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Cake day: November 8th, 2023

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  • Eventually, they became confident that they were working with new material from two fragmentary Euripides plays, Polyidus and Ino. Twenty-two of the lines were previously known in slightly varied versions, but “80 percent was brand-new stuff,” Gibert says.

    This cleared up my first thought: how can you tell the lost writings of Euripides from the lost writings of Sophocles (or from the writings of playwrights that haven’t survived at all). I mean, unless these are sizeable fragments, it might not be easy to tell even Aeschylus from Euripides









  • The researchers then bypassed exercise entirely, injecting recombinant PEDF into mice for 4 weeks. While the effects were not as profound as in the 8-week exercise experiment, PEDF was found to decrease some senescence markers in lung tissues.

    It isn’t clear to me in which way the PEDF is working here, as the article points to many of the benefits of exercise in general: reduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS), inflammation reduction, and reduction of senescence-related factors. Still, seems to be doing something.