#low oxygen

[apologyacceptedcaptainneeda]

DONT take a persons medical device

I shouldn’t have to say that but here we are

One of the managers at work likes to take and hide peoples stuff as a joke. My manager took my pulse ox when I wasn’t looking. When I noticed it was gone I started to panic. A pulse ox is minimum $30 and I’ve had mine for over 7 years and have named it. So yeah I was panicking. I immediately paged my manager to my register and when he arrived I demanded it back. He did give it back.

I informed him that it was stupid and dangerous of him to take a medical device from someone especially like that.

So again

DONT TAKE A PERSONS MEDICAL DEVICE

[bpod-bpod]

Algae-powered Brain

The heart of this tadpole is being injected with photosynthetic green algae that can be seen pumping through the animal’s arteries. Yes, scientists really are injecting plant life into frogs and, yes, it might be the wackiest experiment ever. But, there’s method in this apparent madness because, in response to light, the algae make oxygen that can keep the frog’s brain functioning even when environmental oxygen is low. To adapt such a strategy to humans would require not only the algae to be made safe enough to prevent deadly blood vessel blockages or immune reactions, but also the ability to illuminate tissues deep in the body. As such, it's unlikely to be used anytime soon to treat heart attacks, stroke, COVID, or other conditions causing hypoxia. While researchers work through these sizeable wrinkles, however, the little green cells might be useful for prolonging viability of tissues and organs in culture.

Written by Ruth Williams

Video from work by Suzan Özugur and colleagues

Department Biology II, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Planegg, Germany

Image originally published with Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Published in iScience, October 2021

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[lunik28]

[symbiotic-science]

Biologists discover deep-sea fish living where there is virtually no oxygen

Oxygen—it's a basic necessity for animal life. But marine biologists recently discovered large schools of fishes living in the dark depths of the Gulf of California where there is virtually no oxygen. Using an underwater robot, the scientists observed these fishes thriving in low-oxygen conditions that would be deadly to most other fish. This discovery could help scientists understand how other marine animals might cope with ongoing changes in the chemistry of the ocean.

Oxygen—it's a basic necessity for animal life. But marine biologists recently discovered large schools of fishes living in the dark depths of the Gulf of California where there is virtually no oxygen. Using an underwater robot, the scientists observed these fishes thriving in low-oxygen conditions that would be deadly to most other fish. This discovery could help scientists understand how other marine animals might cope with ongoing changes in the chemistry of the ocean.

The researchers described their discovery in a recent article in the journal Ecology. The lead author of the article, Natalya Gallo, is a graduate student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She worked closely with other Scripps researchers on the paper, as well as with MBARI biologist Jim Barry, who led the research cruise.

In 2015, Barry, Gallo, and eight other researchers conducted a series of dives in several deep ocean basins in the Gulf of California using MBARI's remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Doc Ricketts—a state-of-the-art underwater robot. Gallo was particularly interested in these areas because her Ph.D. thesis focuses on animals that live in very low-oxygen environments. The deep waters of the Gulf of California have some of the most extreme low-oxygen habitats in the world.

"I could hardly believe my eyes," Gallo wrote in MBARI's cruise blog following an ROV dive in the Cerralvo Trough. "We observed cusk eels, grenadiers, and lollipop sharks actively swimming around in areas where the oxygen concentration was less than one percent of typical surface oxygen concentrations. We were in a suboxic habitat, which should exclude fish, but instead there were hundreds of fish. I immediately knew this was something special that challenged our existing understanding of the limits of hypoxia [low-oxygen] tolerance."

[apologyacceptedcaptainneeda]

Uh oh. I checked my oxygen saturation and it was 93. It hasn’t done that in a long time. Later it got down to 91. Thankfully it’s coming back up. Just now I have to monitor it more often. And have a conversation with my pcp about seeing a pulmonologist again. On top of needing to see a cardiologist. FML

[lunik28]

Lukaniko

[boundless-nocturnalsoujourn]

The fear mongering has shifted.

Before, we were running out of fresh water. That turned out to be a lie

Next, we were headed for an ice age. That turned out to be a lie

After that, we were all gonna be roasting in global warming, later changed to "climate change". That turned out to be a scam and a lie

Now, we are running out of oxygen

Can anyone guess what that will turn out to be in 5 years?

[enrapture]

Yall im so fucking sick this SUCKS