Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CzUVGrixMAo/

Recall By: Cpsc;  Grizzly Industrial Inc.

Problem:  Grizzly Industrial and Shop Fox Wood Lathes have defective cutting tools that can break off creating projectiles that strike the operator and bystanders with lacerations and other injuries.

Sold:  About 21,300 of these lathes were sold in the US and about 60 were sold in Canada were sold at Alaska Industrial Hardware, Bibb Tool Co., Workshop Tools Inc., Bargain Supply, Big Tool Store and other hardware stores nationwide, and online at Amazon.com, The Home Depot, Northern Tool, Hardware Sales, Optics Planet and Grizzly.com and on other websites.

Actions:  Stop using these recalled wood lathes and contact Grizzly Industrial at 1-888-615-7944 or via email at [email protected] to receive a free repair kit.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2024/Grizzly-Industrial-Recalls-Wood-Lathes-Due-to-Injury-and-Laceration-Hazards

#grizzly #woodlathe #cuttingtool #projectiles #iinjuries #lacerations #recall

Recall By: CPSC;  Yoocaa Direct

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CzUUMzERg5L/

Problem:  Yoocaa Baby Loungers fail to meet federal safety standards as they lack a stand and have dangerously short side heights, overly thick sleeping pads, and openings at the foot of the lounger that could entrap the baby.

Sold:  About 4140 baby loungers were sold at amazon.com.

Actions:  Stop using these baby loungers and contact Yoocaa Direct by email at [email protected] for instructions about receiving a full refund.  Alternatively, I’d contact Amazon customer service.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2024/Yoocaa-Baby-Loungers-Recalled-Due-to-Suffocation-Risk-and-Fall-and-Entrapment-Hazards-Fails-to-Meet-Safety-Requirements-for-Infant-Sleep-Products-Exclusively-on-Amazon-com-by-Yoocaa-Direct

#yoocadirect #babylounger #falls #suffocation #entrapment #recall

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CzUThPkxzR2/

Recall By: CPSC; UncleWu Life

Problem:  Uncle Wu Infant Bath Seats fail to meet federal safety regulations for infant baths seats including stability and leg opening size.  They can tip over leading to infant drowning.

Sold:  About 360 bath seats were sold at amazon.com.

Actions:  Immediately stop using these recalled infant bath seats and contact UncleWu Life via email at [email protected]  to receive a pre-paid label to return the infant bath seat.  Alternatively, I’d contact Amazon customer service.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2024/UncleWu-Life-Recalls-Infant-Bath-Seats-Due-to-Drowning-Hazard-Violation-of-Bath-Seat-Requirements-Sold-Exclusively-on-Amazon-com-Recall-Alert

#unclewu #amazon #bathseat #tipping #drowning #recall

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CzUSteNxmSE/

Recall By: CPSC;  Lochinvar

Problem: Lochinvar, A.O. Smith, and State Industries brandwed condensing residential boilers have defective flue collectors that crack allowing the boiler to release carbon monoxide that may poison and kill you.  Carbon monoxide ties up the hemoglobin in your red blood cells preventing them from carrying oxygen and killing you.

Sold: About 17, 370 of these boilers were sold in the US and about 782 units were sold in Canada by independent contractors, plumbers, and plumbing supply vendors and distributors between August 2021 through September 2023.

Actions:  If you have one of these boilers in your home, contact your installer to verify that your boiler is recalled and to schedule a free repair.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2024/Lochinvar-Recalls-Condensing-Boilers-Due-to-Risk-of-Carbon-Monoxide-Poisoning

#boilers #lochinvar #aosmith #stateindustries #carbonmonoxide #poisoning #recall

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CzUSCC_R5Ox/

Recall By: CPSC;  Murf Electric Bikes LLC

Problem:  These electric bikes do not meet US safety standards for effective braking power due to a brake control line defect and this leads to falls and injuries.

Sold:  About 9,000 electric bikes were sold at Murf’s store in San Clemente, CA, at bicycle stores nationwide, and online at murfelectricbikes.com.

Actions:  Immediately stop using these electric bikes until you have contacted Murf at 1-888-855-0770, watched the online video, and made the repair to the brake lines.  

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2024/Murf-Electric-Bikes-Recalls-Electric-Bicycles-Due-to-Fall-and-Injury-Hazards-Recall-Alert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yomCMeGnVTE

#murf #electricbike #brakes #falls #injuries #recall

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CzURW2Pxpef/

Recall By: CPSC;  Dixon Ticonderoga

Problem: These children’s craft buttons contain toxic lead levels above the federal lead content safe specification. Lead is neurotoxic to the developing child brain.

Sold: About 890 button seats were sold at Blick Art Materials and Staples stores nationwide and online at dickblick.com, staples.com, quill.com, schoolspecialty.com, sprichards.com and aquaphoenixsci.com.

Actions:  Take these recalled buttons away from your children and contact Dixon Ticonderoga Customer Service at 1-800-333-2545 or via the email [email protected] to receive a prepaid mailer in order to return the buttons and receive a refund.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2024/Dixon-Ticonderoga-Recalls-Creativity-Street-Childrens-Assorted-Craft-Buttons-Due-to-Violation-of-Federal-Lead-Content-Ban

#creativitystreet #buttons #children #lead #toxicity #recall

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CzUQhuVxe0-/

Bioengineeers at the Washington State University have developed a relatively compact machine for rapidly growing the T killer cells employed by many immunotherapeutic regimens to destroy cancer cells.  Their system utilizes centrifugal flow techniques to accelerate immune cell propagation to a speed 30% faster than most current techniques.  Since one popular and effective cancer immuotherapy, the CAR-T strategy used for treating leukemias, requires as many as 250 million modified T-cells for each infusion, rapid amplification of T cell numbers is mandatory.  The researchers are hard at work modifying this initial bioreactor in order to produce greater numbers of cells even faster.  Patents are pending to facilitate commercialization.

https://aiche.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/btpr.3388

#bioreactor #centrifugalflow #tcells #immunotherapy #cart #leukemia

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CzUOXNWR0i9/

The Mayo Clinic and a biotech spinoff Anuman have developed 3 separate ECG-AI models that together can pinpoint hearts at risk for potentially devastating attacks some 3 years earlier.  These independent AI algorithms look at coronary arterial calcium deposits, coronary arterial blockages, and left ventricular wall movement abnormalities.  To develop these models, the researchers retrospectively analyzed the electronic medical records of more than 7 million patients from across the US.  Anumana specializes in the use of AI to develop enhanced interpretive models for analysis of ECGs and ECHO cardiograms that not only predict coronary artery-related disease but also arrhythmias, degenerative heart disease, valvular disease, and pulmonary hypertension.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(23)00436-4/fulltext

https://anumana.ai/

#AI #ECG #coronaryarterydisease #myocardial #echo #mayo #anumana

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CzUNZXCxzeV/

A literal “body on a chip” permits the testing of drugs and other biologics on multiple organs simultaneously.  Developed at Northwestern University, the so-called Lattice device permits the simultaneous testing of potential therapeutics on up to 8 different organ systems.  The organ tissue samples or artificially-generated organoids are placed in separate wells, and the medications to be tested flow into each well via micro-channels.  Another function of Lattice permits testing the effects of one organ on another or others.  For example, a hormone-producing organ in one well is bathed in nutrient media that picks up the hormones and carries them to other wells containing other organs.  It’s a brave new world, and it’s coming……Someday soon.

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2023/LC/D3LC00378G

#microfluidics #organoids #drugtesting #lattice

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CzUL_pSR9v6/

Bioengineers at Rice University have developed a novel metamaterial that can generate a steady microvolt electrical current when its exposed to an alternating magnetic field.  Implanting this material in select portions of the brain would permit clinicians to stimulate specific neural centers by exposing a patient to a focused magnetic field.  The device requires no internal power source.  So far, the researchers have used the material to wirelessly trigger nerve signals in the peripheral nerves of experimental animals.  With refinement, the technique could come to the clinic…..Someday soon.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-023-01680-4

#metamaterial #magnetoelectric #neurons #implants #stimulation