delthia ricks 🔬
@DelthiaRicks
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Award-winning science writer. Author. Citizen Scientist. Bylines: Newsday, Discover Magazine, Journal of the Nat'l Cancer Institute, Ms Magazine, Medical Xpress
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Joined May 2016
Race for a #coronavirus vaccine: Not since the scientific mobilization to prevent polio has there been such an intense focus on vaccine development. One scientist calls it the 21st century's Manhattan Project. By @DelthiaRicks w/ quotes from @_b_meyer
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Ants are interesting⬇️.
Desert harvester ants charge into spiderwebs to rescue their ensnared siblings, sometimes ripping the silk apart to free them. Learn more: #ScienceMagArchives @NewsfromScience
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RT @DelthiaRicks: Tylenol: Researchers develop a better way to make a popular painkiller from trees instead of petroleum. Building on a pat….
phys.org
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have developed a cost-effective and environmentally sustainable way to make a popular pain reliever and other valuable products from plants instead...
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RT @DelthiaRicks: Specific nasal cells in children have been found to protect against #Covid. There are important differences in how nasal….
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RT @DelthiaRicks: Large-scale analysis of patients with #LongCcvid after hospitalization reveals distinct subtypes. Indeed, 1 in 10 patient….
nature.com
Nature Immunology - Openshaw and colleagues find myeloid inflammation and complement activation signatures in patients with long COVID who were previously hospitalized.
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RT @DelthiaRicks: A large study has revealed that antibiotics aren't effective for most lower tract respiratory infections .
medicalxpress.com
Use of antibiotics provided no measurable impact on the severity or duration of coughs even if a bacterial infection was present, finds a large, prospective study of people who sought treatment in...
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RT @DelthiaRicks: Evolution's recipe book: How 'copy paste' errors led to insect flight, octopus camouflage and human cognition https://t.c….
phys.org
Seven hundred million years ago, a remarkable creature emerged for the first time. Though it may not have been much to look at by today's standards, the animal had a front and a back, a top and a...
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RT @MicrobesInfect: California dairies scramble to guard herds against #H5N1 #birdflu. In effort to prevent local herds from infection, of….
latimes.com
As the avian flu continues to threaten poultry farms and wildlife, are factory farms a sitting duck?
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A large study has revealed that antibiotics aren't effective for most lower tract respiratory infections via @medical_xpress.
medicalxpress.com
Use of antibiotics provided no measurable impact on the severity or duration of coughs even if a bacterial infection was present, finds a large, prospective study of people who sought treatment in...
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RT @ASMicrobiology: #MicrobiologyMonday: Modifications in tRNA regulate Candida albicans' ability to transition from yeast to hyphae & inva….
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RT @ASMicrobiology: In @JClinMicro, researchers developed an algorithm for bacterial growth detection starting with any type of specimens a….
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RT @ASMicrobiology: It's time for our first #LabWeek "Find the Hazard" challenge! . Can you spot the lab hazard in this picture? . Comment….
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RT @ScienceMagazine: Desert harvester ants charge into spiderwebs to rescue their ensnared siblings, sometimes ripping the silk apart to fr….
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Tylenol: Researchers develop a better way to make a popular painkiller from trees instead of petroleum. Building on a patented method to produce acetaminophen—the active ingredient in Tylenol—the new way, using poplar trees, promises a greener path
phys.org
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have developed a cost-effective and environmentally sustainable way to make a popular pain reliever and other valuable products from plants instead...
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Evolution's recipe book: How 'copy paste' errors led to insect flight, octopus camouflage and human cognition via @physorg_com.
phys.org
Seven hundred million years ago, a remarkable creature emerged for the first time. Though it may not have been much to look at by today's standards, the animal had a front and a back, a top and a...
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Large-scale analysis of patients with #LongCcvid after hospitalization reveals distinct subtypes. Indeed, 1 in 10 patients w/ #Covid develop post-Covid syndrome. Yet, there are nuances of difference in the manifestation of #LongCovid & its duration
nature.com
Nature Immunology - Openshaw and colleagues find myeloid inflammation and complement activation signatures in patients with long COVID who were previously hospitalized.
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RT @DelthiaRicks: Is smallpox still a threat? The viral disease killed ~500M people in the 20th century & is the only human infectious dise….
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RT @DelthiaRicks: Dr. Francis Collins discloses his 'aggressive' prostate cancer diagnosis. The former director of the Nat'l Institutes of….
medpagetoday.com
Former NIH director said he went public to 'share lifesaving information'
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RT @DelthiaRicks: In the lab: New wound treatment, using a hydrogel infused with amino acids, kills bacteria and promotes cell growth. Hydr….
phys.org
Hydrogels are popular for use in skin ailments and tissue engineering. These polymer-based biocompatible materials are useful for their abilities to retain water, deliver drugs into wounds, and...
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