Frontiers | CAR T-cell therapy in autoimmune diseases: a promising frontier on the horizon Although current treatments for autoimmune diseases can effectively control symptoms, they rarely lead to cures and often require lifelong use, accompanied b...

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Shows chimeric autoantibody receptor (CAAR) T cell attacking autoimmune disease causing autoreactive B-cell - leading to apoptosis and a reduction in autoantibodies. Meanwhile, non-autoreactive B cells survive and become plasma cells in a 'reset, calmer' immune system.

Chimeric autoantibody receptor (CAAR) T cells are showing promise in treating autoimmune disorders. Basically, the patient's T-cells are genetically modified to attack the disease causing B cells which are attacking the healthy body tissues - 'resetting/calming' the immune system.

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‘Science needs defending’: record number of researchers run for office in US mid-terms Many Democrats making the switch to politics are motivated by the Trump administration’s cuts to science — whereas energy and AI are a pull for some Republicans.

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The number of scientists running for office has tripled in the USA!

End-to-end contact enables long-distance electron transport between filaments in cable bacteria Abstract. Filamentous cable bacteria are capable of centimeter-scale long-distance electron transport and play crucial roles in the biogeochemistry of aqua

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The fact that cable bacteria make wires from mud and then pass electrons along them is just infinitely cool to me.

They can be pretty picky about soil conditions so if it’s growing despite that wacking it got, I’d let it be. 😳 Moving forward, if you want it to bush out, you can carefully trim the highest meristem each year. That will encourage lateral meristems to compete for apex and grow out.

Impact of charge homogeneity on ion selectivity in polyamide membranes - Nature Water The conventional focus on pore size distribution overlooks the role of surface charge homogeneity in ion separation by polymeric membranes. This study proposes a surface charge engineering strategy fo...

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Thermodiffusive separation concept and device implementation. Credit: Nature Water (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s44221-025-00428-5

Looking into Thermodiffusive Desalination - it’s literally a temperature gradient where you split the hot from cold water. Salt concentrates in cold water.

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Microbial Communities Powering Plant‐Microbial Fuel Cells: Diversity, Functions and Biotechnological Perspectives Bacterial and archaeal communities power plant-microbial fuel cells. This review integrates current knowledge through comprehensive tables and knowledge graphs, emphasising microbial diversity, funct....

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Plant‐microbial fuel cells (PMFCs) are a cool concept - harnessing the transferal of electrons that all organisms do at some level. The plants help provide the sugar (and other metabolic products) while the battery harnesses the energy bacteria produce breaking the products down.

Frontiers | Reducing Climate Risks by Improving Food Production and Value Chains: A Case of Sandy Soils in Semi-arid Kenya Due to climate change, extreme weather events are becoming recurrent worldwide, causing significant reductions in agricultural production and food security. ...

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25 cm wide Curved membranes installed at 40 and 60 centimeters under plant roots.

Not sure how I feel about current subsurface water retention technology (SWRT). Interesting for sustainable farming but installing subsoil sheets of polyethylene (plastic) seems messy for future generations to have to clean up.

Pelargonic Acid: From Historical Uses to Future Perspectives in Sustainable Agriculture Pelargonic acid (PA), or nonanoic acid, is a saturated fatty acid with a nine-carbon chain and low toxicity. Although initially applied in processes, PA has gained relevance in agriculture as a bioher...

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One of the fun things about plants is their chemicals. For instance pelargonic acid was IDed in Pelargonium. It’s a medium chain, saturated fatty acid used as a mild herbicide because it can disrupt cell membranes (like soap) but like most fatty acids, it breaks down quickly in the environment.

Identification of a PFAS hyperaccumulator and elucidation of its translocation mechanism for sustainable phytoremediation - Nature Communications Phytoremediation of PFAS contaminated soils is limited by the lack of hyperaccumulators. Here, the authors identify an acclimated PFAS hyperaccumulator, Oenothera rosea, and propose a sustainable reme...

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Huh. Oenothera rosea (Pink Evening Primrose) is a PFAS hyperaccumulator. So you could grow it, harvest and dispose of the leaves to reduce PFAs in your soil.

Yes!

This one was an intense read. The simultaneous enhancement and loss of touch with her human lover was a bit mind bending for me.

I don’t think so! 😊

Love Robin Hobb! Her Soldier Son Trilogy was particularly wild.

Read some of Hambly’s fantasy more recently. Very satisfying Sword & Sorcery. ❤️

Icecream and popcorn.

Alex Pretti’s last words were “Are you ok?”

Editing a book where my protag is struggling with being chosen as the avatar for a god of vengeful justice is… still going slow. 😞

Genuinely, I've forgotten how search results used to function and what finding articles easily was like. I installed the DuckDuckGo browser after that vote thing the other day and turned off all the AI and oh my gosh, search results ✨ work ✨

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Made it through 17/35 chapter edits. Onward we plod.

a puppet is sitting at a desk in front of a map of the united states of america ALT: a puppet is sitting at a desk in front of a map of the united states of america

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