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Did anyone else ever wonder why the Black Death bacteria was so effective? It has cousins that don’t really do anything exciting. Yersinia pestis has 3 key virulence factors. First
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A note on lungs and clotting. Fibrin is an essential part of alveolar damage because whilst it impairs gas exchange it is also vita as a scaffold for tissue repair.
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One of the problems with a pandemic, beyond the obvious people who whether young and genetically vulnerable, very elderly, or those with comorbidities (often not as badly comorbid as one
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Have been thinking more about the “happy hypoxics”. That is multi factorial - like all biological phenomena there will always be extremes in the furthest 1-2% of normal physiology. There
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What is an mRNA vaccine? One that instructs the human host cell to make isolated viral proteins (not the whole virus just a surface protein!) so the immune system learns
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This is a thread on how the moon made mitochondria. So some billions of years ago (4-5billion) a Mars like body called Theia collided with proto Earth. The collision drove
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Reminder that ARDS is a syndrome of hypoxaemia NOT caused via cardiac failure with bilateral infiltrates. Triggers are bacterial infection, viruses, drowning, burns, trauma, TRALI, pancreatitis etc Just as liver
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