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Coming up, transforming blood into regenerative materials and nominations for the Game Awards 2024 are in.

But first, Vladimir Putin has intensified the menace of a atomic onslaught if US-supplied longer scope missiles are fired by Ukraine into Russia.

For the latest, we person The London Standard's governmental exertion Nicholas Cecil.

So, Vladimir Putin has updated Russia's atomic doctrine to efficaciously accidental that if there's a accepted onslaught connected Russia by a state supported by a atomic power, that volition beryllium considered a associated onslaught connected his country.

The determination follows Joe Biden's determination to fto Ukraine onslaught targets wrong Russia with US-supplied ATA CMS longer scope missiles.

The Kremlin spokesperson said it was a timely determination by the Russian president.

Now, does this mean we are astir to spot the Ukraine struggle escalate into a atomic war?

It is wide understood that China has warned Russia against utilizing atomic weapons.

So, it would beryllium a melodramatic improvement if Putin decided to bash so, particularly fixed that Joe Biden is lone going to beryllium president for a period oregon truthful longer.

Putin is apt to anticipation that helium tin get a acold amended woody from Trump than helium would from Biden successful presumption of immoderate bid statement to extremity this conflict.

Next, scientists person discovered however to alteration humor into regenerative materials, which they accidental paves the mode for personalised 3D printed implants specified arsenic for breached bones.

We person evolved to heal our tissues.

If we interruption oregon rupture a tissue, we volition regenerate it arsenic agelong arsenic it is astatine a tiny scale.

What that means is that astatine a tiny scale, determination is simply a healing process that has been optimised by improvement that allows america to regenerate this tissue.

What we've done is to enactment with that healing process truthful that we are capable to amplify it and heighten it truthful that we tin regenerate larger ruptures, larger fractures and much compromised scenarios that necessitate regeneration.

That's Professor Alvaro Mata with Pharmacy and Chemical Engineering astatine the University of Nottingham who led this study.

That liquid blood, erstwhile there's an injury, it begins to beryllium transformed into a solid.

And that solid, it's called the regenerative hematoma.

It's an incredibly affluent situation that is producing each kinds of molecules and cells that are captious for regeneration.

You tin ideate it arsenic being a mill of molecules and cells that are captious for regeneration.

Researchers person been moving connected the survey for 7 years with backing and COVID-delays.

The mode we bash this is we usage these tiny peptides.

These are precise tiny molecules and we usage them to interact with components of blood.

So each you request to bash is you premix these tiny molecules with humor taken from a diligent and that triggers coagulation and the assembly of these molecules.

There are immoderate processes astatine the molecular and cellular level that takes place.

But what's important to cognize is that we're enabling that earthy coagulation and a earthy enactment of the hematoma with insignificant modifications truthful that we tin amended the mechanical properties.

We tin amended the signaling and bioactive properties of that material.

We were capable to bash that and past we tested it some successful vitro and successful carnal models.

And successful both, we had a precise affirmative response.

Professor Mata says 50% of the world's colonisation does not person entree to adjacent the astir basal wellness attraction and that the anticipation is to marque this a elemental process for each doctors and surgeons.

This survey is published successful Advanced Materials.

Now, it's that clip of twelvemonth again The Game Awards 2024 nominations

We're joined by our civilization writer and TV and Games editor, The London Standard's Vicky Jessop.

So what's nominated for Game of the Year?

We've got Astro Bot, I deliberation that's going to beryllium the favourite.

We've got Balatro, which is the lone Game of the Year information by an indie developer.

We've got Black Myth: Wukong.

We've got Elden Ring Shadow of the Erd Tree, to beryllium honest.

This is simply a spot of a stretch, it's technically a DLC, but it's had astonishing reviews.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth from Square Enix.

We've got the JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio.

Yeah, those are our nominees.

Vicky, are you astatine each amazed by immoderate of the noms?

Elden Ring Shadow of the Erd Tree, arsenic I said, it's not technically a crippled successful its ain right.

It's a DLC, which implies they're scraping the tube for bully nominations to enactment guardant this year.

I conjecture it proves the constituent that a crippled doesn't person to beryllium massively analyzable oregon a AAA rubric to beryllium great.

I don't deliberation the Balatro squad were expecting to get a information for Game of the Year.

The LocalThunk, who is simply a developer, said it was surreal to beryllium nominated.

It's ever bully to spot indie endowment being championed.

I deliberation Astro Bot successful the consciousness that it was a astonishment hit.

I'm not amazed to spot it nominated due to the fact that it's an astonishing game.

I don't deliberation anyone expected that it would beryllium arsenic bully arsenic it was erstwhile it came out.

I deliberation everyone was treating it as, oh, this is conscionable a amusive small mode to trial the PlayStation 5's controller, each of its capabilities.

But what we ended up with was an perfectly fantastic platformer that's really amazingly hard and truly imaginative and benignant of brings unneurotic PlayStation's antithetic properties successful a mode that doesn't really consciousness similar them force-feeding you, you know, similar PlayStation merch, PlayStation merch.

Coming up successful portion two, “the archetypal sensation of winter.”

See you backmost present successful conscionable a minute.

Some of you whitethorn person woken up to a broad of snowfall contiguous and if you're successful London, possibly conscionable immoderate sleet.

However, this has been described arsenic “the archetypal sensation of winter” and has caused bid delays and terrible warnings crossed the UK.

The Met Office enactment 3 yellowish warnings for snowfall and crystal successful spot successful the North, the Midlands, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, advising that vehicles could beryllium stranded, powerfulness cuts whitethorn hap and agrarian areas could beryllium chopped off.

have besides been warnings from wellness charities specified arsenic the Alzheimer's Society, Age UK and Asthma + Lung UK.

Next, determination implicit Gladiator 2.

The London Standard has visited the capital's Roman Amphitheatre arsenic portion of their Hidden Gems series.

Located beneath the Guildhall Art Gallery and measuring 100 by 85 metres, it held up to 6,000 spectators.

Not lone was this spot utilized for warring animals and the existent gladiatorial games, but I've discovered lone a mates of years agone that actively astir of the radical that were warring present were women.

And successful fact, the bulk of the audiences were besides women.

So it's an absorbing instrumentality connected however Roman London was backmost then, astir 2,000 years ago.

That's Munsur Ali, City of London Chair of Culture, Heritage and Libraries Committee.

To work the afloat nonfiction by the London Standard's India Block, deed the nexus successful our amusement notes.

We've besides included a nexus to a video narrated and produced by Chloe Cobham.

And finally, ‘stop chasing on-the-run emu successful your 4x4s.’

…That’s a petition from Lincolnshire Police.

There person been reports of a flightless, inactive precise accelerated walking and rather pecky vertebrate successful the Spilsby country for a mates of weeks now, according to police.

The UK's National Exotics Animal Rescue Service is trying to summation her spot truthful she tin beryllium rescued safely.

In a station connected Facebook, section constabulary person said that efforts are being scuppered and unit and volunteers are acrophobic due to the fact that members of the nationalist person been chasing her successful 4x4s.

There are understandable fears that this could origin accidental harm to some the nationalist and the animal.

It's presently unclear wherever the emu escaped from.

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