Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

US may phase out the first generation of Covid19 vaccines:

"An expert committee advising the Food and Drug Administration recommended on Thursday that regulators phase out the original versions of the Covid-19 vaccines, allowing Americans getting their first shots to receive the updated formulations now used as boosters."

#COVID #COVID19 #vaccine #PublicHealth

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/health/covid-vaccines-boosters.html

"Enter the nocturnal Pentalagus furnessi, or Amami rabbit, the world’s only dark-furred wild bunny. In a study published this week in the journal Ecology, Dr. Suetsugu and Hiromu Hashiwaki, a co-author also of Kobe University, posit an evolutionary bargain between Amami rabbits and B. yuwanensis. The root-sucking plants give food in exchange for seed dispersal services — something that has never been documented between a mammal and a parasitic plant."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/science/rabbit-parasite-plant-islands.html

From Michael Bishop's 1982 Lasker acceptance speech:

'On an early morning in 1925, Robin Fahraeus became the first person to witness a biological molecule sediment in a gravitational field. You might find this an abstruse event, but Fahraeus felt otherwise. He roused his colleague, The Svedberg, from sleep with a phone call and a memorable message: “The, I have seen a dawn.”'

https://laskerfoundation.org/winners/1983-albert-lasker-basic-medical-research-award/#_

@MeanwhileinCanada cc @ChristenMirth

@hasmis @gpollara @eLife @ImmunityCP

In a most delightful way

@gpollara An interesting aspect of this was discussed by the senior author of this @eLife paper, Russell Vance, who co-authored a perspective piece in @ImmunityCP in 2014 about "The Macrophage Paradox", essentially why do so many pathogens find it so cozy inside the cell type that's supposed to eat them.

https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(14)00391-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS1074761314003914%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

"Our findings underscore the importance of cell death in defense against intracellular bacterial pathogens and provide an example of how layered and hierarchical immune pathways can provide robust defense against pathogens that have evolved a broad arsenal of virulence factors."

#Shigella #HostPathogen #CellDeath #Apoptosis #InnateImmunity #Pathogen #Microbiology #Immunology

https://elifesciences.org/articles/83639

The transmogrification of 'endemic' into 'benign' has been the crowning semantic achievement of the pandemic.

"Meanwhile, the White House’s id—the pundit class—keeps providing cover fire, declaring the pandemic’s toll overstated, or, in the latest twist from the University of California–San Francisco’s Monica Gandhi, offering a “scientific” rationale for doing less (i.e., stop testing, stop masking) by using “endemic” as a talisman to justify throwing our hands up in the air."
@gregggonsalves

#Newspeak #PublicHealth #COVID19 #COVID

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/orwellian-white-house-covid-policy/