New study! Learning about #inflammation by studying mammals - a tweetorial.

doi.org/10.1186/s100...

Inflammation helps fight #infection, but if it gets out of control, it can be dangerous for the host.

We like to assume that Inflammation is basically the same for all animals, but ...

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Polio vaccine is the first vaccine that RFK Jr is trying to ban

And so it begins—his war on childhood vaccines is real, extreme, & dangerous

I guess it’s back to iron lungs—that’s what people voted for, right?

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

Finding threads like this makes social media worth the effort.

"Countries which implemented NPIs while hospital admissions were low tended to experience lower gross domestic product (GDP) losses in 2020"

Not a very strong effect, however.

There is a human tissue that builds itself up and breaks itself down every 28 days (on average) using non-scarring wound healing and instead of studying that and learning everything we can about it we think it's gross and look for other less relevant models to understand wound healing.

Ruh roh

I guess they worked purely with the receptor and not a virus, so no worry about making a dreaded "gain-of-function" virus, but their finding is concerning.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...