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Virginia officials find misreported 2020 election votes added to Trump’s total | Virginia
As Donald Trump continues to pursue the lie that his 2020 presidential election defeat was the result of electoral fraud, elections officials in Virginia have admitted some results there were improperly reported – resulting in an artificially inflated total for Trump while votes were actually taken away from Joe Biden. Eric Olsen, director of elections…
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Reductive carboxylation of glutamine as a potential target in acute myeloid leukemia
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new editorial paper was published in Oncotarget titled, “Reductive carboxylation of glutamine as a potential target in acute myeloid leukemia.” In this new editorial, researchers Alessia Roma, Lawrence D. Goodridge, and Paul A. Spagnuolo from the… Continue Reading News Source: medicalxpress.com
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Study shows a single session of aerobic exercise improves blood pressure in rheumatoid arthritis patients
1: Summary of the experimental sessions. The exercise (upper panel) and control sessions (lower panel) were performed in different days and the order of the experiments was randomized. Both sessions were composed by pre- and post-interventions of blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) at rest and in response to the Stroop Color and Word…
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Evolutionary conservation of CD4 and LAG-3 and their cytoplasmic tail motifs with opposing immune functions
Conservation of their respective cytoplasmic tail motifs, CxC/H in the case of CD4 and an ITIM-like motif in the case of LAG-3, supports that competition between CD4 and LAG-3 for binding of kinase LCK is a conserved core part of the jawed vertebrate immune system. Credit: The figure was created by Johannes M. Dijkstra. The…
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Top London school taken to high court over prayer ban | London
One of England’s highest performing state schools, famed for its top results, strict discipline code and charismatic headteacher, has been challenged in the high court for its policy of banning prayer rituals on school premises. The case against Michaela community school in Brent, north-west London, has been brought by one of its Muslim pupils, who…
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Palestinian used as human shield during Israeli raid on West Bank town: Report
Palestinian Baha Abu Ras, who was used as a human shield by Israeli troops during a raid, shows a video of the incident on his mobile phone, in the town of Dura near the city of al-Khalil (Hebron) in the southern part of the occupied West Bank on January 15, 2024. (Photo by Reuters) …
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Planet with tail discovered 160 light-years away
Astronomers have discovered over 5,500 worlds out there in the great unknown. And yet, they continue to baffle and surprise us. The latest surprise comes in the form of exoplanet WASP-69B, a planet with a 350,000-mile-long comet-like tail flowing behind it. Slightly larger than Jupiter, WASP-69b is what astronomers often refer to as a hot…
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Study discovers 103 genes that cause inherited diseases when mutated can also increase cancer risk
Systematic analysis of the enrichment of rare pathogenic variants in cases compared to control samples. a Proposed hypothesis that rare pathogenic variants in Mendelian disease-associated genes (OMIM genes) increase the risk of cancer. b Overview of the case–control analysis. Principal components analysis (PCA) using common variants was performed to stratify the population of cases (cancer…
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Pakistan says Iran violated airspace, killing two children – Reuters.com
Pakistan says Iran violated airspace, killing two children Reuters.com Continue Reading News Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-launches-missiles-baluchi-militant-group-pakistan-state-media-2024-01-16/
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Canada clamps down on researchers with ties to China, Iran, Russia – Reuters
Canada clamps down on researchers with ties to China, Iran, Russia Reuters Continue Reading News Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/canada-clamps-down-researchers-with-ties-china-iran-russia-2024-01-16/
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