shreddy_scientist

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[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Well, vaccines are very different than antibiotics. While there was the first new antibiotic made in ages earlier this year that's highly selective for specific bacteria, it only works against gram-negative bacterial cells. C. diff is gram-positive and has been an issue for a long time. It's notorious for it's recurrence rate as it's great at surviving conditions which kill most bacteria. It infects 500,000 people each year, with 20%+ of them being a reoccurring infection. Since new antibiotics are very tough to engineer, a vaccine makes way more sense and it will provide treatment for half a million people annually moving forward!

[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Yep! The mRNA vaccine project started in the 1980's and to provide an elaborate use case, they designed it to be a "blank check". Meaning whatever disease, toxin, allergy, autoimmune disorder, or cancer researchers want to vaccinate against is likely possible.

 

A new vaccine provides hope for treating and even preventing the highly contagious and difficult-to-treat Clostridioides difficile infection, more commonly known as C. difficile or C. diff. In animal models, this first mRNA-LNP C. difficile vaccine was found to protect against C. difficile first-time infections and relapsing infections by inducing a robust immune response, promote clearance of existing C. diff bacteria from the gut, and even overcome deficits in host immunity to protect animals after infection, according to researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The results, published in the journal Science, will pave the way for clinical trials of the vaccine.

 

A major new study reveals that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from forest fires have surged by 60% globally since 2001, and almost tripled in some of the most climate-sensitive northern boreal forests.

[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

With diffusion being a foundational aspect of solutes mixing in solutions, the water should have an even distribution of the contaminants. However, the tidal force of water associated with a storm surge probably throws a wrench in the plan here. But generally, it's evenly spread throughout and will be found in relatively even amounts everywhere the water settles.

[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

Ya, the house is in the persons name. But if they struggle to keep up with payments, it can become the banks home.

[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (10 children)

Same with homes, renting can provide lower monthly payments vs a mortgage. But with a mortgage you own the home and eventually you'll have no monthly payment, whereas renting means you'll always pay and the landlord has the final say in matters.

[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't know, it really all comes down to preference, but Gambit and Rouge are a pretty damn solid duo!

[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, the research paper from the study doesn't reference dopamine at all. It focuses on electric pulses associated with visual interpretations of the environment. It does reference a reward system stating "arguably the main purpose of extracting the underlying structure of temporal sequences is to predict what is likely to happen next in order to choose appropriate actions and maximize reward." But it appears as if this is variable for each situation for each participant. Nonetheless, I like where your head's at, I just don't see it being associated with the analysis.

[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

I love this wallet incorporates monero mining, it's a simple yet awesome approach!

[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

Well, the focus of the Israeli attacks were initially in the greater Gaza Strip area, which is in Southern Gaza. So this wouldn't make much sense to have been posted 6 months back. But being posted now demonstrates the expansion of the Israeli attacks. Nonetheless, I get where you were coming from with it.

[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's odd, it seems fine on my end. But here's another instance link: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=4sfIBRTcRpU

[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So Ubuntu has a version called Lubuntu, which used to come with LXDE, but now it comes with LXQt. So this will require you to install LXDE with the tasksel command, unless you start with Ubuntu desktopless. But I'd say to definitely check out Kubuntu, it's the KDE version, and I feel like KDE and LXDE are quite similar. Both have an older windows overall appearance.

[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Looks like trolCommander, muCommander, and WinSCP all have FTP support on Windows.

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