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When trying to remove life-threatening clots from blood vessels, current technologies are successful on only about half of the first attempts – if at all. A new surgical tool, however, is claimed to boost that figure to an astounding 90%.
Although blood clots are partially made up of red blood cells, they’re held together by tangles of a thread-like protein known as fibrin. Existing clot-removal treatments typically involve inserting a device into the affected blood vessel via a catheter, then using that device to either suck up the fibrin clump or snare it then drag it out.
Whichever the case, the fibrin often gets inadvertently broken up in the process, with some of the pieces proceeding to travel down the blood vessel. Those fragments could ultimately form into new blood clots, in locations that are more difficult to reach.
That’s where the milli-spinner comes in.
Developed by Asst. Prof. Renee Zhao, Assoc. Prof. Jeremy Heit and colleagues at Stanford University, the catheter-delivered device takes the form of a rapidly rotating tube with a series of fins and slits at the tip. As that tip spins near the clot, it creates both compressive and shear forces.
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The compressive force presses the fibrin threads together as they’re sucked up against the open end of the tube, while the shear force rolls them up into a small, tight, fully intact ball. That ball is then easily and completely removed via suction. The freed-up red blood cells get carried away by the bloodstream.
In blood-vessel-model and live pig tests, the milli-spinner was able to reduce the volume of clots by up to 95%, allowing for successful clot removal on approximately 90% of first attempts. This would constitute a huge life-saving difference when treating clot-related conditions such as stroke and heart attack.
“It works so well, for a wide range of clot compositions and sizes,” says Zhao. “Even for tough, fibrin-rich clots, which are impossible to treat with current technologies, our milli-spinner can treat them using this simple yet powerful mechanics concept to densify the fibrin network and shrink the clot.”
The scientists have now started a spinoff company to commercialize the technology, which they believe could be adapted to treat other conditions such as kidney stones.
A paper on the research was recently published in the journal Nature.
Source: Stanford University
BBCIn the early 2010s, two ornate chairs said to have once belonged on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles appeared on the French antiques market.
Thought to be the most expensive chairs made for Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France’s Ancien Régime, they were stamped with the seal of Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot, a celebrated cabinet maker who worked in Paris in the 1700s.
A significant find, the pair were declared “national treasures” by the French government in 2013, at the request of Versailles.
The palace, which displays such items in its vast museum collection, expressed an interest in buying the chairs but the price was deemed too dear.
They were instead sold to Qatari Prince Mohammed bin Hamad Al Thani for an eye-watering €2m (£1.67m).
The chairs made up a remarkable number of 18th-Century royal furniture that had appeared on the antiques market in the past few years.
Other items included another set of chairs purported to have sat in one of Marie Antoinette’s chambers in Versailles; a separate pair said to have belonged to Madame du Barry, King Louis XV’s mistress; the armchair of King Louis XVI’s sister, Princess Élisabeth; and a pair of ployants – or stools – that belonged to the daughter of King Louis XV, Princess Louise Élisabeth.
Most of these were bought by Versailles to display in its museum collection, while one chair was sold to the wealthy Guerrand-Hermès family.
But in 2016, this assortment of royal chairs would become embroiled in a national scandal that would rock the French antiques world, bringing the trade into disrepute.
The reason? The chairs were in fact all fakes.
The scandal saw one of France’s leading antiques experts, Georges “Bill” Pallot, and award-winning cabinetmaker, Bruno Desnoues, put on trial on charges of fraud and money laundering following a nine-year investigation.
SuppliedGalerie Kraemer and its director, Laurent Kraemer, were also accused of deception by gross negligence for selling on some of the chairs – something they both deny.
All three defendants are set to appear at a court in Pontoise, near Paris on Wednesday following a trial in March. Mr Pallot and Mr Desnoues have admitted to their crimes, while Mr Kraemer and his gallery dispute the charge of deception by gross negligence.
Considered the top scholar on French 18th-Century chairs, having written the authoritative book on the subject, Mr Pallot was often called upon by Versailles, among others, to give his expert opinion on whether historical items were the real deal. He was even called as an expert witness in French courts when there were doubts about an item’s authenticity.
His accomplice, Mr Desnoues, was a decorated cabinetmaker and sculptor who had won a number of prestigious awards, including best sculptor in France in 1984, and had been employed as the main restorer of furniture at Versailles.
Speaking in court in March, Mr Pallot said the scheme started as a “joke” with Mr Desnoues in 2007 to see if they could replicate an armchair they were already working on restoring, that once belonged to Madame du Barry.
Masters of their crafts, they managed the feat, convincing other experts that it was a chair from the period.
And buoyed by their success, they started making more.
Foc Kan/WireImage/Getty ImagesDescribing how they went about constructing the chairs, the two described in court how Mr Pallot sourced wood frames at various auctions for low prices, while Mr Desnoues aged wood at his workshop to make others.
They were then sent for gilding and upholstery, before Mr Desnoues added designs and a wood finish. He added stamps from some of the great furniture-workers of the 18th Century, which were either faked or taken from real furniture of the period.
Once they were finished, Mr Pallot sold them through middlemen to galleries like Kraemer and one he himself worked at, Didier Aaron. They would then get sold onto auction houses such as Sotheby’s of London and Drouot of Paris.
“I was the head and Desnoues was the hands,” Mr Pallot told the court smilingly.
“It went like a breeze,” he added. “Everything was fake but the money.”
Prosecutors allege the two men made an estimated profit of more than €3m off the forged chairs – though Mr Pallot and Mr Desnoues estimated their profits to be a lower amount of €700,000. The income was deposited in foreign bank accounts, prosecutors said.
Getty ImagesLawyers representing Versailles told the BBC that Mr Pallot, a lecturer at the Sorbonne, managed to deceive the institution because of his “privileged access to the documentation and archives of Versailles and the Louvre Museum as part of his academic research”.
A statement from lawyer Corinne Hershkovitch’s team said that thanks to Mr Pallot’s “thorough knowledge” of the inventories of royal furniture recorded as having existed at Versailles in the 18th Century, he was able to determine which items were missing from collections and to then make them with the help of Mr Desnoues.
Mr Desnoues also had access to original chairs he had made copies of, they added, “enabling him to produce fakes that had all the visual appearance of an authentic, up to the inventory numbers and period labels”.
“The fraudulent association between these two professionally accomplished men, recognised by their peers, made it possible to deceive the French institutions that regarded them as partners and to betray their trust, thereby damaging the reputation of Versailles and its curators,” they said.
Prosecutor Pascal Rayer said the trial highlighted the need for more robust regulation of the art market, and also shone a light on the standards antiques dealers should abide by.
The court heard authorities were alerted to the scheme when the lavish lifestyle of a Portuguese man and his partner caught the attention of French authorities.
Questioned by police about the acquisition of properties in France and Portugal worth €1.2m while on an income of about €2,500 a month, the man – who it turned out worked as a handyman in Parisian galleries – confessed to his part in working as a middleman who collaborated in the furniture fraud, AFP news agency reported. The money trail then led investigators to Mr Desnoues and Mr Pallot.
Charges against some of those originally indicted in the case, including middlemen, were later dropped.
But charges against both Laurent Kraemer and Galerie Kraemer, which sold on some of the forged chairs to collectors such as Versailles and Qatar’s Prince al-Thani, were upheld.
Prosecutors allege that while the gallery itself may have been duped into first buying the fake pieces, Mr Kraemer and the gallery were “grossly negligent” in failing to sufficiently check the items’ authenticity before selling them on to collectors at high prices.
Getty ImagesIn his closing arguments, prosecutor Mr Rayer said that based on Galerie Kraemer’s “reputation and contacts, they could have taken the furniture to Versailles or the Louvre to compare them.
“They could also have hired other experts given the amounts at stake and considering the opacity on the origin of the chairs.”
Speaking in court, a lawyer representing Mr Kraemer and the gallery insisted his client “is victim of the fraud, not an accomplice”, stating Mr Kraemer never had direct contact with the forgers.
In a statement to the BBC, lawyers Martin Reynaud and Mauricia Courrégé added: “The gallery was not an accomplice of the counterfeiters, the gallery did not know the furniture was fake, and it could not have detected it”.
“Like the Château de Versailles and the specialists who classified the furniture as national treasures, the Kraemer gallery was a victim of the forgers,” they added.
“We are waiting for the judgement to recognise this.”
The BBC has contacted Mr Pallot’s lawyer for comment. The BBC was unable to reach Mr Desnoues or his lawyer.
B2B music distributor FUGA has partnered with fan app Single to enable FUGA’s artist and label clients to deliver music and merch directly to their Shopify storefronts.
FUGA, owned by Downtown Music, announced the new integration on Thursday (June 5), calling it the company’s “first step” into direct-to-consumer e-commerce.
“Traditionally, artist and label teams have had to manage their D2C sales, streaming, and digital distribution through separate platforms, leading to friction and missed opportunities,” FUGA said in a statement.
The integration with Shopify, via Single, means artists and labels will have “a starting point to grow their DSP presence and direct-to-fan business in one place.”
Ottawa, Canada-headquartered e-commerce platform Shopify invested in Nashville-headquartered Single in 2022, resulting in the fan app launching a number of e-commerce-related features, such as token-gated sales and the ability to mint NFTs.
Through the new partnership, artists and labels with FUGA will be able to place their music in their Shopify storefront alongside merch and access to listening parties and exclusive communities. Sales made through the storefronts will be reported to US, UK and Australian charts.
“Artists thrive when they have multiple ways to build deeper relationships with their fans across multiple channels.”
Tommy Stalknecht, Single
“Our partnership with FUGA isn’t just about sales – it’s about transforming distribution into a direct fan connection,” said Tommy Stalknecht, Co-founder and CEO at Single.
“No other platform gives artists and labels this level of control, turning every release into an opportunity to engage fans, capture first-party data, and drive direct revenue. Artists thrive when they have multiple ways to build deeper relationships with their fans across multiple channels.”
“Artists today need full-scale business solutions. The music industry is becoming more complex, with evolving revenue streams and growing demands for direct fan relationships,” FUGA President Christiaan Kröner said.
“We understand these challenges and always try to remain ahead of the curve in addressing them. By integrating Single’s powerful direct-to-fan app into our platform, we’re providing artists with the tools they need to monetize content, engage fans, and optimize revenue – everything they need, all in one place.”
“By integrating Single’s powerful direct-to-fan app into our platform, we’re providing artists with the tools they need to monetize content, engage fans, and optimize revenue.”
Christiaan Kröner, FUGA
Over the past year, Amsterdam-headquartered FUGA has been busy signing distribution and marketing deals with labels, including with L.A.-based indie Mind Of A Genius Records, Paris-based Record Makers, Belgium’s Potion Records, and UK labels One House, Critical Music and Berry’s Room.
The company has also expanded its global footprint, moving into the Asia-Pacific region through partnerships with labels in Indonesia, India and the Philippines, as well as into the Australia/New Zealand market through a partnership with Australia-born UNIFIED Music Group.Music Business Worldwide
“It works like a pyramid,” said Nemer, whose research focuses on Bolsonarism, misinformation, and social media, and the “human infrastructure” behind political misinformation that spreads through WhatsApp. “At the top, you have people who produce misinformation. In the middle, you have Bolsonaro supporters who work like a swarm of bees to spread misinformation on the platform. At the bottom, it’s average Brazilians who are in groups where this misinformation ends up, and they, in turn, spread it to other groups they are in.”
Communities, Nemer fears, will make it easy for the people at the top to manage these misinformation networks.
Experts like Nemer are right to be concerned. When WhatsApp announced in April that it wouldn’t launch the feature until later in the year, Bolsonaro was reportedly angry that the company wasn’t launching it immediately. In July, Brazil’s federal prosecutors reportedly asked the company to delay its launch until after the country’s October elections to avoid the spread of fake news and misinformation.
WhatsApp ultimately rolled out the feature four days after Bolsonaro’s defeat. When BuzzFeed News asked if Meta had waited after the election to launch Communities, a WhatsApp spokesperson simply replied, “No.”
After this story was published, a WhatsApp spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that the feature wasn’t available in Brazil yet and wouldn’t be until January.
Over the years, WhatsApp has put guardrails in place to slow down the spread of misinformation on its platform, such as clearly labeling forwarded messages, a major source of misinformation, and restricting forwarding messages to only five groups at a time. Now, the company is putting in an additional limitation: People can only forward messages that are forwarded to them to just one group at a time, instead of five.
“We believe this will meaningfully reduce the spread of potentially harmful misinformation in community groups,” a WhatsApp spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.
Still, Nemer is skeptical. “The idea — having a group of groups — is great,” he said. “But what is the point of forwarding limits when you can now post something to a single Announcement group and still reach way more people than if you were to send a single forward to a single group?”
It was their sixth attempt in a week, a perilous trek down Gaza’s southern coast towards a US-backed food distribution site. Abed Zaydan, 14, and his mother Reem hoped that, this time, they would arrive before the food ran out.
Eight hours into their walk on Tuesday, as they neared the centre, the sound of tank and gunfire erupted. Zaydan saw dead bodies at his feet. He lay face down on the ground next to them with his sister and mother, waiting for first light. People began to whisper that it might be safe to move.
From the ground, Zaydan saw his mother start to stand up, before a sniper bullet felled her with a shot to the head. “Because I’m young, I got scared and left my mother,” he said. “I ran away.”
Zaydan is one of eight Palestinians who spoke to the Financial Times about their attempt to reach the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site in western Rafah over the past week. Their twilight journeys thronged with thousands of people, hoping to get close to the aid centre before its 5am opening time so they might have a chance to get food.
For Palestinians, desperate for supplies after Israel imposed a more than two-month blockade on the strip, their attempts to get food from GHF brought more horror than relief. Each day was different, but the dangers they described were the same.
Tanks, quadcopter drones, and snipers, which they said came from the Israeli army, fired on Palestinians waiting for the site to open.
For telecoms worker Ehab Jomaa, it was 4am on Sunday when shooting flared up at Al-Alam roundabout, the final point at which people waited before sprinting to the distribution site.
He and five friends took cover in the ruins of a bombed-out beach hotel. They turned off their phones, and stayed quiet.
Then a quadcopter appeared, and started to fire warning shots. “It turned on its microphone and said: ‘You must leave, we’ll shoot you.’ As soon as we stood up and got ready to leave, it moved to a different area,” Jomaa said. “It shot a boy seven metres away from us in the chest.”
Witnesses who spoke to the FT said the run down the final stretch to the distribution site began around 5am. Those who arrived at the site often found all the food already gone.
Many tried to reach the distribution site several days in a row, despite the killings. They were so hungry after Israel’s siege that they kept trying.
The casualties were heaviest on two days. Israeli forces killed 27 people and injured 161 waiting for aid on Tuesday morning, Gaza’s ministry of health said. On Sunday it said 35 people were killed and over 150 injured by Israeli fire on crowds gathered in the Al-Alam area. All of those killed Sunday were shot in the head or chest, the ministry said.
The ICRC said its Rafah field hospital received around 180 patients on each of the two days, with the majority suffering gunshot wounds. All of them said they were trying to reach a distribution site.
Israel disputed the health ministry’s characterisation of the shootings, but acknowledged it had fired “warning” — and on Tuesday “additional” — shots at people who it said had strayed from the designated access route or approached troops.
An Israeli security official said some shootings had taken place outside the hours of operation of the GHF sites, when the surrounding areas were classified as “a war zone that [civilians] are not meant to be in”.
The official added that changes to the access routes were being made to make them safer. The IDF has also claimed some of the shots were fired by Hamas.
On his fifth journey to the distribution site, 45-year-old Hossam Zorab on Tuesday watched as his friend was shot in the head a short distance ahead of him. Zorab could not save him, and he was determined to find food for his eight children, so he waited with others to rush to the site.
There was no check-in system or effective entrance, he said. The crowds were instead kept at bay by the gunfire. “There is no gate, but from 2am to 5am there is constant shooting. The shooting is the gate.”
Inside the distribution centres, boxes of cans and oil on the sandy floor were ripped open and people took what they could. Foreign mercenaries laughed as they observed the scene, according to two witnesses. Palestinian contractors in fluorescent vests looked on.
GHF did not respond to a request for comment, but has previously said the shooting occurred outside its distribution sites.
Ashraf Abu Shbaker, a father of six, went to the site three times: Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. But every time he reached the site, everything was already taken.
He tried to ask one of the security contractors on Tuesday why there was nothing left. He said the contractor pepper sprayed him in the face. Three other witnesses, including one who was sprayed himself, said the contractors used spray and sound grenades within the site.
“Today, I didn’t want to go. I’m tired,” Abu Shbaker said. “If you want to starve people, go ahead, but don’t debase us like this.”
Abed Zaydan scoured hospitals hoping to find his wounded mother, imagining her face alive and in an ICU bed. He was at Nasser hospital when a paramedic arrived with three unidentified dead women. Zaydan knew one of them.
“This isn’t aid,” Zaydan said. “It’s a mouse trap.”
Additional reporting by James Shotter in Jerusalem
Lin Latt Shwe, 6, was detained along with her mother and other suspects in the killing of a retired general in Yangon.
Security forces in Myanmar have arrested a six-year-old girl, along with 15 other people suspected of involvement in the assassination of a retired army officer last month, state-run media report.
The 16 suspects – 13 males and three females – were arrested in four different regions of the country late last month, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar said on Friday.
Those arrested include Lin Latt Shwe, the six-year-old daughter of the alleged assassin, Myo Ko Ko, who was reported to have at least three other aliases. The newspaper report said the child and her parents were arrested in the central city of Bagan.
A little-known armed group calling itself the Golden Valley Warriors claimed responsibility for killing retired Brigadier General Cho Tun Aung, 68, who was shot outside his home in Yangon, the country’s commercial capital, on May 22.
Other detainees include the owner of a private hospital, which is alleged to have provided treatment to the assassin, who, according to the newspaper report, suffered a gunshot wound during the attack.
Independent news outlet The Irrawaddy said the Golden Valley Warriors have denied that the 16 people detained were part of their operation.
The junta has arrested 16 people including a 6-year-old girl on suspicion of involvement in the assassination of retired Brig-Gen Cho Tun Aung in Yangon on May 22. Golden Valley Warriors claimed responsibility and said the 16 are not related to them. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar pic.twitter.com/dtTCEJ1bF0
— The Irrawaddy (Eng) (@IrrawaddyNews) June 6, 2025
The killing of Cho Tun Aung, who was a former ambassador to Cambodia, is the latest attack against figures linked to the ruling military who launched a takeover of the country in 2021 after deposing the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.
Since the coup and the outbreak of the civil war in Myanmar, targeted assassinations have been carried out against high-ranking active and retired military officers, as well as senior civil servants, local officials, business associates of the ruling generals and suspected informers.
Soon after carrying out the assassination, the Golden Valley Warriors said in a statement posted on Facebook that Cho Tun Aung had been teaching internal security and counterterrorism at Myanmar’s National Defence College and was, by his actions, complicit in atrocities committed by the military in the ongoing civil war.
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