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    How Much Light is Best For Tomato Seedlings?

    How much light should tomato seedlings get? If you give them too little, they will become tall, skinny, unhealthy plants, a condition called leggy. If you give them too much the leaves will be damaged. How much is the best amount? The new science of growing tomato seedlings will surprise you...
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    Targeted Pancreatic Cancer Therapy Approach Tested in Two Patients, Resulting in Metastasis Shrinkage

    Researchers at City of Hope have identified a new molecular target for treating pancreatic cancer and reported on a series of preclinical studies and the first clinical evidence indicating the potential for a therapeutic strategy that they say could form the basis for future clinical trials...
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    GSK, ABL Bio Ink Up-to-$2.75B+ Neurodegenerative Collaboration

    GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has agreed to develop new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases using ABL Bio’s platform technology for effectively delivering molecules across the blood-brain barrier (BBB), through a collaboration that could generate more than £2.15 billion ($2.75 billion) for the...
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    Huntington’s Disease Progression May Be Slowed by Regenerative Strategy

    Research in a mouse model of Huntington’s disease has shown that the adult brain can generate new neurons that integrate into key motor circuits. Building on previous work, the new findings, by a team at the Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC)...
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    Cytokine Regulates Anxiety Modulating Brain Circuits, Linking Immunity and Behavior

    Cytokines are well-known players in the immune response, helping to control inflammation and coordinate the responses of other immune cells. However, a growing body of evidence suggests that some cytokines also influence the brain, leading to behavioral changes during illness. Now, two new...
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    New Target for Lyme Disease Vaccine Shows Promise in Preclinical Models

    Lyme disease infects about 476,000 people in the United States each year and can lead to severe complications such as ongoing fatigue and joint issues. However, no human vaccine is yet commercially available. Vaccination needs to be safe, and the number of immunizations should be limited, while...
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    Plex Research Partners with Ginkgo Bioworks to Apply AI-Based Search Engine to Drug Discovery

    Plex has announced that it is partnering with Ginkgo Datapoints, a service of Gingko Bioworks, to use Plex’s artificial intelligence platform, Plex AI, to analyze the GDPx2 dataset, the latest release of a large transcriptomics survey of compound-induced gene expression from four human primary...
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    This Week in Gaming News: March 31st – April 6th, 2025

    Most weeks in the gaming world tend to float by with one or two really major pieces of news, but this week was special; for the first time in many years, a brand new console was announced. That’s right: Nintendo finally announced the Switch 2 in full this week, including how much it would cost...
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    New AI Tool Aids Multiple Sclerosis Research and Therapy Monitoring by Analyzing Existing MRI Scans

    Researchers at University College London have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can help interpret and assess how well treatments are working for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). The tool, called MindGlide, can extract key information from existing brain MRI scan...
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    Ethris and Lonza Collaborate to Develop Spray-Dried mRNA Vaccines for Respiratory Disease Prevention

    Ethris and Lonza agreed to collaborate on the development of room-temperature stable, spray-dried formulations of mRNA-based vaccine candidates, designed for mucosal delivery to combat respiratory diseases. Room-temperature stability aims to address significant supply chain challenges...
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    Remembering a Mentor: JCV

    Whenever I give a tour of the farm, as I did last Sunday for a group of folks who came out for our leg of the Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series, I talk about a friend who helped convert me from a black-thumbed New Yorker to a green-thumbed Ohioan. That man was John Vogel. John was...
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    Top 40 Urban Gardening Blogs on the Planet

    Groucho Marx famously declared he didn’t want to belong to any club that would have him as a member. In similar fashion, I’m not usually one for superlatives and am uncomfortable with praise, but every once in awhile it’s nice to be validated. So, today we share the news that we were included...
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    Columbus Home & Garden Show Giveaway!

    The Columbus Dispatch sent me tickets give to readers for the 2018 Home and Garden Show (February 17-25 at the Ohio Expo Center). I haven’t been to the show before but there are some interesting events planned. I’ll plan on attending with some farm friends February 19th when the Columbus...
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    Food for the Bees

    April 14th we’ve hosting our Second Annual Pollinator Lovers’ Plant Sale & Open House. In addition to making a few bucks for the farm and our friends at Red Oak Community School, we use this sale to share some of what we’ve learned about feeding the bees and butterflies that help feed us by...
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    Propagating with My Jewish Roots

    This past winter, Hadassah magazine ran an article titled, “My Daughter the Farmer.” If you have a Jewish mother, you won’t be surprised to learn my mom (lovingly) urged me to read it. When I did, I was drawn down a rabbit hole into the world of Jewish farmers and food educators. I had some idea...
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    Scenes from the field: 5.8.19

    direct from me to you. no review. just posted as I saw it. -in the footsteps of a farmer
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    Like a Perennial, We Rise

    [Basement-born seedlings chilling in a cold frame, in the high tunnel. (left to right clockwise – chamomile, nigella, malva, poppy, calendula, larkspur, snapdragon, celery, blanket flower, bee balm).] Late winter and early spring have been so much richer since I started growing seedlings a...
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    Cultivating a Love of Flowers

    I came to flowers later in my gardening life. I cut my teeth growing edibles. As a new gardener, I had a set of self-proclaimed black thumbs, little knowledge, a limited amount of resources, and couldn’t fathom why anyone would spend time cultivating plants that couldn’t be eaten. What was the...
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    Hope is Flowers

    Well, the entire 2021 season has come and gone and I haven’t posted anything in this space. That last offering was about flowers (see Cultivating a Love of Flowers) and those were one of the few things that did really well this year. Guess this proves the notion that you get what you give. I put...
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    A Poem in Praise of Shmita

    Snow Erases all the messy bits of the city. The broken sidewalks, the litter, the dirty piles of last week’s snow. And it’s quiet. Few cars on the street, shops closed early and You wonder why more families aren’t out dancing in the snowy twilight. Shabbat– Shmita– Focusing on rest and...
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