolution and the potential for complex life forms in the universe.
https://scitechdaily.com/breathtaking-discovery-unearthing-microfossils-that-redefine-lifes-evolution/ #Microfossils #Evolution #GreatOxidationEvent #australia #life

@shoq Please don't start down this road.

So Long, And Thanks For All The Fossil Fuels
Earth Was More Attractive to Aliens Back When Dinosaurs Roamed
They found that two key biomarker pairs would have been stronger some 100 to 300 million years ago: oxygen and methane, and ozone and methane. That's primarily down to a proliferation of greenery delivering significantly higher levels of oxygen into the atmosphere back then.
https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-was-more-attractive-to-aliens-back-when-dinosaurs-roamed #oxygen #methane, #ozone #dinosaurs #aliens #PyewPyew

Android spyware delivered through infected news site targets Urdu speakers in Kashmir
Researchers from cybersecurity firm ESET said they discovered a brand of Android spyware called Kamran that is allegedly being distributed through a so-called watering hole attack involving a compromised news website called Hunza News.
https://therecord.media/android-spyware-infected-news-site-targets-urdu-speakers-kashmir #spyware #urdu #news #Kamran #HunzaNews #kashmir

Goddamit!
I just found one on my leg.

A whole lot of 'splainin' to do
If We Could Find Them, Primordial Black Holes Would Explain a Lot About the Universe
There are three known types of black holes in the Universe: supermassive black holes, in the centers of galaxies, stellar-mass black holes: remnants of massive stars, and intermediate-mass black holes, tfound in dense clusters of stars. But there is a fourth, hypothetical type of black hole known as primordial black holes (PBHs). If they exist, they could solve a few cosmological mysteries.
https://www.universetoday.com/164181/if-we-could-find-them-primordial-black-holes-would-explain-a-lot-about-the-universe/ #BlackHoles #universe

Time now to say Fuck Netanyahu.
Enough is enough, and this is too much.
The bastard will never be satisfied.
The aim now is to kill Palestinians.

FDA approves world's 1st chikungunya vaccine
There's now an FDA-approved vaccine for chikungunya, a mosquito-spread virus that can cause fever, severe joint pain, and rarely, death.
https://www.livescience.com/health/medicine-drugs/fda-approves-worlds-1st-chikungunya-vaccine #worlds #first #chikungunya #vaccine #FDA #approved #mosquitoes #mozzies #kimakonde #Ixchiq

Meta-Analysis of Postcancer Use of Immunosuppressive Therapies Shows No Increase in Cancer Recurrence Risk
Patients with immune-mediated diseases and a history of malignancy had similar rates of cancer recurrence whether or not they were receiving immunosuppressive treatments
https://www.medscape.com/s/viewarticle/998366 #MetaAnalysis #Postcancer #Immunosuppressive #Therapies