Link. Surgery + Paclitaxel + CD47 antibody + cavity filling gel. Many years from human trials but I don’t think we’ve had anything this promising before. I’ve lost 3 friends to glioma.
Daily Archives: May 6, 2023
FDA approves fecal microbiota transplantation pill for C Difficile prophylaxis.
Link. Dramatic improvements in clinical trials.
A post-COVID encephalopathy anecdote – since improving.
Link. Nothing showed on MRI but her relative recovery argues against a coincident dementing disorder. Hope she gets entered into a registry/study.
“Nauru decided to one-up the offshore accounts and offer corrupt kingpins the privilege of an offshore bank instead. For $25,000, anyone on the planet could set-up their own entirely independent financial institution, housed in a server on Nauru.”
Link. Awesome story.
Airbnb developments including “rooms”.
Link. My Airbnb experiences have been fun. But I have weird ideas of fun.
AI with hyperdimensional vector computing.
Link. Augments neural networks.
Natural Chemistry Oddities: “Two terpenoid fragments joined up at opposite sides of a (counting. . .) nineteen-membered ring is not something I’d have come up with any time soon. Why the plant has chosen to do so …”
Link. Evolution scrounges.
Familial Clonal Hematopoiesis in a Long Telomere Syndrome
Link. “familial clonal hematopoiesis syndrome that was associated with a range of benign and malignant solid neoplasms. The risk of these phenotypes was mediated by extended cellular longevity”. Trade longer cell life for higher neoplastic risks; this is something that was widely expected.
American supplements – pharmacologic activity, unknown effects.
Link. America: “… we have a huge industry that provides all sorts of pills, extracts, creams and what have you, things that all of that industry’s customers treat as medical substances, but which don’t really have to show evidence safety or efficacy before being sold.”
“The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved GSK’s vaccine for the respiratory syncytial virus, or R.S.V., for adults who are 60 and older”
Link. I’ll be in line.
“a new breed of knockoff purses has come onto the scene from China — boasting shockingly good quality and slipping through customs gates like sand through a sieve.”
Link. No jury would convict.
China now censors poverty references and “bans sad videos of old people, disabled people and children”.
Link. The homeless are disappeared.
“the angle of the bench press doesn’t much affect the upper pectoral muscles, but the angle definitely affects the lower pec muscles.” Decline wins by a lot.
Link. Surprising result.
Feinstein is doing a Ginsburg.
Link. She has to go. Now.
WaPo poll shows trans attacks likely to work for GOP — esp limits on child hormone use.
Link. Dems will mostly try to change the subject.
AI model programming: “Mojo is a brand new language that’s designed to take full advantage of MLIR. And also Mojo is Python.”
Link. Tsai is disappointed with the state of Swift.
“The workers’ negotiators also want Apple to adopt a tipping system, letting patrons offer gratuities in increments of 3%, 5% or a custom amount for in-store credit-card transactions.”
Link. I hope they memory hole this demand super fast.
Gruber translates Ford CEO laughter at GM CarPlay block: “I can’t believe our good fortune that GM is doing this”
Link. I wonder if Ford will use GM’s dumb move in commercials. Some subtle dig at the end of the usual cat stuff.
“At the right of that line is an ⓘ button: click on it to see the dialog above, allowing you to uninstall that RSR”
Link. Apples emergency updates are easy to undo.