Day 3578: Direction.

 

 

"Direction": junk mail collage.

 

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2GN2S ...

March of the penguins

 

 

Yellow-eyed penguins may be cute, but don't let that fool you! According to the staff at Penguin Place in the Otago Peninsula, New Zealand, they can be a little, well, aggressive. Locals call them hoiho, which means "noise shouter" in Māori.

 

But that doesn't stop New Zealanders from trying to take care of them however they can. Yellow-eyed penguins are one of the most endangered penguin species in the world, with an estimated 3,000 adults left in the wild. Organizations like Penguin Place, a wildlife rehabilitation center, help combat the effects of pollution and starvation on these precious birds. 

 After some mending and fattening up, injured or ill penguins there are added to a breeding program, where more generations of screaming, antisocial little hoiho can begin.

 

2GN2S #2  ...

A bright idea?

 

Molecular biologist David Sinclair and his team at Harvard Medical School have made sci-fi dreams come true: They have apparently found a way to reverse aging in mice using proteins that can turn an adult cell into a stem cell.  Their first breakthrough came in 2020 when they treated old mice with poor vision.  

  

Miraculously, the mice regained their good eyesight. If it all seems a little too dystopian once you start considering human applications, that's understandable. But Sinclair is focusing on what, exactly, can be improved if we can turn back our own clocks. Diseases like cancer and dementia are often brought on by the aging process itself, so de-aging, as it were, could be a key to preventing them. "I believe that in the future, delaying and reversing aging will be the best way to treat the diseases that plague most of us,” Sinclair says. 

 

 

 

 

A cute 4+minute video, Bunny & Retriever, here.

 

Just because ...

 

 

Ping Grosbeak

 

 

Smiles for Monday ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

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