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Millions are heading back from the holiday facing snow and an artic blast
US’ Gaylord, Michigan set a new record for the most snow in a day on Friday with 24.8 inches (64 cm), according to the weather service’s Gaylord office. The lake-effect snow could accumulate to more than a foot (30 cm) over the eastern Upper Peninsula by the time it stops on Monday morning. New York has declared a state of emergency.
Read MoreAustralia has a ban on social media for under 16s
Social media platforms including Instagram and TikTok will be liable for fines of up to AU$30 million (around 220 crore) if they fail to comply with Australia’s social media age law. Under the law, platforms will have to take “reasonable steps” to remove underage users from their platforms. The bill passed the Australian Parliament last week.
Read MoreIsrael fired after the truce with Hezbollah
Israel and Hezbollah have agreed on a ceasefire to end a month-long war between the two countries, US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron said. The deal “will stop fighting in Lebanon, and secure Israel from threat of Hezbollah and other terrorist organisations operating from Lebanon,” they added. Over 70 people were killed in the fighting between the two countries.
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You have to be present on Black Friday to find the Therabody Deals
The PowerDot 2.0 Duo is an electrical nerve stimulation device that uses impulses to target specific areas to help with muscle recovery and relieve periods. The device has five frequencies that can be used with the Therabody app to target sore muscles. It is sold for $549 (over 32,000) at Therabodydeals.com.
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If you test these techniques outside of the lab, you can see that chemicals can be destroyed with clever chemistry
A group of chemists at Colorado State University in the US used absorbed energy to reduce the C– F bond to Carbon–hydrogen but not in temperatures of 40C or above. The chemistry department of the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei uses this energy to break bonds in as low as 40C.
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A human atlas has a continuous tissue axis
We used a network propagation approach to identify disease-relevant and cell cluster-specific subunits of our transcription factor network. differential expression-based marker gene scores for each cell cluster were propagated in same way, resulting in cell cluster specificity scores for each network node. For the multimodal analysis, we subsetted the full scRNA-seq dataset to include only paediatric data and removed T lineage cells without CITE-seq protein information.
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Researchers receive an updated look at the Human Cell Atlas, and it is remarkable
A team of international researchers has developed a Human Neural Organoid Atlas of 1.1 million cells, which they hope will lead to a better understanding of how metaplastic cells develop in human infants and children. The atlas was developed by combining 36 single-cell data sets with 26 protocols for making organoids from cultured cells.
Read MoreThere is a lot of off-brand oral ozompic for sale online
Several US compounding pharmacists said that they had received cease and tetanus letters from drugmaker Eli Lilly before the shortage of its anti-obesity drugs Ozempic and WeGovy ended. “Compounding copies of these FDA-approved drugs are not a long-term therapy for these patients,” Scott Brunner, the CEO of the Alliance for Pharmacy Compounding, the industry trade group, said.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been nominated by Donald Trump toOversee US Public Health
US President Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr., is a former lobbyist for the food and drug industry. Kennedy will oversee 13 federal agencies, including the US Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Kennedy suspended his campaign in August and threw his support behind Trump.
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What is going on with the’magic’ drug?
A study found that for 11 of the 100 children with severe malaria in Uganda, it took longer than normal to kill at least half the parasites in the bloodstream. The World Health Organization (WHO) considers these kids to have partial drug resistance (it’s not complete resistance because the kids did eventually get better).
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