That was not what they were working on, it was very much therapy. But preliminary work was very, very encouraging. Now all gone.
RNA neoantigen vaccines prime long-lived CD8+ T cells in pancreatic cancer | Nature
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Yes to both! And heartfelt support to you and your family.
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That’s awful. I’m so sorry for her. I’m also sorry for you, your DIL and her brother, and all of her family and friends.
Yep. Ending a promising treatment trial is criminal. Fuck Dump and his administration of asshats. 
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Fuck. I’m so sorry.
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Thank you all so much for the support; it means the world to us.
@KathyPartdeux , I’m so sorry to hear that you’ve had to go through this ordeal, and not just once.
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Crossposted to the Fall of Roe v Wade topic:
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I just had a “political cartoons this week” in my newsfeed, but when I went to it, it was all the MAGAt cartoonists, and they were all about how Iran was going to nuke Israel and the U.S. if we didn’t team up immediately. That’s definitely the ‘news’ that MAGAts are seeing, no doubt about it.
I didn’t want to pollute the stream here, but maybe I should have posted a link, with a warning?
Something weird happened to my main newsfeed today, with that being only one example.
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Oh no, the US is about to be nuked again?
This was stupid the first time, and now it’s so stupid that even Carlson and Greene can figure it out. 
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That’s horrifying!
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One victim, a thirty-eight-year-old mother named Shannon Hanchett, ran a beloved bakery in Norman, Oklahoma, where locals called her the Cookie Queen. A lawsuit alleged that she died after being locked in a processing cell where she lacked sufficient water and hardly ate for eleven days. She’d been arrested during a mental-health episode at a cellphone store. According to medical records I reviewed, she’d lost thirty pounds while in jail.
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At one point, Smolen said, no one opened the door to Hanchett’s cell for five days straight. She was rarely given water and discarded much of her food. Finally, jail staff found her naked and unresponsive on the floor. Smolen told me that he watched as jail and medical staff mocked Hanchett, laughed at her, and dragged her from one place to another, semiconscious, to determine what to do about her condition. They left her in a medical cell with a cup of Gatorade, which she was unable to drink. According to a nurse’s records I reviewed, Hanchett stated, “They are going to kill me.” The next day, she was found dead. According to the Oklahoman, a state medical examiner ruled her cause of death as “natural,” likely caused by a heart defect with dehydration as a contributing factor.
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ETA and this morning just gets better
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I clicked on the Mr. Blue Sky link and then on the NY Times link and then hit a paywall, so…
Maybe not as big a deal as the headline says:
Dr. Winstock cautioned that some of the reports in France may have resulted from panic as news reports of the stabbings spread. “Until there is toxicological evidence, what the story might be is that a group of people pick up on something they heard had happened to someone else,” he said. “Because you feel a sharp prick does not mean you have been injected with a drug.”
Needle spiking is “not the biggest threat out there,” he said, noting that a far bigger threat on nights out was people being taken advantage of when drunk or on drugs.
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Some well-dressed asshole is always rubbing up to you at a bar.
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It’s not just drugs that I’d be worried about.
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You can usually smell that kind before you feel them.
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I remember passing a young man once, and I turned a gave a good sniff, because he smelled like ivory soap.
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is that a good thing, or bad?
at least Ivory soap is not heavily perfumed.
at least it wasn’t Axe body spray, yeah?
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