AJ TaylorDecember 19, 2020Last Updated: December 16, 2020
The area is seeing more first-time visitors to food banks during the economic fallout from the pandemic, so an annual food drive involving wild-game hunters aims to expand its reach. For nearly 20 years, Iowa’s Department of Natural Resources has spearheaded a program each fall in which meat from several thousand deer is donated to food banks across the state. This year, a new twist connects hunters directly with the families who’ll receive the donated venison. Joe Wilkinson, president of the Iowa Wildlife Federation, said it adds a personal touch to the process and gives recipients the chance to request what they need.
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BOSTON, Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ NanoMosaic has developed a streamlined platform with novel physical structures, MosaicNeedles™, to enable enhanced-generation digital protein interrogation. The Tessie™ platform eliminates the bottleneck of beads, used for protein capture and labeling, and the limitations associated with them. The novel MosaicNeedle™ structures enable the unlabeled digital quantitation of proteins and nucleic acids across seven orders of dynamic range with high sensitivity.
NanoMosaic first Tessie™ beta placement at Massachusetts General Hospital.
The company announced that the first Tessie™ beta placement at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), within the lab of Dr. Zhongcong Xie, Henry Knowles Beecher Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and Director of Biological Biomarker Consultation Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital will be used by MGH researchers to develop a panel of markers for the study of postoperative delirium
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If there’s one thing working from home has taught me, it’s how important getting outside at least once a day is for your health. Not only does it benefit your physical health, but your mental wellbeing also gets a nice little boost from the great outdoors, with a little help from some great podcasts.
When all of this WFH stuff kicked off back in March, I really started to struggle after the first couple of weeks. Once I realised it was because I sat inside all day like a goddamn mushroom, everything changed. You really don’t think about the hidden benefits of your daily commute until it hurls itself out of your routine, you know?