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Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests
Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodus
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/20/up-to-50000-nurses-could-quit-uk-over-immigration-plans-survey-suggests
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Glorious Gillespie wins UCI World Champs gold in Chile | Video
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Glorious Gillespie wins UCI World Champs gold in Chile | Video
Lara Gillespie was already a European champion before tonight but has now added an incredible world title win to her palmares
https://www.stickybottle.com/races-results/glorious-gillespie-wins-uci-world-champs-gold-in-chile-video/
about 2 months ago
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Glasgow For Europe
about 2 months ago
🚨🚨 Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit | Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit | Rafael Behr
It is the right way to go, but taking the long way round to such an obvious point has cost Labour precious time and credibility, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/22/keir-starmer-rachel-reeves-brexit-eu-labour?CMP=share_btn_url
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Nature Reviews Cancer
about 2 months ago
REVIEW🚨 The authors discuss the regulation and interplay of the metabolic #CellDeath pathways #ferroptosis, #disulfidptosis and #cuproptosis and explore how these mechanisms can be harnessed for cancer therapies. @mdanderson.bsky.social 📖 ⬇️
https://bit.ly/3L3vN...
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James O’Brien
about 2 months ago
Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
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‘When I was a child, everyone used it’: woman blames Johnson & Johnson talc for her cancer
Sue Rizzello is among thousands in UK suing the firm, which denies selling baby powder containing asbestos
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/16/woman-blames-johnson-johnson-talc-cancer
about 2 months ago
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Criminally culpable and covering it up:
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Thousands in UK sue Johnson & Johnson over talcum powder cancer risks
The claim involves 3,000 people and focuses on internal memos and scientific reports, seen by the BBC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c797wv928g8o
about 2 months ago
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Delighted to share the first major output from our CRUK-funded programme on Early Detection of Mesothelioma: DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-63846-9
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A histomorphological atlas of resected mesothelioma discovered by self-supervised learning from 3446 whole-slide images - Nature Communications
Mesothelioma is a highly lethal cancer that remains challenging to diagnose. Here, the authors curate a histomorphological atlas of resected mesothelioma and map it using self-supervised AI endorsed by human pathological assessment, revealing patterns that generate highly interpretable predictions.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63846-9
2 months ago
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Wildlife
3 months ago
2025 IUCN Report has over 47,000 Wildlife species Threatened with Extinction..
#IUCN
#wildlife
#species
#threatened
#extinction
#nature
#endangered
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Mary Lyon Centre at MRC Harwell
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"People don't do actual training in how to do animal experiments and there's such a lot that you need to think about that you just wouldn't realise unless somebody tells you." Apply by 31st August to join our comprehensive Mouse Models for Human Disease Workshop:
www.har.mrc.ac.uk/training/cou...
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Mouse Models for Human Disease Workshop
This course brings together a team of experienced mouse geneticists who guide you through the process of designing and implementing a mouse research project plan and the subsequent data analysis.
https://www.har.mrc.ac.uk/training/courses/mouse-models-for-human-disease/?occurrence=2025-09-15&time=1757930400&utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=workshop
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Cancer Research UK
4 months ago
A new study from
@lshtm.bsky.social
we funded has revealed a 92-percentage point gap in 10-year survival between the most & least deadly cancers. It's vital the National Cancer Plan for England transforms cancer care & boosts survival across all cancer types.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The deadly cancers left behind by 50 years of success
Half of people with cancer survive but lack of progress for some forms of disease is worrying experts.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ypkrzyxd1o
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Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show
Exclusive: Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdog
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/09/radioactive-water-bomb-base-scotland-leak-sea-files
4 months ago
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University of Glasgow
4 months ago
Please nominate our amazing International Student Support team for the
#WeAreInternational
Awards at UKCISA! They go above and beyond to support our international students. Please vote for the University of Glasgow by 6 Aug 👉
ukcisa.org.uk/our-work/weareinternational-awards
#TeamUofG
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Peter Stefanovic
4 months ago
Only 29% would back Brexit now
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A timely reminder of the continued danger posed by Asbestos
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BBC Radio Ulster - Assume Nothing, Killer Dust, 1. A Very Strange Event
A hush-hush factory opening. No photographs allowed. Oaths of secrecy. What's going on?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0028jr1
4 months ago
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Chrystal Paulos
5 months ago
🧵1/ New in @Cancer_Cell: Our lab discovered that Th17 cells must team up with B cells to eliminate tumors, and prevent it from coming back. 🔗 Read:
www.cell.com/cancer-cell/...
🧬This unexpected immune duo sparks tumor immunity. 🖼️Image: See schematic Th17/B cell antitumor action!
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Adoptively transferred Th17 cells cooperate with host B cells to achieve durable tumor immunity
Cole et al. report that adoptively transferred, tumor-specific Th17 cells engage host B cells and drive B cell proliferation and differentiation. These Th17 cells require B cells for sustained immunit...
https://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/fulltext/S1535-6108(25)00272-7
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Peter Stefanovic
5 months ago
Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research
www.wired.com/story/how-tr...
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How Trump Killed Cancer Research
Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-trump-killed-cancer-research/
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Simon Cook
5 months ago
The simplest, safest and easiest way to ensure your child does not die from Measles. I very much hope we are not going down the road of MAGA-land
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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UK worst in G7 for MMR jab rates, as 30m children worldwide not fully immunised
More than 14m children globally have not had single routine jab as figures show less than 90% of those eligible in UK had first MMR last year
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/15/falling-vaccination-rates-children-who-unicef
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Martin McKee
6 months ago
🧵This story on Starmer’s welfare u-turn summarises one of the biggest problems with British politics - whichever party is in power. Ministers simply don’t engage with those affected by their decisions.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘Too arrogant to listen’: how welfare bill soured Starmer’s relations with rebel MPs
MPs describe receiving veiled deselection threats as No 10 sought to quash revolt before finally backing down
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/29/they-didnt-think-wed-have-the-guts-how-labour-rebels-forced-the-governments-welfare-u-turn?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Liz Webster 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺
6 months ago
Stop 🛑 defending Brexit fantasy and start telling the truth!!! The damage began with Brexit — but hasn’t ended there. Labour doesn’t need to say it’s anti-farming. Its fiscal plans speak for themselves. Agriculture is being “managed down” — as economists warned.
www.fwi.co.uk/news/opinion...
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Opinion: Stop defending Brexit fantasy and start telling the truth - Farmers Weekly
In the years since Brexit, British agriculture has become caught in a peculiar double bind. We’re told to look forward, not back. To embrace change. To
https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/opinion/opinion-stop-defending-brexit-fantasy-and-start-telling-the-truth
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Voices for Vaccines
6 months ago
We have seen a marked decline in cervical cancer deaths in young women in the past decade.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...
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HPV vaccines linked to drop in cervical cancer deaths
From 2013-2015 to 2019-2021, mortality decreased 15% per year.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papillomavirus-hpv/hpv-vaccines-linked-drop-cervical-cancer-deaths
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Ruth Ann Crystal
6 months ago
Wow! Scientists engineered E. coli to convert plastic waste (PET) into pain medicine paracetamol (acetaminophen or Tylenol) in under 24 hours with up to 92% yield.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#medsky
#pharmsky
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Everyday painkiller made from plastic — by E. coli
Study highlights potential for sustainable synthesis of paracetamol.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01986-0
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Hetan Shah
6 months ago
Amazing hopeful story - new generations of ash trees are evolving resistance to ash dieback fungus. Evolution at work, at speed
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘New hope’: ash trees rapidly evolving resistance to dieback, study reveals
Subtle DNA changes in trees demonstrate Charles Darwin’s natural selection – although human help may be needed
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/26/ash-trees-evolve-resistance-dieback-study
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No, I don't think you're sexy.
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6 months ago
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Delighted to share our methods collaboration with Sophie Rovers & Evelien Smits on intrapleural injection to model pleural disease in mice:
www.mdpi.com/3332150
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6 months ago
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Peter Stefanovic
6 months ago
BREAKING: The House of Commons has passed the assisted dying bill. 314 MPs voted in favour, while 291 against - a majority of 23
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Once there were only 22 condors left on Earth: The LA Zoo just hatched 10 chicks
Earlier in June, wildlife enthusiasts were excited over a pair of young bald eagles that flew out of their nest for the first time, hovering high above Big Bear Lake.
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-condors-left-earth-la-zoo.html
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and the UK isn't particularly well placed to benefit....
www.economist.com/science-and-...
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America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain
Other countries may benefit. Science will suffer
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/05/21/america-is-in-danger-of-experiencing-an-academic-brain-drain
7 months ago
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Glasgow For Europe
7 months ago
Please cast your vote!
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A fellow scientist cries for help from an American gulag:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
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Opinion | I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/opinion/ice-detention-russian-scientist.html?smid=bs-share
7 months ago
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Stefan Marciniak
7 months ago
Had dinner with a French colleague in Lyon last night. He like many of our EU friends wants us back in the EU. He said that the obvious disaster of Brexit at least turned the French rightwing off the idea of Frexit.
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Cancer Research UK
7 months ago
This International Nurses Day and every day, we celebrate our amazing nurses 💙 Their dedication and commitment is pivotal to our mission of bringing about a world where everybody can lead longer, better lives, free from the fear of cancer. Thank you for all that you do!
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Dr Neil Stone
7 months ago
Love the graphic Seems my post made the point We need to push back against anti vaccine nonsense!
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Best for Britain
8 months ago
Mark Carney is asked how the lessons of Brexit apply to Trump's tariff policy. "When you break off or substantially rupture trade relations with major trading partners... you end up with slower growth, higher inflation, higher interest rates, volatility, a lower currency, a weaker economy." ~AA
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Eddie Crouch
8 months ago
I’ll be on BBC Panorama tonight speaking to our damning new research on sugar levels in baby pouches. Parents are being hoodwinked into thinking they’re buying healthy options. Government needs to step in.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
8 months ago
Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
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8 months ago
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Cancer Research UK
8 months ago
Cancer is a global issue and we need to work together to beat it. This week we published a report outlining how the UK and EU can better support scientific collaboration. We urge policymakers to take our recommendations on board at next month’s UK-EU political summit. Read more 👇
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Less red tape and lower costs: How the UK-EU political reset can support cancer research progress worldwide - Cancer Research UK - Cancer News
We reflect on how the UK and EU could grasp opportunities for scientific cooperation to promote health and wealth across the continent
https://cruk.ink/447cJsp
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Elizabeth McKenna
8 months ago
Why do tumors tend to metastasize to lymph nodes? Super interesting insights into that question, published online in Cancer Discovery today. One of those papers that grabs you at the title.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
8 months ago
The new Eurobaromer poll shows the highest ever support for the EU! 🇪🇺 74% think their country benefits from EU membership 🇪🇺 66% want the EU to play a greater role in protecting them against global crises and security risks 🇪🇺 89% say EU Member States should act more united against global challenges
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Survey confirms Europe’s citizens want the EU to protect them and act in unity | News | European Parliament
The European Parliament’s Winter 2025 Eurobarometer survey, released today, highlights historic levels of approval for EU membership linked to peace and security.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20250317IPR27385/survey-confirms-europe-s-citizens-want-the-eu-to-protect-them-and-act-in-unity
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Bylines Network
8 months ago
A brand new piece on Starmer’s refusal to consider rejoining the EU and what MPs really think about this. /2
#TruthToPower
@sussexbylines.co.uk
sussexbylines.co.uk/politics/why...
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Why the ‘red lines’, Keir Starmer? We should rejoin the EU, say MPs
Despite Trump's tariffs, No.10 is still opposed to joining a customs union
https://sussexbylines.co.uk/politics/why-the-red-lines-keir-starmer-we-should-rejoin-the-eu-say-mps/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-the-red-lines-keir-starmer-we-should-rejoin-the-eu-say-mps
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Peter Stefanovic
8 months ago
Children are among the NHS patients being denied access to revolutionary cancer drugs as a result of red tape and extra costs caused by Brexit, according to a report leaked to the Guardian
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‘Children with cancer cannot wait’: the human cost of clinical trial delays after Brexit
Exclusive: Price of importing drugs for a Paris and Birmingham study has almost quadrupled to £175,000
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/20/children-with-cancer-cannot-wait-the-human-cost-of-clinical-trial-delays-after-brexit
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NHS cancer patients denied life-saving drugs due to Brexit costs, report finds
Exclusive: Britons found to have ‘lost out’ while rest of Europe benefits from golden age of research and treatments
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/20/nhs-cancer-patients-denied-life-saving-drugs-due-to-brexit-costs-report-finds
8 months ago
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS
8 months ago
"When a US Attorney wields the power of his office to target medical journals bc of their content & editorial processes, he isn't doing his job. He's abusing his authority to try to chill protected speech."
#saveourscience
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Medical Journals Get Letters From DOJ
At least three journals received letters from a U.S. Attorney asking about 'competing viewpoints'
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/115180?fbclid=IwY2xjawJviTVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHnyb6NmIMZ38srjaCyU9TJjLq-dIbgQkW15YUC6dpgLINwwoH0oYcpbzVrpX_aem_zuWjLWcTJ-Y3nBPXXot2yQ
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD
9 months ago
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security
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Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)
Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/opinion/young-american-scientists.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9E4.ZT_e.CgMdZtEqD7xp
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I realise not everyone has access to the Economist - which is a shame as it is a rare publication that takes economics and it's societal impacts seriously
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
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President Trump’s mindless tariffs will cause economic havoc
But the rest of the world can limit the damage
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/04/03/president-trumps-mindless-tariffs-will-cause-economic-havoc
9 months ago
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University of Glasgow
9 months ago
Applications are now open for our Access to Higher Education Programme! Part-time and flexible, it’s a route into degrees including Nursing, Education, Law, Arts, Social Sciences, Sciences and Engineering.
glasgow.ac.uk/access
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9 months ago
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PREDICT-Meso
9 months ago
PREDICT-Meso Newsletter #9 April 2025 is now live. Check out the link below for possible opportunities with the PREDICT-Meso Network and an exciting update on the PREDICT-Meso International Conference
sway.cloud.microsoft/LCgaBAzRiBAu...
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PREDICT-Meso Newsletter (Apr 2025)
Welcome the April 2025 PREDICT-Meso Newsletter
https://sway.cloud.microsoft/LCgaBAzRiBAu3Cbk?ref=Link
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