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Colares, near Sintra, has very special wines - the vines grow on the beach.
This one was delicious.

"It's important to remember that the 'drugs' aren't just the pills we stash in our medicine cabinets. Ask yourself this: is it really acceptable that we only bothered to test sex differences for general anesthesia in 1999? Turns out women wake up faster than men, regardless of their age, weight or the dosage they've been given."

From Cat Bohannon's highly recommended book Eve.

From the bad place (come on @miguelgf ...), Miguel Godinho & Claudio Sunkel.

Until I worked on this piece, I had no idea how out of control blood pressure still is for most people. Estimates are that only one fifth of those with high blood pressure manage it effectively. New RNA drugs that may only require dosing two to four times a year could really help, but at what cost? My latest Clinical Pipeline column.

nature.com/articles/d41591-023

"This series of prints was created between 2017 & 2021.It consists of several aquatints of stages, doors, caves or forests, where figures have been inserted through the technique of chine-collé, and colours added through viscosity printing. "

madalenaparreira.com/Aquatints

Spotted in Chiado, a genre I was not familiar with: the protest azulejo.

'The long-term persistence of a virus depends on the continual availability of newly susceptible individuals through either birth or the loss of immunity that was originally conferred through prior infection or vaccination. Loss of immunity can result from limited host immune memory or from alterations to the viral genome, often referred to as immune or vaccine ‘escape’ mutations. Thadani and colleagues’ focus is on viral mutations that destabilize the binding of ‘neutralizing’ antibodies to the virus (Fig. 1); however, other modes of immune evasion are possible'

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

‘Wales, though. It’s not a huge place.’
‘It’s exactly the size it is, isn’t it?’ Shirely said. ‘Reports are always saying something’s “an area the size of Wales”. And that’s exactly the size Wales is.’
This was met with a short silence.
- Joe Country, Mick Herron.

"Miniature etchings

This series of etchings are inspired by the works of Hercules Seghers, Rembrandt and Bruegel the Younger. Some are also loosely inspired by Dutch landscape paintings from the 17th century. The prints are very small, some are roughly the size of a stamp, and are at times watercoloured."

madalenaparreira.com/miniature

I agree, Metz - but I think we're going to need a bigger sticker.

'An aerial view shows a man riding a motorcycle in an empty section of Tefe Lake, which was affected by the drought of the Solimoes river, during a monitoring flight of Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, near Tefe, Amazonas state, Brazil, on October 4, 2023.'

Bruno Kelly/Reuters

theatlantic.com/photo/2023/10/

Gene therapy targeting regulatory elements to promote fetal hemoglobin expression in sickle cell disease.
My latest Clinical Pipeline column at Nature Medicine

nature.com/articles/d41591-023

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