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    How not to do Gender testing in Pattaya.

    A Sri Lankan tourist was assaulted by a transgender woman armed with high heel shoes on the city’s beach road Saturday night after he daringly touched her genitals twice to verify her gender--then refused to pay or proceed with any services. Police and rescuers from Sawangboribul Foundation...
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    The Trojan Drones.....

    Ukrainian security services conducted a massive drone attack against Russian military airbases on Sunday, striking thousands of kilometres from the front line in what President Volodymyr Zelensky said was their longest-range operation ever. The operation, code-named "Spider's Web," required...
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    Major progress towards an effective HIV Vaccine.

    In the long battle to create an effective HIV vaccine, scientists have made a major leap forward. A new study shows that a series of vaccines can coax the immune system to produce powerful antibodies capable of blocking a wide range of HIV strains-including those that are typically the hardest...
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    Grand Hyatt Colombo: 21 Years of Delays, Debt, and Disappointment

    Once envisioned as a symbol of luxury and ambition, the Grand Hyatt Colombo remains an incomplete monument to Sri Lanka’s turbulent economic and political history, even 21 years after construction began. Originally launched in 2003 as Ceylinco Celestial Residencies by the late billionaire...
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    Genetic Link to Long Covid Discovered.

    Recently, the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm carried out a groundbreaking genome-wide association study (GWAS) focused on long COVID using HGI data. This extensive study analyzed information from 24 research projects conducted in 16 different countries, involving 6,450 patients diagnosed...
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    Waist to Height ratio is a better predictor of Heart Failure risk.

    Recently presented research at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). shows that the Waist to Height Ratio (WtHR) is much better predictor than the BMI for Heart Failure risk. "The median WtHR in our analysis was considerably higher than 0.5, the cut-off for increased cardiometabolic risk...
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    Another Gene-Editing Milestone.

    Infant with rare, incurable disease is first to successfully receive personalized gene therapy treatment. US doctors rewrite DNA of infant with severe genetic disorder in medical first. The doctors carried out the painstaking process of identifying the specific mutations behind the infant's...
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    New Drug for Obesity from Syntis-Bio.

    A new once-daily pill may raise the bar for weight loss meds. Ozempic, Mounjaro and similar drugs that mimic the GLP-1 hormone the body naturally produces after eating can cause significant weight loss, but a potential side effect is loss of lean muscle mass. The makers of the experimental...
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    Why Does Fentanyl Feel So Good?

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    Why some cats are Orange - an old mystery finally solved.

    Two independent teams identified a DNA deletion that causes pigment cells to produce a yellow-red color rather than the default brown-black, solving a mystery that has stumped scientists for decades. Researchers knew the genetic instructions for ginger fur resided in the X sex chromosome. Most...
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    Indo_Pak war in a nutshell.

    Looks like all parties achieved their KRA (Key Result areas) - Pakistan got loan, China tested their missile system - (some of these were duds or they sold duds), Turkey tested their drones, India and Russia tested S400 and Brahmos, France tested Rafale, some terrorists got their 72 virgins...
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    Maryna Viazovska - Fields Medal Winner

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    How Martin-Baker May Have Accidentally Exposed Undisclosed Rafale Crashes.

    How Martin-Baker May Have Accidentally Exposed Undisclosed Rafale Crashes When it comes to fighter jet crashes, there’s one company that often knows the truth—even when governments stay silent. That company is Martin-Baker. So, who exactly is Martin-Baker? They are the world’s leading...
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    What If It Rains Bananas For A Day?

    Another Kurzgesagt video.....
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    Future of Flying - Cirrus

    Link: https://cirrusaircraft.com/aircraft/vision-jet/
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    Shocking Discovery: An Organism like living electrical wires.

    Scientists identified a new electrically conductive bacterium, Ca. Electrothrix yaqonensis, with potential applications in pollution cleanup and bioelectronics. Researchers have discovered a previously unknown species of bacteria capable of conducting electricity, potentially paving the way for...
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    Gene-edited Immune Cells against Advanced GI Cancers.

    "With our gene-editing approach, the checkpoint inhibition is accomplished in one step and is permanently hardwired into the T cells." - Beau Webber, PhD, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School and Masonic Cancer Center researcher. Researchers at the University of...
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    Snake collector’s immunity quest opens path towards a Universal Antivenom.

    Blood from man bitten hundreds of times by deadly species is used to create most broadly protective antivenom yet. He has self-administered more than 850 doses of venom from cobras, mambas, rattlesnakes and other deadly species in pursuit of a singular quest: to develop immunity to snake bites...

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