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The product was made by putting whole blood through a centrifuge to separate out red blood cells, platelets and proteins known as clotting factors.
What remains is blood serum, a yellowish fluid containing additional proteins, such as albumin and other beneficial constituents. When the clotting factors are not removed, the result is blood plasma.
Both serum and plasma can be freeze-dried – or lyophilized – to remove its water content. This enables long-term storage and easy transportation.
“What you’re left with is a powder,” said Dr. Singh. “Essentially, it’s like whey protein.”
SMH: ‘Junk science’ is being used in courtrooms across Australia. We should all be worried
The handling of expert opinion evidence by Australian courts is in a crisis. Curiously, our courts appear oblivious. They use forensic science evidence without regard for the best scientific advice.
Australian courts ignore criteria recommended by peak scientific organisations such as the United States National Academy of Sciences and the Australian Academy of Science. The chief executive of the AAS, Anna-Maria Arabia, has warned that our courts are susceptible to “junk science”. Why is this happening, and what can we do?
The conviction of Robert Farquharson for the murder of his three sons on Father’s Day 2005 is being questioned in the media, with doubts raised about the reliability of prosecution’s medical, traffic reconstruction and sinking vehicle evidence.
This case has echoes of Henry Keogh, David Eastman and Lindy Chamberlain. Their murder convictions were overturned when scientific and medical testimony from their trials was eventually found to be unreliable.
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In 2009, the US National Academy of Sciences concluded that apart from DNA, no forensic method has been rigorously shown to consistently, and with a high degree of certainty, demonstrate a connection between evidence and a specific individual or source.
The academy expressed concerns about the accuracy of expert comparisons of fingerprints, ballistics, hairs, handwriting, bite marks, explosives, paints and blood stains.
9to5Mac: Apple refused to pay bounty to Kaspersky for uncovering vulnerability in ‘Operation Triangulation’
Kaspersky, the renowned Russian cybersecurity firm, made headlines at this time last year after uncovering an attack chain using four iOS zero-day vulnerabilities to create a zero-click exploit. Kaspersky was able to identify and report one of the vulnerabilities to Apple. However, in a bizarre update, Apple reportedly refuses to pay the security bounty for the firm’s contribution.
Globe: French President Emmanuel Macron calls snap legislative election after defeat in EU vote
French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday he was dissolving the National Assembly and calling a snap legislative election after his party suffered a heavy defeat in elections for the European Parliament.
In an address to the nation from the Elysee presidential palace, Macron said: “I’ve decided to give you back the choice of our parliamentary future through the vote. I am therefore dissolving the National Assembly.” The vote will take place in two rounds on June 30 and July 7, he said.
The Athletic: Inside Natalie Darwitz’s ousting from PWHL Minnesota: Rift with the coach, players taking sides
The celebration was barely a week old, however, when the league decided to make a major and unexpected change at the top.
According to multiple team and league sources, on Tuesday the PWHL — which owns all six teams — informed Darwitz that she would no longer be the GM of the franchise.
On Thursday morning, during a meeting with league officials, Darwitz was offered multiple options, per the sources: Take a position in the PWHL hockey operations department, issue a joint statement in which she would announce she had achieved everything she wanted in the first year of the franchise and was moving on to a new challenge or sit at Minnesota’s table for Monday’s PWHL draft but with no authority.
24/7 Wall St.: Price Prediction: NVIDIA Will Hit $150 By the End of Summer After Its Stock Split
09.Jun.2024 $NVDA
On the other hand, NVIDIA just posted a quarter where revenue grew 262% and profits grew 628%. That’s an even more stunning development than a company its size adding a trillion in value in a month. I went through some earnings of other large tech and growth companies to find their highest sales growth across the past decade and nothing comes even close to what NVIDIA is currently experiencing: …
Just Havre a Think (YouTube): High voltage electrons from Morocco to the UK. The blueprint for a global ‘internet of energy’?
Electrifying everything with renewable technologies like solar PV, wind turbines and battery energy storage is a ‘holy grail’ that energy transition naysayers tell us is an impossible dream. In 2021, an ambitious UK start-up called Xlinks set out to prove that theory wrong, embarking upon a multi-billion dollar project to install 16.5GW of solar, wind and battery capacity in Morocco that will provide enough energy to run 7 million British homes for more than 20 hours a day, all year round, via four 4,000km subsea HVDC cables. In 2024 they received the seal of approval and a multi-million pound cash injection from Britain’s largest electricity provider. We talk directly to the Chief Executives of both companies.
Eric Topol: Tom Cech: RNA Takes Center Stage
Well, hello, this is Eric Topol from Ground Truths, and it’s really a delight for me to welcome Tom Cech who just wrote a book, the Catalyst, and who is a Nobel laureate for his work in RNA. And is at the University of Colorado Boulder as an extraordinary chemist and welcome Tom.
Last Updated: 09.Jun.2024 16:19 EDT
