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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social

WOAH: "Research led by a Swansea University academic has revealed a synthetic glycosystem - a sugar-coated polymer nanoparticle - that can block Covid-19 from infecting human cells, reducing infection rates by nearly 99%." www.news-medical.net/news/2025081... (via @covid19disease.bsky.social)

aug 14, 2025, 4:22 pm • 161 60

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Aud Auder @cbauder.bsky.social

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aug 14, 2025, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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Keith from NE @wfutbolfan.bsky.social

Amazing! But of course, here in the US this is prob too risky for the CDC to invest in. And it has sugar in it, which is unhealthy. And probably aluminum 🙄

aug 14, 2025, 4:39 pm • 1 0 • view
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Matthew Vaughn @mattyvonzo.bsky.social

Wow! "Tests on human lung cells showed a 98.6% reduction in infection when the molecule was present. Crucially, the research highlighted that its effectiveness stems not just from its charge, but from its precise sugar structure - giving this glycosystem its powerful infection-blocking capability."

aug 14, 2025, 4:35 pm • 6 0 • view
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Katya King @katyavdgk.bsky.social

📌 thanks

aug 14, 2025, 4:33 pm • 1 0 • view
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Sarah @sarahhopkins.bsky.social

📍Thanks. Amazing news.

aug 14, 2025, 5:11 pm • 4 0 • view
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kindnessmatters3.bsky.social @kindnessmatters3.bsky.social

Yeahhh but…then…we…have… polymer nanoparticles in us.

aug 14, 2025, 5:37 pm • 1 0 • view
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social

This is really huge. And it's a collaboration between Swansea University, Freie Universität Berlin, and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Whatever the damage being done to medical science in the US, the work keeps moving forward elsewhere. Very encouraging.

aug 14, 2025, 4:29 pm • 106 11 • view
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social

And speaking of breakthroughs - AGAIN, WOAH: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (this time from M.I.T.).

aug 14, 2025, 5:03 pm • 41 3 • view
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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org

Meanwhile, the harm that is being done by using the same terminology for this method that we're using for chatgpt is immeasurable. They're very much not the same.

aug 14, 2025, 5:07 pm • 9 0 • view
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Momma of Tigger ✨️🦋 @thexquisiteh.bsky.social

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Holly Almost Halloween Murray @haminator22.bsky.social

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Amy @amythebirder.bsky.social

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aug 14, 2025, 4:42 pm • 1 0 • view