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Anatomical Drawings | Leonardo da Vinci [1452—1519]

Psionex

Psionex are a fictional team of supervillains and occasional anti-heroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Psionex are a group of artificially created superhumans who appeared as enemies of the New Warriors. The members are young people (assumed late teens to early twenties) altered by genetic, chemical, or biosurgical means by Harmon Furmintz of the Genetech Corporation to gain superpowers. They first battle the team of similarly aged heroes known as the New Warriors early in the latter team's career, but are soundly defeated and restrained.

Member(s)

Mathemanic

Pretty Persuasions

Coronary

Impulse

“They were bred for one purpose”

Here comes trouble, aka Psionex.

Then cue up the New Warriors theme song.

Fried Fat

If a kid with cancer survives, their health worries are sadly not over. Later in life, they're at increased risk of developing not only other cancers, but also cardiovascular conditions such as diabetes and coronary heart disease. But why might childhood cancer affect cardiovascular health in adulthood? Recent research suggests the radiation used to zap the cancer might damage the patient’s fatty tissues, screwing up its metabolic functions. Indeed, patients who received radiotherapy as kids often grow up with inflamed and dysfunctional fat tissue akin to that of people with obesity or cardiometabolic disease. The fatty tissue pictured, for example, is infiltrated with inflammatory macrophages (purple). While a direct link between radiotherapy and metabolic disorders has yet to be established, the results suggest that protecting a child’s fatty tissues while their tumours are blasted with radiation may reduce the chance of damage and thus of future cardiovascular problems.

Written by Ruth Williams

Image from the Laboratory of Molecular Metabolism at The Rockefeller University

Laboratory of Molecular Metabolism, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA

Image copyright held by the original authors

Research published in JCI Insight, September 2021

Tell me your stories Superboy.

"From the moment I first opened my eyes in that Cadmus pod, There's been one more thing that I've wanted and feared. To know what is to be Superman."