Fasciation in a female zucchini. The third picture is a normal female flower. The first 2 show abnormal cell proliferation. I have no idea if the bees got in there to pollinate it, or if it can even be pollinated. The 4th picture shows the zucchini itself is about 4 inches long, much longer than a normal and pollinated female fruit. #fasciation #vegetablegardening #gardening #growyourown #veggies #zucchini #abnormalities #deformity

#newpublication

Structural #MRI studies in first-episode #psychosis and the clinical high-risk state have consistently shown volumetric #abnormalities. Aim of the present study was to introduce #radiomics texture features in identification of psychosis.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-022-02242-z

Am I normal? Are you normal?

"Never get a medical test," my father once advised me, "unless you already know what's wrong." Paradoxical advice, I thought, coming from a doctor. When I suggested as much, he explained that tests are guaranteed to show abnormalities, and while a layman might regard that as the precise point, ab­nor­m­al­ities are mostly irrelevant because no real person is what diag­nos­ticians call normal ...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59785153-am-i-normal

#normalities #abnormalities #books

Parenchymal #lung #abnormalities following #hospitalisation for #COVID19 and viral pneumonitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis http://thorax.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/78/2/191?rss=1

Longitudinal follow-up of #postacute #COVID19 #syndrome: DLCO, quality-of-life and MRI #pulmonary gas-exchange #abnormalities, https://thorax.bmj.com/content/early/2023/01/03/thorax-2022-219378

Sea urchins raised in sea water with high levels of #plastic #pollution die from developmental #abnormalities. “Even if plastic is not killing animals by ingestion or #entanglement, it can also kill animals by the chemicals in it or on it"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/plastic-nurdles-stop-sea-urchins-developing-properly-study-finds #ocean #PVC #nurdles #beach persistent organic pollutants #wildlife

"#MRI reveals #significant #brain #abnormalities post-#COVID
Meeting Announcement

Radiological Society of North America[…]"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/971222