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  • It depends on the force being applied and how still the fluid is still, but it's certainly plausible. Think of oobleck (cornstarch and water). Hitting with enough speed and force, the surface will act like a solid

  • can you smoke bacteria out of meat boiling it?
  • Boiled meat tastes bad because you're not adding oil/butter. You're also not applying enough direct heat (plus keeping it too moist) to create the maillard reaction that is needed for a crust to form

  • can you smoke bacteria out of meat boiling it?
  • The water doesn't make a difference. What's killing the bacteria is the heat. The water just changes the method of heat transfer. But as others have already said, killing the bacteria may not necessarily make it safe

  • Many such cases
  • Zelle actually got rid of its app and is now incorporated directly in the banking apps themselves. It's kind of like a browser extension where it has its own section in the banking app

  • Engineers vs Physicists
  • The funny thing is, the very first thing engineers learn in almost any class is significant figures and to make sure an answer makes sense in a real life scenario. Obviously not everyone is the same in terms of how they apply things, but engineers are definitely taught not to do stuff like that

  • sure you can have latkes :)
  • Most movie theaters are open Christmas Day in the US as well, not just boxing day. I've been to quite a few movies on the 25th. Tons of major films are released Christmas Day because it's such a high grossing day in the industry

  • Every App is a dating app
  • Imagine if this meme said "Being rich is easy, if your Jewish enough " with a picture of a guy in a yamuka. How is that not playing into the stereotype? The whole point of the joke is that this is a stereotype of the culture

  • Every App is a dating app
  • Huh, I never expected such a blatantly racist meme to get so many upvotes on an overtly far-left platform like lemmy

    Edit: updating because my tired ass brain confused left and right

  • Chinese scientists develop cure for diabetes, insulin patient becomes medicine-free in just 3 months
  • The pancreas is not really stable enough to be implanted in at all. Other organs you're imagining like liver, stomach, heart, etc. have a solid lining that can be cut open and stitched back together. The pancreas is more like a cluster of loose cells with veins throughout and held together by a very thin, tissue paper lining. If you try to open it and insert cells, you're not going to be able to put it back together.

    That's why cells are usually put in the liver, which has a large vein going directly to the pancreas. Close proximity and high blood supply. Implanting in the pancreas will likely never be an option unless you can drastically reduce the volume of cells.

    Our lab was working on implanting the stem cells on a porous scaffold in the fat pad of the stomach as an alternative

  • Chinese scientists develop cure for diabetes, insulin patient becomes medicine-free in just 3 months
  • Unfortunately, that doesn't necessarily negate the requirement for immunosuppresors or some other kind of immuno protection. If it is Type 1 diabetes, the person originally became diabetic because the immune system saw certain markers on the beta cells (insulin producing cells) as a threat. So, if you recreate the beta cells, there is still a possibility that it will happen again. You are fighting your own immune system. Someone in our lab was studying encapsulation of cells to create a protective barrier around them for this very issue

    If the person was Type 2, this might be less of a risk since type 2 can also be due to high insulin resistivity. There are a lot of other factors involved, though, it's not straightforward

  • Chinese scientists develop cure for diabetes, insulin patient becomes medicine-free in just 3 months
  • I literally worked in a research lab working on islet cell therapies for diabetes in the US. This has actually been done many times before with cells from cadavers. It has been successful, although most the of the time the person reverts back after a few years

    The issues we were trying to solve in the lab were

    1. Finding a good place to transplant where the cells will last: Implanting in the hepatic region (liver), which is the most common place to implant, is toxic to the cells over time hence only lasting 3-5 years. The cells need a really good blood supply and the volume you're transplanting can't be easily transplanted in the pancreas or kidney capsules (where many successful studies were performed in mice and rats)

    2. Being able to consistently make a high volume of stem cells that are fully grown into insulin producing cells: Cadaver cells usually require 3-5 donors for 1 person and require the receiver to be on lifelong immunosuppresors due to the immune response. Depending on the kind of stem cells, the patient may still even need immunosuppresors due to the cell type you're converting from

    All this the say - the article says nothing about where the cells where transplanted, where they came from, or whether the person has Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. Although it is still a feat, it is likely not the first time it has been done, and we're still a long ways off from a cure

  • Man who received first pig kidney transplant dies
  • Dr. Death was about gross negligence in medicine and the failure of the medical system to prevent unqualified doctors from making it through the system. There's no evidence that this study has anything to do with that

  • Chile circa 2003 knew exactly what the Star Wars universe was missing

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    Female Fashion Advice @lemmy.world Soulfulginger @lemmy.world

    Best online shops for European fashion in America?

    I know very little about fashion and I'm not even a huge fan of shopping, but I'm going insane looking at the same clothes every day in my closet. I would really like to revamp my style. I think I tend to enjoy more classy feminine styles that are still a little sexy. Seems to fit in more with European styles, but I can't find many shops that have that in the US. Does anyone have any recommendations?

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