Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀

Testing menstrual blood

Testing menstrual blood for human papillomavirus (HPV) could be a “robust alternative or replacement” for current cervical cancer screening by a clinician, finds a BMJ study from China
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Good luck with that!! Or with book sales, so you can have several houses in different places 😁

2026 Congress 2026 ISV ANNUAL CONGRESS PROGRAM          ABSTRACT SUBMISSION          REGISTRATION

2026 Annual Congress!! In Antwerp, Belgium, 12-14 October. isv-online.org/congress/202...

A god's asking questions - but not from your viewpoint 😎

AKA camera shake.

ISV NextGen March Webinar (EST) TITLE: Impact of needle-free delivery technologies on the vaccine-induced immune responses in pigs Speaker: Inés Có Rives, University College Cork, Ireland   TITLE: Development of an oral immunizat...

ISV Next Gen Webinar - March 5th!

Impact of needle-free delivery technologies on the vaccine-induced immune responses in pigs

Development of an oral immunization strategy against filoviruses

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Sank them in international waters, far from the conflict?! They really have gone crazy...😳😱

Excellent!!

I hope they used a working phaser??

Along with visas, the New Apartheid: how to keep the recently de-colonised from colonising you.

Astronomers discover galaxy made of 99% dark matter | CNN A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by Hubble 250 million light-years from Earth.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers with NASA identified a faint “ghost” galaxy in the Perseus Cluster that’s up to 99% dark matter and has very few stars. The discovery suggests many more nearly invisible, dark matter–dominated galaxies may be hiding in plain sight

The cover of Archangel Protocol by Lyda Morehouse. Art by Bruce Jensen. The image is of a wire frame image of a man holding a flaming sword. Behind him wings of data stream through cyberspace.

Someone spreading misinformation on the internet to influence the US presidential election? Who would ever have thought of that? Lyda Morehouse did, 25 years ago. The first book in the AngeLINK series is Archangel Protocol.
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Obsessed by piranhas??

Well, until 1988 (when we bought the house we're in now) I'd lived in 5 houses in Lusaka, Zambia (1955 - 1977), a boarding school in UK for 18 months, another in Zambia for 6 months, another in Zimbabwe for 5 years - then 9 places in Cape Town, 74 - 88. My kids grew up in this house; I'll die here!

Why Some COVID Patients Lose Taste for Years Researchers identify a reduction in the PLCβ2 protein as the cause for long-term sweet, bitter, and umami taste loss in post-COVID patients.

Why Some COVID Patients Lose Taste for Years

Isolating vesicle-cloaked viruses in city and hospital wastewater

COVID-19 ARDS survivors face lasting disability and high late mortality, researchers report In this single-center ambispective cohort of 283 Polish patients with COVID-19–related ARDS requiring invasive mechanical ventilation, cumulative mortality reached 44.5% at four years after ICU admission.

COVID-19 ARDS survivors face lasting disability and high late mortality, researchers report

Chemists create complex DNA structures without hydrogen bonds

In situ-generated vaccine-like pyroptosome for personalized cancer immunotherapy | Nature Materials An injectable pH-sensitive nanoadjuvant is shown to induce effective pyroptosis of tumours, which, combined with the in situ photoactivable release of TLR agonists, generates a strong vaccine-like response to eradicate the tumour.

In situ-generated vaccine-like pyroptosome for personalized cancer immunotherapy | Nature Materials

Even Mild COVID-19 Can Leave Lasting Brain Damage, Study Finds A new study suggests that recovery from COVID-19 may not end when respiratory symptoms fade. A mild bout of COVID-19 or influenza may have effects that continue long after obvious symptoms such as fever and coughing disappear.

Even Mild COVID-19 Can Leave Lasting Brain Damage, Study Finds

'Mini hearts' show COVID-19 virus directly infects heart tissue

Did plants nearly wipe out all marine life on Earth—twice?

Brain structure volume linked to increased social tolerance in macaques

They can strip a grown man to his bones in just 30 seconds…. No - wait; that’s piranhas 😎

The ironic thing is that I could potentially get a Polish one too/instead. Of course, not being able to speak the language at all is a LITTLE bit of a block? 🙄

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Don’t knock it: I got a Brit passport this way! I did think it might be a scam, but hey, it’s blue?!

They just released a new album, I hear? 😁

Spain Presses Europe to Denounce US Strikes on Iran as Illegal.
-Yay Spain!
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