STEMsocial Distilled #3

An here we go for a third edition of this distilled of the best STEMsocial posts. Surprise, surprise, the edition of this week is released on Monday. Most posts that are advertised today can consequently still be voted on. Therefore, please don't be shy and don't hesitate to give them a read and show your support (if not already done). These posts are definitely worthy! As for previous weeks, @lemouth took the time to deal with this compilation.

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Before moving on with the two best posts that have been selected from all the posts found by our curators last week, here is the most supported ones:

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Our top choices

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Nanobodies – Production, Advantages, and Use

We have all heard about antibodies. But who knows what a nanobody is? There is a connection, of course, and nanobodies can actually be very useful to help fighting various diseases. Cancers consist in one example. To know more about those beasts, please have a look to this last post from @suesa. From your reading, you will also learn the connection with llamas (see the picture).

Causes of Covid-19 lethality and possible new therapies

The COVID-19 is everywhere in the news today. In his very interesting last post, @girolamomarotta discusses the connection between the COVID-19 and tromboses. This quite important relation could actually englighten us with respect to get a more appropriate treatment for the patients entering in intensive care units. Don't hesitate to read the post for more information.

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Statistics

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STEMSocial offers support to anyone using our app, stem.openhive.network. We recall that:

• Posting an article through the app automatically yields a 5% stronger upvote at curation time.
• Posting a reply to an article (or to another reply) from the app can sometimes yield some support.
• Setting @steemstem as a beneficiary to the post automatically yields a stronger upvote (up to 5%).

Last week, the STEMsocial curator team has supported 40 posts written by 29 authors. 11 of these posts have been posted through the app (and got a 5% stronger upvote). Among these 40 posts, we find:

• 20 small upvotes (less than 20%)
• 12 medium upvotes (in the 20%-50% range)
• 8 large upvotes (larger than 50%)

In addition, we have upvoted 5 comments posted through the app, written by 2 authors.

The list of upvoted post authors is: @acont, @alchemage, @aqua.nano, @astrophoto.kevin, @azulear, @borjan, @capp, @carlos84, @cervantes, @cheva, @cyprianj, @dexterdev, @emiliomoron, @felixrodriguez, @gentleshaid, @girolamomarotta, @iamphysical, @lemouth, @lupafilotaxia, @mathowl, @newton666, @ozelot47, @pibara, @rbalzan79, @rt395, @sciencevienna, @suesa, @uyobong, @walterprofe

The comments that have been upvoted are from: @agmoore, @iamphysical

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• supporting our funding proposal;
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See you all next week!

^{PS: This article has been formatted for the STEMsocial front-end. Please see here for a better reading.}