Anirbanius Mitros
@anirbanius
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fun and fundas, biologist, science explainer for the general audience, diehard Indian, retweets are factoids not always in agreement.
Joined July 2020
The "Headache" that kills in 24 hours.🧵 As a doctor, this is the one diagnosis that genuinely scares me. Bacterial Meningitis doesn't give you days to "wait and see." It gives you hours. By the time you realize it's not just a flu, it’s often too late. 👉Stop scrolling and
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Scientists just made 50-year-old skin cells behave like they’re 20 again. Researchers at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge have developed a groundbreaking method to reverse the biological aging of human skin cells by approximately 30 years, all while keeping them as fully
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trump said he did not want anybody’s help two days ago. And now he calls NATO partners “cowards” because they are not helping him in the war which he has already won.
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Scientists have used stem cells to make bioengineered oesophagi that they successfully implanted into pigs, restoring the animals’ ability to swallow and eat https://t.co/jPR57g2icE
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Nature - Engineered tissue could eventually be used for children born with gaps in their alimentary canal, or for adults whose muscles have been damaged by cancer.
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For 2 years, the most expensive Alzheimer’s drug on the market worked. Nobody could explain exactly why. Now they can. Lecanemab (Leqembi) doesn’t just stick to toxic brain plaques. A structural fragment called Fc flips a genetic switch inside microglia. The brain’s immune
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the massive tragedy engulfing sooooooooooooo many of us Indians.....
Man took a day's leave, travelled 200 km from UP's Shahjahanpur to his hometown in Barabanki to procure LPG cylinder for his bed-ridden parents. Was seen standing outside a gas agency at 3 am in the morning.
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Vaccines don't just protect the person who receives them. @HelenBranswell does brilliant work breaking down the knock-on benefits we've quietly taken for granted and stand to lose. @statnews
https://t.co/CPDUJz4UCC
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Many vaccines confer surprising knock-on, or indirect, health benefits when they have been put into widespread use.
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Type 2 diabetes mellitus in @Nature Reviews disease primers đź”— https://t.co/bkAd1oNRgq Must read!
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medicines for lpg. and payment in chinese currency. fair enough.
Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in India says, "The first shipment of medical aid from the esteemed people of India has been delivered to the Iranian Red Crescent Society. We sincerely thank the kind people of India." (Video source: Embassy of the Islamic Republic of
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#GamesHospitalsPlay How did private healthcare become prohibitively expensive? What sends your hospital bills skyrocketing and how to deal with it @Nidhi and I will be discussing @quillandcanvas on March 26 Do come
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The Chinese released imagery yesterday to the effect that the USS Abraham Lincoln had retreated well south of the Arabian Peninsula from its previous station some 350km from the Iranian coast, this after CENTCOM reported engaging an "Iranian vessel" that approached the carrier.⬇️
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Scientists are investigating how to turn mosquitoes into “flying vaccines” to target deadly viruses like Nipah and rabies right at their source.
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So let me get this straight: 1. Netanyahu's been "appearing" via AI slop videos for a week. 2. Trump is clearly losing his grip on reality. 3. The Ford's little laundry fire was actually closer to the Forrestal Incident. 4. The Lincoln put Oman between it and Iran. Jesus Christ.
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A NEW review examines how COVID-19 may affect memory and cognitive function. ➡️ Evidence suggests that inflammation in the brain, activation of immune cells called microglia, and possible vascular injury can disrupt normal brain signaling. ➡️ These changes may contribute to
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Wrote this on Feb 22, six days before trump-bibi launched this war. Made three assessments: The Iranian state was holding firm; the hardliners were exhausting the diplomatic options; Iran would rather prefer war than giving up its ballistic missiles. Resharing this for all those
Over the past two days, I talked to a diplomatic source, a journalist and a security analyst in Tehran. These are the takeaways. 1. The state appears to be holding firm despite the internal strains and external threats. The rebellion has been crushed--most casualties were in
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trump on March 8, to UK PM — we don’t need people that join wars that we have already won. trump on March 14: Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK and others will send ships to the Hormuz area. (As I said earlier, the best way to analyse the progress of the war
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A Cyclonic History of Calcutta! 🌧️ 🧵 Cyclones often leave with memories of pain, agony, and distress, but owing to some historic storms that hit Kolkata, our city got some of its interesting places and alterations. Let's discover the cyclonic snapshot of Calcutta.
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The Chinese government is ramping up its support for science https://t.co/UpZ5jH1WHP
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Nature - Funding for national laboratories and important research projects would increase under the government’s plans.
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RIP Robert Trivers - the Einstein of evolutionary biology and one the greatest thinkers of our age. Among other things, Trivers came up with parental investment theory, reciprocal altruism theory, and parent-offspring conflict theory.
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Diabetes doesn’t just affect blood sugar. For many people, it slowly damages the eyes, leading to blindness if it isn’t detected early. That’s where Artelus is making a difference. The startup has built DRISTi, an AI-powered tool that can check for diabetic eye disease in under
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