Douglas Ingram, president and chief executive officer of Sarepta Therapeutics Inc., during the Forbes Healthcare Summit in New York, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Sarepta Therapeutics plunged more than 30% on Friday as the future of its approved gene therapy treatment appeared at risk. The […]
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Wegovy injection pens arranged in Waterbury, Vermont, US, on Monday, April 28, 2025. Shelby Knowles | Bloomberg | Getty Images For well over a decade, Grace Hamilton, 27, experienced hair loss, heavy periods, infrequent menstrual cycles, mental health issues and difficulty losing weight without knowing why. It wasn’t until 2021 when she was diagnosed with
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Welcome gentle readers to another installment of the Sunday Morning Movie. Today we have a Phillip Marlowe story for you: Farewell My Lovely. It stars Robert Mitchum and Charlotte Rampling. Reviews: RogerEbert.com says: It is, indeed, the most evocative of all the private detective movies we have had in the last few years. It is
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Top synchro execution in action! Gabriela Agundez and Alejandra Estudillo deliver height, precision, and perfect timing 🙌🇲🇽#Bestdives pic.twitter.com/P1Kxc04dvh — World Aquatics (@WorldAquatics) May 18, 2025 The breakthrough proof bringing mathematics closer to a grand unified theory Nature 20-Million-Year-Old Rhino Fossil Rewrites Evolutionary History SciTech Daily An electric scooter that accelerates faster than a Tesla Model
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Conor here: A useful reminder. Although I’m unsure how much has to do with Western values and culture Neuberger cites as opposed to how a system that rewards sociopaths will ultimately warp culture and values. Nowadays there are certainly non-Western societies that are just as rapacious as those in the West. There are also still
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Pollinators send out good vibrations — and plants respond sweetly Science News (Dr. Kevin) Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? BBC (Robin K). Lordie. I heard decades ago from the professional sports mafia that this issue had been largely settled. A high quality study had participants eat only one meal, the
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Yves here. Get a cup of coffee. This is an important piece by Hudson, giving another important historical long view, here on the use of trade as a tool of colonial exploitation. However, I feel compelled to put on my stickler hat and offer some quibbles. First is the use of the term “free trade”.
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Yves here. This post, while it offers many important observations from the frontlines of the efforts to protect endangered species, oddly skips over the big issue of habitat loss due to seemingly unending demands by humans for more calories or income, as in more farmland or more hunting (or more poaching so as to sell
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Part the First: Pharmacopeia. Who doesn’t love a garden? It sometimes seems that all drugs come from plants, initially. My first biology teachers claimed they were taught that bacteria were plants back when life was either animal or plant. Garden of Healing is a bit long but very interesting. It is also a break from
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