Well this is interesting

Andy Warhol’s family was Ruthenian.

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Tooting Popular Front?
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No, the Popular Front of Tooting. Splitter!

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Yeah, but that’s not the reason it caught fire.

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Yep, but Oh! The irony!

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Careful with that ash, Eugene!

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I just received the latest issue of Scientific American. They had a short article on IBD:

FTA:

For example, one of the most recently approved drugs, risankizumab (marketed as Skyrizi), blocks receptors for the cytokine interleukin-23 (IL-23), which is involved in many autoimmune diseases, and thereby interrupts the inflammatory cascade.

I just started Skyrizi three weeks ago, with the first of 3 infusions. Next week, I get the second infusion. On April Fools’ Day. And this was the April issue of SciAm.

Not sure what this portends.

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Sometimes a dirigible can just be a cigar.

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So it’s a monoclonal antibody; they and the mRNA drugs seems to be taking over the world! In a good way.

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I hope it works.

And how is “Sky-rizi” pronounced?

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I believe it’s pronounced sky reezee. One of the odder drug brand names I’ve encountered.

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Sounds like a video game.

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You bet. And “risankizumab” sounds too Seussian to be internally taken—unless it was a children’s vitamin.

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I agree with the identification theory, but it could possibly be some kind of currency.

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Ammonite trace fossils.

(I did not watch the video)

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Thanks!

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There’s a cat arthritis medication called “bedinvetmab”, and I always want to transpose syllables so that it’s “vetinbedmab”.

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I love Stefan’s videos, and I’m saving this one to watch tomorrow.

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