Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

Was Grail a good bet for Illumina?

"Grail, which counted Jeff Bezos and Gates among its early backers, has developed one of the world’s first early detection blood tests. The test, which it named Galleri, aims to detect up to 50 different types of cancer, including many that are not part of national screening programmes. It is currently being tested in trials, including a UK National Health Service study involving 140,000 people.”

https://www.ft.com/content/f1be9261-f473-462d-bd03-dd97b8615208

'Today she’s frustrated that efforts to restrain tech companies are so fragmented. “We have fantastic scholars, researchers, advocates who are focused on privacy, others who are focused on disinformation, others who are focused on the nexus with democracy,” she says, when we meet in London. This “Balkanisation” reduces the ability to pinpoint the “actual source of harm”: people’s data is treated as a costless resource, just as forests and other parts of nature were in centuries past.'

https://www.ft.com/content/0cca6054-6fc9-4a94-b2e2-890c50d956d5

"Other researchers are developing techniques that emulate nanopore-based DNA sequencing, profiling polypeptides on the basis of the changes they induce in an electric current as they pass through tiny channels."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00178-y?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_content=organic&utm_campaign=CONR_JRNLS_AWA1_GL_SCON_SMEDA_NATUREPORTFOLIO

“Policy in the absence of monitoring is not effective,” Kelly Cobey, Ph.D., director of the Open Science and Meta Research program at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and first author of the study, said in a press release. “We have reached an agreement on how to design a digital dashboard to track open science practices to determine if we are doing a good job implementing them or not.”

#OpenScience #OpenAccess #sciencepolicy

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/institutions-establish-guidelines-track-progress-open-science-initiatives

AMNH New York

@PietroGhezzi @gpollara That's a great point, and it would certainly not be surprising to see this in those with very high titers of anti-ifn abs. This is also what Casanova et al have observed in many severe covid patients.

"The establishment was rather anonymous, one of the many restaurants dotting the capital, and that’s how it would have stayed had it not been for the arrival of Armando, Alfredo’s eldest son. This was in 1908. After giving birth, the mother, Ines, was so weak that Alfredo strove to come up with a food that would be nourishing yet easy to digest, to help get his wife back on her feet."

https://lithub.com/the-invention-of-fettuccine-alfredo-a-love-story/

"A recent study showed that cells from individuals with Down syndrome had defects in forming primary cilia – structures on the surface of cells which work as signaling hubs to control how cells grow and develop. These cilia defects were in large part due to excess levels of a protein known as Pericentrin, which is encoded by a gene found on chromosome 21."

https://elifesciences.org/digests/78202/the-cell-biology-of-down-syndrome?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic