Ronald M. Chavin

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Ronald M. Chavin

Ronald M. Chavin

@rmchavin

bassoon player, chess player, fish eater, onion eater, soy yogurt eater, mustard seed eater, green tea & cocoa drinker, sugar & salt avoider, Neu5Gc avoider

Honolulu, HI เข้าร่วม Temmuz 2015
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Teslas leave their doors open to prevent trapping their drivers, right? No! They're bringing back their Model S and their Model X, which will be sold at very high prices. Didn't Tesla promise buyers that they wouldn't flood the market by making any more? eletric-vehicles.com/tesla/tesla-le…
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So many air disasters have been caused by unrepaired equipment on the plane, at air traffic control towers, or at training simulators. The German air traffic controller should have been trained to tell these pilots to obey your TCAS youtube.com/watch?v=UB3Vi5… #Current_implementation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_c…
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The over-the-air upgrade boosts the peak motor power of Nio's Firefly BEV from 141 hp to 161 hp. The zero-to-100 km/h acceleration time to is now 7.9 seconds. The starting price for a new, refreshed Firefly BEV is set at $17,623. Shares of Nio are tanking: cnevpost.com/2026/05/23/nio…
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Toyota's PHEVs are very different from European and Chinese PHEVs. People who buy European PHEVs or Chinese PHEVs are using their vehicles mostly only as gasoline-powered vehicles. People who buy Toyota's PHEVs are using their vehicles mostly only as EVs: insideevs.com/news/796691/ph…
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There's more news every day that the IRGC is loosening their blockade of the Strait of Hormuz: iranintl.com/en/202605245602 As a result, fossil fuel prices are falling, which is good news for drivers of gasoline-powered, diesel-powered, and aviation fuel-powered vehicles and aircraft:
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Favipiravir has zero efficacy against DNA viruses (smallpox, adenovirus, herpes, human papilloma, monkeypox, hepatitis B) and retroviruses (HIV). But it has at least some efficacy against virtually all RNA viruses, including the flu, COVID, measles, dengue x.com/sarahdespres/s…
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Sarah Despres@sarahdespres

This raises a lot of questions. favipiravir isn’t approved in the US so they will need an EUA from FDA. And hanta is exceedingly rare and hard to transmit. It’s not measles. Or smallpox. What is the potential public health threat here?

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The drug was recently approved in Japan as a post-exposure protection measure against COVID-19. It’s currently under consideration for approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the same use in the United States, with a decision expected in June smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/thi…
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*Bran is nutritious but makes whole wheat bread less delicious *Our cellulase-producing Bacillus subtilis enhances the quality of whole wheat bread *Converts insoluble fiber into soluble fiber plus arabinoxylan, which protects lactobacilli & bifidobacteria pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42176474/
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*By optimizing levansucrase expression in Bacillus subtilis, we enhanced lactosucrose production *We screened 6 different levansucrases *Our best engineered strain produced lactosucrose with a 46.5% conversion rate from 200 g/L lactose and 300 g/L sucrose pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42176820/
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Zhōngguó: *We included 7 studies in our meta-analysis *Treatment of moderate to severe, corticosteroid-resistant, active Graves' orbitopathy patients with Actemra (tocilizumab) resulted in improvements in clinical activity score, proptosis, and diplopia link.springer.com/article/10.118…
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Medellín, Colombia: *Our 33-year old lady has primary Sjögren's, anasarca, persistent fever, severe thrombocytopenia, & acute kidney injury due to thrombotic microangiopathy & tubulointerstitial nephritis *Corticosteroids failed *Renal replacement therapy link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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İstanbul, Türkiye: *Our 16-year old was misdiagnosed with FMF and IgA vasculitis *At age 9, a periodic fever gene panel revealed a homozygous MVK p.V377I mutation, confirming MKD *After anakinra, canakinumab, and sulfasalazine failed, subcutaneous Actemra pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42172471/
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