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Ezplaz: Freeze-Dried Plasma Gets FDA Approval
Vascular Solutions, LLC, has been given U.S. Food and Drug Authority authorization for its Ezplaz Freeze Dried Plasma for transfusion in adults. Beginning in 2017, Public Law 115-92 made it possible d...
Earth Sciences
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How Do Scientists Know Climate Change Made A Heat Wave Worse?
When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused climate change influence this event, if at all?For many years, scientists could...
Life Sciences
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Why Both Stimulating And Blocking GLP-1R Helps People Lose Weight
Understanding which brain circuits respond to weight loss medications and how they behave could lead to better weight loss with fewer side effects. A new study (in mice, so only EXPLORATORY) found tha...
Medicine
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PROTEXI Cancer Vaccine Platform Based On SARS-CoV-2 Immune Memory
A new cancer vaccine platform works by enhancing the ability of the immune system to recognize cancer by leveraging anti-viral memories it already has - due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the worst o...
Physical Sciences
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In Defense of the Kardashev Scale. Energy usage as the universal observable of a civilization.
It has been argued that the Kardashev scale is wrong; advanced civilizations will make progress by being more efficient or using more information or managing the entropy they produce, resulting in usi...
Social Sciences
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Warning: Cannibalism Will Turn You Into A Zombie Russian Nesting Doll
Humans are calorically dense enough that it is no surprise that some ancient cultures engaged in cannibalism - or even more modern people in the right circumstances.(1) Yet it is also taboo. In Christ...
