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☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>“lab-grown human neurons” 🧠</p><p>How?</p><p>“The neurons are made in the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/lab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lab</span></a> in a process which turns <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BloodCells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BloodCells</span></a> back into stem cells — cells that can develop into many different types of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/cells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cells</span></a> — which are then turned into <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/neurons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neurons</span></a>. …[They're] grown from induced <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/StemCells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StemCells</span></a> that are generated from a small amount of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/blood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blood</span></a> from volunteers,"</p>
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬<p>We’ve finally found out what makes <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/urine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>urine</span></a> yellow it comes from <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a> metabolizing waste from <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/redbloodcells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>redbloodcells</span></a><br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Bilirubin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bilirubin</span></a> is orange pigment released by red <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/bloodcells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bloodcells</span></a> after they die. Gut microbes use bilirubin reductase to break down bilirubin into colorless urobilinogen, which degrades into yellowish <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/urobilin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>urobilin</span></a>, giving urine that infamous hue. While urobilin previously had an association with color of urine, enzyme that starts process producing urobilinogen was unknown.<br><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/gotta-go-weve-finally-found-out-what-makes-urine-yellow/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/science/2024/0</span><span class="invisible">1/gotta-go-weve-finally-found-out-what-makes-urine-yellow/</span></a></p>
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