#Brittle Bones

[stopbuggingm3]

"...checkmate."

and of course the typical alternate under the cut because I get way too attached to the way lineart looks on its own

most of their fights turn out like this, though usually the weapons end up kicked away in favour of violently clawing at each other

[bpod-bpod]

Fishbones and Fractures

One bad fall and crack go your bones. But if you have an inherited Fragile Bone Disorder (FBD), even the smallest knock can cause a fracture. Checking whether certain genetic flaws are responsible for FBDs and the impact they have isn’t straightforward in humans due to our genetic diversity and ethical considerations. Researchers have, therefore, made it easier using zebrafish and a technique called crispant screening. They focused on genes previously identified in humans as associated with an FBD. Using a gene-editing technology called CRISPR/Cas9, they created zebrafish lacking these genes. Next, they used microscopy to analyse the skeletons of these mutant fish at different ages after staining their bones (pictured) or fluorescently tagging their bone cells. All mutant fish (middle, bottom) had deformed bones when compared with normal fish (top), with many showing fractures and fused bones. This shows the power of crispant screening in zebrafish to clarify which genes are responsible for FBDs.

Written by Lux Fatimathas

Image from work by Sophie Debaenst and colleagues

Center for Medical Genetics Ghent, Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Image contributed by the authors under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence

Published in eLife (reviewed preprint), January 2025

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[annasellheim]

Next part- learning to cope

[trans-marvin]

Fuck yea/s prolly just broke my foot

[samtheviking]

PPI users (Prilosec, Pepsid, other daily heartburn medicine), take note:

They've already reported that long-term use can cause brittle bones and early death. Now they've found it also can cause dementia. They need to pull these off the market, or at very least put them back on prescription-only.

[jacarooster813]

Hospital Privacy Violation: My Shocking Experience PART 3

ISAIAH 5:7 HOW BEAUTIFUL ON THE MOUNTAINS ARE THE FEET OF THOSE WHO BRING GOOD NEWS, WHO PROCLAIM PEACE, WHO BRIMG GOOD TIDINGS, WHO PROCLAIM SALVATION, WHO SAY TO ZION, “YOUR GOD REIGNS!” Hi all can you believe I am back again! 😱 I am on a roll in 2025 BABY! LOL. We shall see how long I can keep this momentum up though LOL. “If you have been keeping up with my last few vlogs and articles,…

[thefairynerdy]

Happy Wishbone Day!

[sout999]

i never understood transphobes epic gotcha argument that "when archeologists dig up your bones they will sex you as xyz" or even the rebuttal of "idc what archeologists sex my bones as, what matters is how i lived" (which is valid too)

because to me the obvious answer is "why do you assume archeologists and scientists in the far future are all going to be cis transphobes and the culture will still be geared to ignore queerness" and "it is precisely up to historical science to figure out how you lived, failing that it would be shit science"

so dont be sad. go kiss your queer STEM friends and tell them you're here for them if they need practise excavating your body and studying your bones

[benthic-girl]

There's a long scene of Gilgamesh just asking enkidu about how different people are doing in the afterlife, I take it as like moral lessons on how people live their lives but god these two together are so fucking funny "they cannot mend his bones"

[ballcrusher74]

mr sys model i quickly made tonight just to play toys . if any1 gaf

[rysttle]

so sorry to everyone watching me jump interests every 3.42 days thanks for staying, have a brittle bones nicky for today

[rupige]

Friends, foes, what can I say? He's back for more, couldn't stay away

[annasellheim]

Next part- MRI shenanigans

[reinarandraw]

Silly doodle for today featuring a tired Neve

Tbf to her, it's the fifth time Markos runs to her and demands her to heal Emmrich so our girl is tired of his antics

[starry-bi-sky]

"Odysseus and his crew could've just fished!"

"lmao Athena is yelling at Odysseus for not fishing instead"

"why didn't they just fish? they're on the ocean!"

Me, tiredly: no.... no they could not have 'just fished', you don't know what you're talking about. please... please just sit down. Athena would've "my goodbye"'d his ass on the spot for suggesting to fish instead

[jacarooster813]

Gods grace through my hospital nightmare 🙏

PROVERBS 14:29 A PATIENT PERSON SHOWS GREAT UNDERSTANDING, BUT A QUICK-TEMPERED ONE PROMOTES FOOLISHNESS. Hi everyone. I know, I am back so soon with another article, shocking right? 😱LOL. The truth is it shouldn’t be that much of a surprise because if you watched the vlog that went with my last article then you would have heard me say; I was coming back with a part 2, so here I am, I kept my…