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    Another SriLankan scammer in Australia

    The Daily Mirror reports...... A Sri Lankan-born Melbourne financial planner, Terence Rio Rienzo Nugara, accused of pilfering about $10 million from the superannuation funds of vulnerable clients, pleaded guilty in the County Court last month to 37 charges of obtaining a financial advantage by...
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    The Scientist Robbed of the Nobel Prize.

    Pioneer Molecular Biologist - ROSALIND ELSIE FRANKLIN Born: London, July 25, 1920 Died: London, April 16, 1958 There is probably no other woman scientist with as much controversy surrounding her life and work as Rosalind Franklin. Franklin was responsible for much of the research and discovery...
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    Immunoglobulin Saga

    Every new morsel of info that emerges raises more questions than answers. Health Authorities still don’t know what was in the human immunoglobulin 5g vials that were sold to its Medical Supplies Division (MSD) by a local company named Isolez Biotech Pharma AG, purportedly on the basis of “fake”...
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    Angry Old Men set the Middle East Ablaze - The Young will pay the price.

    Copied as received... Incompetent and discredited leaders, in thrall to worn-out ideologies, have brought Israel and Gaza to this catastrophe. Old men start wars. Young men and women fight them. It’s a phenomenon that has broadly held true throughout history. Now, once again, in today’s...
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    Fanzors - Thousands of DNA cutters from Algae, Snails and other organisms.

    A diverse set of species, from snails to algae to amoebas, make programmable DNA-cutting enzymes called Fanzors. Scientists at the MIT have identified thousands of them. This was initially announced early this year but has gone into publication now. Fanzors are RNA-guided enzymes that can be...
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    Pure Spider Silk from genetically modified Silkworms.

    Spider silk is prized for its unrivaled strength and toughness. But figuring out a way to mass-produce it is no easy feat. Spiders cannot be put to work to pump out the fibers the way silkworms can: They’re extremely territorial and inclined to eat their neighbors, and they refuse to keep at the...
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    50 Year old Möbius mystery finally solved.

    Everyone has certainly heard about the Möbius strip. The German mathematicians August Ferdinand Möbius and Johann Benedict Listing independently discovered it in 1858. While Möbius got the naming rights, both men were drawn to its peculiar property: its unending surface. There are some...
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    Ancient Life as Old as the Universe.

    Another Kurzgesagt video.
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    NASA Psyche Mission

    The Psyche spacecraft will journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid with the same name, orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. This is NASA’s first mission to study an asteroid that has more metal than rock or ice. With its solar arrays deployed, NASA's Psyche spacecraft would just about...
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    Nobel Prize Winners - 2023

    Forgot my usual post about the Nobel Prize winners till now.... even though planned to do so. The Prizes Awarded so far... The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of...
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    Caught in one's own trap.

    More information has surfaced on the reportedly lost Chinese Nuclear submarine. This was reported initially in 21 August 2023 and China denied it. No surprise there. EXCLUSIVE: 55 Chinese sailors are feared dead after nuclear submarine 'gets caught in a trap intended to snare British and US...
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    How to Answer Tough Questions.

    An old video...Tharman Shanmugaratnam & BBC's Stephen Sackur - Contrast the difference in the performance.
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    India's Indri Whisky trumps British single malts.

    An Indian whisky has emerged as the world's best. The Indri Diwali Collector’s Edition 2023 won the coveted 'Best in Show, Double Gold' award at the 2023 Whiskies of the World Awards...
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    Are We Rotting Or Rotten?

    Copied as received.... Apart from being poet and playwright William Shakespeare was an incisive political commentator. In ‘Hamlet’ he has a lowly sentry Marcelus keeping watch on the battlements of the king’s castle noticing the reappearance of the ghost of the king delivering the famous line...
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    Killer T-cells less effective in older adults.

    A world-first discovery has revealed special immune cells called ‘killer T cells’ in older adults, directed against influenza viruses, closely resemble those found in newborns and children, but struggle to recognize infected cells – a finding that unlocks the potential for the development of...
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    Can ageing be reversed?

    PS: I Remember that had previously written about Yamanaka factors. Rapamycin is a mTOR inhibitor. It was isolated in 1972 from a bacterium found on Easter Island, aka Rapa Nui – hence the name. For many years it was an obscure transplant drug but in the early 2000s was found to significantly...
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    Breakthrough in Dementia Research/Alzheimer's

    A major breakthrough in dementia research has been reported, 40 years in the making. Dementia Researchers at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital, have discovered that the nerve cell connections responsible for restoring memory, can not only be preserved, but restored. At the same time, they’ve...
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    Why mtDNA (Mitochondrial DNA) is Maternally Inherited?

    Mitochondrial DNA is the circular chromosome found inside the cellular organelles called mitochondria. Located in the cytoplasm, mitochondria are the site of the cell’s energy production and other metabolic functions. Offspring inherit mitochondria — and as a result mitochondrial DNA — from...

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