Mark Davison

Three million child deaths linked to drug resistance Children in Africa and South East Asia are most at risk from antibiotics medicines no longer working, a study suggests.

Three million child deaths per year linked to antibiotic resistance. Major bacterial threats will re-emerge for all of us, unless we control the use of antibiotics, and discover new ones. 🧪

Priority pathogens: UK draws up new disease-threat watch list Some are viruses with global pandemic potential - like Covid - others infectious illnesses with no treatments.

Pathogens to watch. 🧪

Lab-grown food could be sold in UK in two years The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is looking at how it can speed up the approval process for lab-grown foods.

Lab-grown food that tastes like real meat could be transformational. It can improve animal welfare (no death), climate change (uses less water, creates less GHGs), biodiversity (less farmland = more nature), hygiene (eg. no bird flu), and more. Interesting to see how this goes. 🧪

You're right. Deleted. Seemed like a good idea in my head but was in fact dumb.

Happy to organise a demo for your lab (by Teams or on-site).

That's the theory. Each protocol is different but this device gives them the best chance.

Having a bad day? My lucky Ace of Spades banana can help. Scientifically endorsed by Lemmy's ghost. 🧪

Controlled Rate Freeze Thaw - CRFT The CRFT is a programmable freezing and thawing system that allows you ultimate control of cryopreservation research protocols.

Ice makes your organoids go bang in poor thawing protocols. Accept low yields and variable results, or fix the problem with electrically controlled freeze-thaw. Same great result every time. Small and cost-effective. Every stem cell or organoids lab needs one. 🧪

Sweetener aspartame aggravates atherosclerosis through insulin-triggered inflammation Wu et al. provide new insights into how aspartame consumption exacerbates atherosclerosis through an insulin-dependent mechanism. Aspartame-triggered high insulin levels upregulate the endothelial mem...

Sweetener aspartame aggravates atherosclerosis. 🧪

AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years The lead researcher has told the BBC he was so astounded he assumed his computer had been hacked.

Meet the AI Microbiologist 🧪

There are many ways Trump could trigger a global collapse. Here’s how to survive if that happens | George Monbiot It could be wildfires, a pandemic or a financial crisis. The super-rich will flee to their bunkers – the rest of us will have to fend for ourselves, writes columnist George Monbiot

Civilization is tissue-thin. Dead ones were great once, too. Read Jared Diamond's "Collapse" for an analysis of how it happens. Or Shelley's "Ozymandias" for a more poetic warning.🧪

Migraine is more than a headache — a radical rethink offers hope to one billion people Drugs that can prevent or relieve migraine attacks are only effective for some people. Research is starting to untangle the reasons why.

Very interesting progress on migraines.
Article is behind a paywall but there's enough visible to get the gist. 🧪

Storyville - Keeping It Up: The Story of Viagra Twenty-five years ago, Viagra kick-started the second sexual revolution and a controversy unlike any drug before it. From Wales to New York, this is the big story of the little blue pill.

Keeping It Up: The Story of Viagra. Fascinating BBC documentary, and great insight into big pharma's workings. 🧪

A reassessment of the “hard-steps” model for the evolution of intelligent life Humans—and analogous life beyond Earth—may represent the probable outcome of biological and planetary coevolution.

Intelligent life may evolve more easily than we thought. Interesting read. 🧪

Pope Francis's health a 'complex clinical situation', Vatican says The pontiff will remain in hospital for as long as necessary, the Vatican has said.

Pope Francis has a "polymicrobial infection". He's wise enough to know that hopes-and-prayers don't replace science (strong antibiotics). He's also pro-vax. 🧪

Male-male interactions shape mate selection in Drosophila Male-male competition strongly influences mate selection in Drosophila, with males performing wing flicks to repel their rivals and jam a female’s perception of other potential mates. Recruitment of p...

"A male’s ability to subvert his rivals is central to his reproductive success" Fruit fly world is like high school. 🧪

Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads The deadly cancer is often not found until it has spread to other parts of the body.

Potential game changer test. Prognosis for pancreatic is usually terrible because it is often stage 4 when discovered. 🧪

The Who - Substitute The Who - Live At The Fillmore East 1968 out now! Check it out: https://lnk.to/TheWhoFillmoreEast Explore more music from The Who: https://lnk.to/TheWhoBestOf Follow us: https://www.instagram.com/officialthewho/ https://www.facebook.com/thewho/ https://twitter.com/TheWho #TheWho Music video by The Who performing Substitute. (C) 1988 Polydor Ltd. (UK)

Indeed. Also "I was born with a plastic spoon in my brain" is (almost) the opening line from verse 2 of "Substitute" by The Who.

Your brain is full of microplastics: are they harming you? Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists are scrambling to understand their effects on health.

Microplastics: 10g isolated per donated human brain. That's two teaspoons. Imagine that's not great for microvasculature....🧪

Study implies that basic life abounds in the Universe. So why can't we find aliens? See Fermi Paradox for possible reasons 🧪 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_p...

Tricky, but the major generalist journals (Nature, Science, Cell, PNAS etc) often have a News and Views section on their websites which summarises articles of wider interest, and/or email newsletters. The BBC is also a good source for popular but accurate science summaries.

Impact of physical activity on physical function, mitochondrial energetics, ROS production, and Ca2+ handling across the adult lifespan in men Cefis et al. show that mitochondrial respiration and ROS production are not affected during healthy muscle aging but identify altered mitochondrial calcium handling as a potential key driving mechanis...

Physical activity helps protect against age-related decline in physical performance. Use it or lose it. 🧪

Therapeutic brain-computer-interfaces for glioblastoma, with Dr Elise Jenkins The Big Experiment · Episode

And cancer. Worth a listen.
open.spotify.com/episode/7G2o...

Earth's inner core may have changed shape, say scientists The findings shed light on a deeply mysterious part of Earth that is key to life on our planet.

Europe explodes into space as earth's core changes shape. Visual proof below. 🧪 UK still oddly cold.

A great listen for medical device engineers, cancer biologists, oncologists, and anyone affected by this horrible disease 🧪

Therapeutic brain-computer-interfaces for glioblastoma, with Dr Elise Jenkins

Killing glioblastoma (brain cancer) with a brain-computer- interface. Hear my podcast guest discuss:

🩺 Tiny sensor fits inside a skull drill hole
🚦 Detecting differences in cancer brain signal
💡 Sending data through skin, without wires
⚡ Power without a battery
🔦 "Tuning out" cancer growth

Therapeutic brain-computer-interfaces for glioblastoma, with Dr Elise Jenkins The Big Experiment · Episode

Brain cancer, and how to fight it with amazing tech. Great podcast episode! 🧪 open.spotify.com/episode/7G2o...

That's awful. Let's hope we never see those times again.

One out of two assertions was correct, I was being charitable 😁

Predominant Role of Bacterial Pneumonia as a Cause of Death in Pandemic Influenza: Implications for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Despite the availability of published data on 4 pandemics that have occurred over the past 120 years, there is little modern information on the causes of death associated with influenza pandemics. We ...

Definitely. Flu floors you and then bacteria stick the boot in. As neatly summarised by Dr Fauci in 2008...🧪