'Overall, our study points to a role for prothrombotic autoantibodies in pediatric Cerebral #Malaria. Induction of autoantibodies, such anti-PF4/P, in a subset of patients with malaria may be one of multiple mechanisms that tilts a uncomplicated malaria case toward CM.'
'Art history is aware of Guston’s loftier influences — his mentor in West Coast Surrealism, Lorser Feitelson, or the Hollywood collectors of Duchamps and Brancusis, the Arensbergs — but these homegrown funny pages, with their collaborations and callbacks, were a laboratory for him and for budding artists of all predilections.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/arts/design/guston-cartoons-los-angeles-times-klan.html
Host immunity in phage therapy:
"Bacteriophage immune neutralization was observed between 6 and 35 days after initiation of BT in 5 of 13 (38.5%) screened patients (9, 13, 20, 66 and 92 in Table 2 and Fig. 4a–d). Bacteriophage immune neutralization always involved invasive (intravenous and/or intralesional) bacteriophage administrations. In 4 of these 5 cases (patients 9, 13, 20 and 92), clinical improvement and eradication of the targeted bacterial pathogen were nevertheless observed."
Fm Pirnay et al, Nat Microbiology 2024.
#Immunology #Phage #AntibioticResistance
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-024-01705-x?utm_campaign=related_content&utm_source=HEALTH&utm_medium=communities#Sec11
The Hunchback Aardvark goes to London
cc @madparreira.bsky.social
#ceramics #pottery #art #artgallery #handmade #artmastodon #ceramic #stoneware
Blue bird by Hunchback Society
'In this review, we provide a conceptual framework of how different organelles are actively positioned in diverse cell types and biological processes. In particular, we focus on our current understanding of the functions, principles, and molecular mechanisms of organelle positioning in both stationary and motile cells.'
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44319-024-00135-4
Thanks to Luis Graca, Lisa Hönicke, Jochen Huehn and the ENLIGHT-TEN+* ITN students for a very interesting couple of days discussing their projects and career development in our fellowship writing and CV workshops. The network involves institutions from 10 European countries, and you can learn more about ENLIGHT-TEN+ here:
http://www.enlight-ten.eu
To explore the training, educational, and editorial opportunities that David del Álamo and I offer through hashtag#Fellowsherpa, visit our webpage:
https://fellowsherpa.com
*European Network Linking Informatics and Genomics of Helper T cells in Tissues
An intense Career Day at Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR) - Vall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca, including a keynote lecture followed by #Fellowsherpa interview workshops for MSc students (me) and PhD students (David del Álamo).
Thanks to Ana M. Ribeiro and all her colleagues on the organising committee.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Meta-moment as Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia PhD program alumnus Ana M. Ribeiro, Ph.D. (now at Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR) - Vall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca) takes a picture of former classmate Ojas Deshpande, PhD (now at BarcelonaBeta Brain Research Centre ) presenting at VHIR's Career Day last week.
Our basement is now basically a workshop
@madparreira.bsky.social, Jorge Nesbitt & Ana Jotta.
'Owen dines at the Palaeontographical Society, accompanied by those prehistoric creatures whose fossil bones he knew so intimately. 19th-century lithograph by A. Orton after E. C. Rye'
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/richard-owen-and-victorian-literature/
Not a reference I expected to encounter in a Biennale piece!
"In so many ways, Venice seems like a city lost in time. And yet, as I stopped to watch the waterways again and again, I kept thinking about the claim made in the late 1980s by immunologist Jacques Benveniste that water holds memory."
https://www.ft.com/content/67e16b1f-1422-4589-acfa-dd9642fb95ff
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com