This week in What were they thinking #263Yeast v yeast, Orcas, ubuiqitin, spelling & GMO pig kidne..

This weeks news is a combination of news and the obvious.

The obvious is that America is sad. Something anyone can tell you.

In newsworthy items we have GMOs. GMO pigs for kidney transplants. GMO cows for insulin filled milk.

This weeks news items can be found at the following time stamps:

00:00 Intro
02:05 Ubuiquitin for autoimmune diseases
05:13 How sperm lock other sperm out of ovum
07:44 T cell antibody brain cancer therapy
11:10 Preliminary RSV vaccine results
12:52 COVID19 vaccine drastically cut rates of clots, myocarditis and more
15:46 COVID19 lowers IQ and more
17:09 Insulin from cows milk?
19:30 GMO pig kidney transplanted
21:49 Wild yeast stops pathogenic yeast infection
23:25 Tape worm in Florida man’s brain
24:48 Polio survivor dies after 70 years in iron lung
26:09 Screen time and erectile dysfunction
28:20 US happiness score plummets
29:49 Orcas using new hunting methods
31:47 Able prize for maths winner
33:21 Scourge of badly spelled cell line names in academia
36:27 See a supernova for yourself

Relevant links:

The CRL5 SPSB3 ubiquitin ligase targets nuclear cGAS for degradation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07112-w

ZP2 cleavage blocks polyspermy by modulating the architecture of the egg coat
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00179-X?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS009286742400179X%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Intraventricular CARv3 TEAM E T Cells in Recurrent Glioblastoma
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2314390

Some Good, But Preliminary Real World Data on Those Baby RSV Shots
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/some-good-but-preliminary-real-world-data-on-those-baby-rsv-shots/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=some-good-but-preliminary-real-world-data-on-those-baby-rsv-shots

Vaccines cut risk of post COVID heart failure, blood clots for at least 6 months, data suggest
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/vaccines-cut-risk-post-covid-heart-failure-blood-c..