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For decades, scientists have puzzled over how metformin, the world’s most prescribed diabetes drug, works beyond lowering blood sugar. Now, a study from Kobe University reports that metformin users have lower blood copper and iron levels and higher zinc levels compared with non-users. The findings, published in BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care, suggest that the drug’s ability to bind …

Bungie has walked back its Destiny 2 Portal nerfs after community backlash, calling the approach “too conservative,” and outlined some reward buffs coming with the Ash & Iron update. Bungie has pulled a hard U-turn on last week’s controversial Portal tuning. After announcing nerfs to Solo Ops power gains and Exotic mission rewards, the studio says its approach was “too …

Phylogenetic framework and HMMs of sulfur-cycling proteins To discern sulfur-cycling genes or proteins from their functionally divergent homologues, phylogenetic analysis was conducted for 116 sulfur-cycling proteins (Supplementary Table 1). For each protein family, sequences of enzymes with biochemically validated functions, including related sequences of enzymes with divergent functions (outgroups), were identified by literature surveys and recovered from SwissProt61. Additional homologues …

Press enter or click to view image in full size Logarithm of the nickel mass loss rate from 3I/ATLAS (vertical axis) as a function of heliocentric distance (horizontal axis). Blue circles show Very Large Telescope/X-shooter measurements of 3I/ATLAS and the black solid curve is a power–law fit to the data with a power-law index of −8.43±0.79. Colored symbols compare with …

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With so many different chores to keep up with, it can be easy to forget about washing all your odd socks. But scientists say that falling behind on the laundry could lead to more than just smelly feet. Dr Primrose Freestone, a microbiologist from the University of Leicester, warns that your feet are a ‘miniature rainforest of bacteria and fungi’. …

Making Good Time EP: 01 I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For02 Luther03 I Want to Know What Love Is04 More Than This05 Ketchum, ID Iron & Wine: 09-06 Evanston, IL – Evanston Folk Festival09-12 Louisville, KY – Bourbon & Beyond09-18 Seattle, WA - Marymoor Park #09-19 Eugene, WA – The Cuthbert Amphitheater #09-20 Portland, OR – McMenamins Grand Lodge …

The original lead singer of a legendary heavy metal band is dead at age 69. Paul Mario Day, who was part of the new wave of British heavy metal in the 1980s with Iron Maiden and More, died at his home in Australia Tuesday. A cause of death was not immediately announced. “We are deeply saddened to learn of the …

British rocker Paul Mario Day, best known as the original vocalist of Iron Maiden, has died at age 69. The heavy metal musician died peacefully at his home in Australia Tuesday, his family revealed. While an official cause of death is unknown at this time, the rocker had been battling cancer in recent years, Parade reports. British rocker Paul Mario …

Paul Mario Day, original lead singer of Iron Maiden and singer of the new wave of British heavy metal band More, has died at the age of 69. “We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of the great More vocalist Paul Mario Day,” More wrote in a Facebook statement, which you can see below. “Paul was a huge part of …