Like getting new glasses-which is better, one or two?
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Far better than rubbings!
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Plasmalogens are found all over our bodies naturally, particularly in the heart, brain and immune cells, but as we get older, the amount in our body decreases. This loss is also a characteristic of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.
“Not only does the study imply that FGF17 has potential as a therapeutic target, but it also suggests that routes of drug administration that allow therapeutics to directly access the CSF could be beneficial in treating dementia. Any such treatments will be hugely helpful in supporting our aging population.”
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Should I go fetch a straw…?
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Preliminary confirmation of a long-held theory. The idea that this could be added to the screening for inborn errors that we do currently is really exciting!
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It’s always the right time to self treat with unproven treatments from preliminary studies of on mice.
Especially if they might target your brain. What could possibly go wrong?
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“Do you like cheese?
Try Mouse Juice™ today!!”
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[Peter Thiel has entered the chat]
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Now just 15 years away.
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Conclusion
This research highlights widespread delays to affirmation of trans children, with such delays found in nearly all parental accounts from a sample of families who could be considered ‘affirmative’, given their support for a pre-pubertal social transition. Across the dataset, extensive cisnormative barriers to support were apparent. Even though these families had supported and affirmed a trans child in childhood, at an average age of seven years old, parental narratives highlight deeply embedded resistance to trans possibilities. The study shines a light on the challenges, frustration and trauma of trans children who have experienced rejection and delay, even within families who appear to be, or who have come to be affirming, with entrenched cisnormativity impeding affirmation.
Families within this sample were unified in their positivity about supporting and affirming their child, with the only regrets spoken about being regrets at having been too slow in supporting their child. Families in this sample had experience-based insights into the negative repercussions on their child’s well-being of delay, dismissal and rejection, with every interviewee emphatic on the harms intrinsic to ‘delayed transition’. These findings highlight the need for professionals to provide better evidence-informed advice and guidance for parents and carers of trans children. Guidance can help parents be aware of, and supported to overcome cisnormative barriers to affirmation. Guidance can also help parents who are well-intentioned but uninformed recognize the harms of childhood delay, dismissal and rejection.
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Quantum internet within grasp as scientists show off entanglement demo
Researchers in the Netherlands have shown they can transmit quantum information via an intermediary node, a feature necessary to make the so-called quantum internet possible.
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So when do they just start calling this sub-space transmission?
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It’s an older story from my company, but it involves science, animals, and telemedicine so I think people here will appreciate it (for the animal pictures if nothing else.)
How do you measure a lion’s heartbeat without getting too close (or having to sedate the lion so you can get close?)
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