Noteworthy News

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Antimicrobial proteins from oyster hemolymph improve the efficacy of conventional antibiotics

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/articl...ne.0312305

[Nanny]

^My wife has been battling a resistant lung infection for the past 14 months. Scientific research to improve the efficacy of antibiotics is vital to the public health

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^My wife has been battling a resistant lung infection for the past 14 months. Scientific research to improve the efficacy of antibiotics is vital to the public health

Curious, what's the offending organism?

[Nanny]

Bacillus cereus. She's immunocompromised due to multiple sclerosis.

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Bacillus cereus. She's immunocompromised due to multiple sclerosis.

Thanks, hadn't seen that before.

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Scientists examining the remains of a man who died after Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD made a surprising discovery. The eruption had somehow turned his brain into glass.

https://www.reuters.com/science/mount-ve...5f2e6f2a84

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EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a white man who seized a Black family and forced them into slavery south of the Mason-Dixon line is still being cited in American jurisprudence, 160 years after enslaved people throughout the U.S. were freed.

Prigg v. Pennsylvania has been cited in 274 other rulings since then, according to the Citing Slavery Project at Michigan State University. They are among more than 7,000 direct citations of slavery-law precedents that continue to guide lawyers and judges, said the project’s director, law professor Justin Simard.

This research into the lasting impact of legal principles related to the ownership of other humans is a counterpoint to efforts by the Trump administration and elected officials in Republican-led states to remove references to America’s racial history and dictate what teachers can discuss in classrooms.

“Because people are invested in trying to pretend that our history of slavery didn’t happen and that its effects are not still with us,” Simard told The Associated Press, “I thought, what better way to prove that slavery had an influence on our legal system than using official legal sources?”

https://apnews.com/article/citing-slaver...34cbb7088a

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Cis woman confronted by police officers in Arizona Walmart restroom for looking too masculine speaks out

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