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ignigenaquintus t1_j87w52i wrote

Reply to comment by Neurotic_Bakeder in Training does not improve clinical psychology students’ mentalization abilities, study finds by lolfuys

If empathy is the key here, then we have a problem. We know due the literature of in-group bias that both men and women have more empathy for women, and the number of male psychologists have been reduced from 38% to 28% in the last decade, with male psychologists under 30 being only 5% of psychologists under 30.

We also know that there are between 15-20+ liberals per non liberal working in psychology, and that ideas like privilege and systemic discrimination reduce the empathy toward men.

Seems to me this could easily translate in a situation where the people that are going to need more help in the following decades are the ones that may be receiving less empathy and therefore less effective help.

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chris_rael t1_j87pvrl wrote

Reply to Metformin regulates myoblast differentiation through an AMPK-dependent mechanism (Feb 2023) by basmwklz

ChatGPT ELIF: This study looked at how a drug called metformin affects muscle tissue. They looked at how the drug affects cells that help form muscle tissue, and they also looked at the role of a protein called AMPK in how the drug works. The researchers tested different amounts of the drug on these muscle cells and checked to see if it was having an effect on their growth and development. They also checked to see if the drug was toxic to the cells. They found that the drug was preventing the cells from developing into muscle tissue and that this was because of the AMPK protein. In other words, the drug was blocking the muscle cells from developing properly, and the AMPK protein was involved in this process.

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8496469 t1_j87pfy3 wrote

Reply to comment by basmwklz in Metformin regulates myoblast differentiation through an AMPK-dependent mechanism (Feb 2023) by basmwklz

C2C12 is an immortalized mouse myoblast cell line. The C2C12 cell line is a subclone of myoblasts that were originally obtained by Yaffe and Saxel at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel in 1977.[1] Developed for in vitro studies of myoblasts isolated from the complex interactions of in vivo conditions, C2C12 cells are useful in biomedical research.[2] These cells are capable of rapid proliferation under high serum conditions and differentiation into myotubes under low serum conditions. Mononucleated myoblasts can later fuse to form multinucleated myotubes under low serum conditions or starvation, leading to the precursors of contractile skeletal muscle cells in the process of myogenesis.[3] C2C12 cells are used to study the differentiation of myoblasts, osteoblasts, and myogenesis, to express various target proteins, and to explore mechanistic biochemical pathways.

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Fixing_The_World t1_j87p6oj wrote

Reply to comment by Malalang in A new study has explored changes to the gut microbiome in people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). The study identified that people who were diagnosed with the condition less than four years previously have altered proportions of certain microbiota species. by rjmsci

An amazingly large portion of cancer, autoimmunity (diabetes 1, arthritis, MS, ect), and neurodegenerative diseases are linked to viruses.

Some of this is also linked to bacteria as well. However, it actually seems viruses may be the worse of the two.

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