The Nebulizer

Doing everything I can to get a doctorate. Or Two.

[lalandsla]

how to love others from abc and dmx!!!!!!

[jazlynthethoughtdaughter]

Wow

[joosh-actual-deactivated2018092]

X gonna give it to ya

“It” is wisdom, apparently.

[wnq-philosophy]

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

John F. Kennedy | @wnq-philosophy (via wnq-philosophy)

[englishmajorhumor]

[softchad]

scrubs but we can’t hear JD’s thoughts

[medresearch]

New Asthma Biomarkers Identified From Lung Bacteria

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine suggest that the lung microbiome plays a significant role in asthma severity and response to treatment.

Studying patients with asthma, the researchers identified two phenotypes by assessing the microbiome and airway inflammation. 

“This tells us the microbiome has relevance beyond the gut, and that it is a potential biomarker for asthma,” said Dr. David Perkins, professor of medicine and surgery at UIC.

“The data suggest that further study of the microbiome may help to develop more personalized treatment recommendations for patients with asthma,” said Dr. Patricia Finn, the Earl M. Bane Professor of Medicine at the UIC College of Medicine.

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Funding: The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (5R01AI053878), one of the National Institutes of Health, funded the research.

Raise your voice in support of expanding federal funding for life-saving medical research by joining the AAMC’s advocacy community.

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[piecomic]

TBT

[kenyatta]

So, here’s the problem: headphones, as we have understood them for decades, were once terrifically simple. You could plug any headphones from virtually anywhere into virtually anything, and they would just work. Anyone could make headphones, anyone could sell them, and all of those people could address the entire market of people who wanted to listen to things. As the headphone jack disappears, the obvious replacement isn’t another wire with a proprietary connector like Apple’s Lightning or the many incompatible and strange flavors of USB-C audio. It’s Bluetooth. And Bluetooth continues to suck, for a variety of reasons. Newer phones like the iPhone 8, Galaxy S8, and the Pixel 2 have Bluetooth 5, which promises to be better, but 1) there are literally no Bluetooth 5 headphones out yet, and 2) we have definitely heard that promise before. So we’ll see. To improve Bluetooth, platform vendors like Apple and Google are riffing on top of it, and that means they’re building custom solutions. And building custom solutions means they’re taking the opportunity to prioritize their own products, because that is a fair and rational thing for platform vendors to do. Unfortunately, what is fair and rational for platform vendors isn’t always great for markets, competition, or consumers. And at the end of this road, we will have taken a simple, universal thing that enabled a vibrant market with tons of options for every consumer, and turned it into yet another limited market defined by ecosystem lock-in.

Bluetooth won’t replace the headphone jack — walled gardens will (via kenyatta)

[gobblechopstv]

Seymour’s Armin is showing.

[maisonderriere]

[joosh-actual-deactivated2018092]

[scienceasfuck]

You know what’s exciting?

electrons moving to higher sub shells

[cupcakelogic]

a msg to u from the dog that finally learned how to give me the dang ball

[medresearch]

New Drug Effective Against Malaria

Researchers from Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, the Tulane School of Medicine, and a team at the University of the Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako in Mali, have worked together to develop  a new drug that is effective against non-severe cases of malaria.

Their research, including the results of an FDA-supervised clinical trial, is published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

The drug, called AQ-13, was able to clear the parasite responsible for the disease within a week, matching the effectiveness of the most widely used treatment regimen.

“The clinical trial results are extraordinarily encouraging,” said Dr. Donald Krogstad, senior author and professor of tropical medicine at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. “Compared to the current first-line recommendation for treatment of malaria, the new drug comes out very well.”

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Funding: This work was funded by the US Food and Drug Administration Orphan Product Development, National Institutes of Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Burroughs-Wellcome Fund, US State Department, and WHO.

Raise your voice in support of expanding federal funding for life-saving medical research by joining the AAMC’s advocacy community.

[scienceshenanigans]

[dxmedstudent]

Seems legit.

[nevver]

The New Yorker

[adventuresinchemistry]

Least favorite lab equipment?

idk it really depends on the day

but my favorite lab equipment will always be our hand crank centrifuge

[jewishdragon]

im sorry the what

[adventuresinchemistry]

this bad boy, for when you’re too lazy to walk up two flights of stairs to the shared lab space with the preparatory centrifuge but not too lazy to put some elbow grease into spinning your shit down

[metricparty-deactivated20221104]

Method: Samples were centrifuged at whatever rotations per minute (RPM) Joey “the beast” McRipped could achieve on his saucy days. We’re not sure how fast, but it was impressive. Supernatant decanted off and….

[msmarvel]

[awaywardhill]

imagine waking up in this town and realizing you were robbed in the night but then you remember the asshole sheriff won’t do anything until noon

[comedycentral]

Scientists say the most beautiful words in the English language are “open bar.”