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steve from amherst

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  1. Special Counsel Robert Hur has defended his assessment of President Joe Biden’s “poor memory”, as he gave testimony before members of the United States Congress on Tuesday.

    Hur told the House Judiciary Committee that the evaluation was fundamental to his investigation into whether the president intentionally hoarded classified documents during his time out of office.

    “My task was to determine whether the president retained or disclosed national defence information willfully — meaning knowingly and with the intent to do something the law forbids,” Hur told the committee. “For that reason, I had to consider the president’s memory and overall mental state.”

    Questions about Biden’s memory arose after Hur released a special report in February that described the president fumbling to recall details, including dates surrounding his son Beau’s death.

    In the report, Hur wrote that Biden, 81, would present to a jury “as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory”

  2. Millions of people living with type 1 diabetes around the world don't have reliable access to insulin. Due to their bodies' inability to produce the hormone, they have to inject it to ensure that glucose can enter cells to produce energy.

    But finding an affordable and reliable source of insulin has remained difficult in many parts of the world.

    Now, a team of scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, have found a radical new way to produce the stuff: a gene-edited cow that produces human insulin in its milk.

     

    "Mother Nature designed the mammary gland as a factory to make protein really, really efficiently," said University of Illinois animal sciences professor Matt Wheeler, lead author of a new paper published in the Biotechnology Journal, in a statement. "We can take advantage of that system to produce a protein that can help hundreds of millions of people worldwide."

    As detailed in their paper, the researchers inserted a segment of human DNA coding for the precursor of active insulin called proinsulin into the cell nuclei of ten cow embryos.

    Out of the ten embryos, one gene-edited calf was born in Brazil. Once matured, the cow was impregnated and stimulated to lactate using hormones.

    To their surprise, the cow not only produced proinsulin, but even insulin in her milk.

    "Our goal was to make proinsulin, purify it out to insulin, and go from there," Wheeler said in the statement. "But the cow basically processed it herself. She makes about three to one biologically active insulin to proinsulin."

    "The mammary gland is a magical thing," he added.

    The gene-edited cow produced the equivalent of a gram per liter — a significant quantity, since you only need a fraction of a milligram per dose.

    "That means each gram is equivalent to 28,818 units of insulin," Wheeler explained. "And that's just one liter; Holstein [cows] can produce 50 liters per day. You can do the math."

  3. 2 hours ago, HSR is a cuck said:

    I don't know why kids are so much different these days where they just don't value life. We had access to the same guns when I was growing up, and kids before that, mass shootings were unheard of. It's got to be a factor of things combined and right now there's no correction insight 

    I think a lot of it is social media. When we were kids the goofy fucks got bullied for 4-5 hrs a day while at school. Now they get it 24/7. It consumes them.

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  4. 9 minutes ago, Bontz said:

    Do you ever post using your brain, instead of emotion?  Nevermind - you don't have to answer that.  We all know :lol:

    " But I hate him so much, he is yukky "

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