Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

'For the first time, we are now starting to build a picture of how this resistance is affecting people’s care. The Lancet recently published new research from the Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (Gram) Project, which revealed deaths directly attributable to bacterial AMR are continuing to rise. This might be a surprise to some, as we would expect the incredible progress we’ve made in reducing infection over recent decades to limit deaths from AMR. Nevertheless, the new analysis using records dating back to 1990 found that over a million lives have been lost to AMR every year, adding up to more than 36 million – and these numbers are on the rise.'

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/sep/24/the-world-is-facing-an-antibiotic-emergency-a-data-led-plan-of-action-is-needed-now

'Para surpresa de muitos, a Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL) planeia fechar o Departamento de História e Filosofia das Ciências – o único do nosso país. Se a decisão for para a frente, será lamentável não só para a FCUL mas para o país inteiro.'

https://expresso.pt/opiniao/2024-09-24-oppenheimer-e-a-historia-da-ciencia-em-portugal-90943179

'This week Tisile will support fellow activists lobbying a high-level UN meeting on tackling drug resistance, a global scourge that is alarming health experts, governments and the private sector. TB is central to this potentially catastrophic pharmaceutical failure, which means tackling it is crucial to averting what has been branded a “silent pandemic”.
#Tuberculosis #PublicHealth

https://www.ft.com/content/00d5e030-894b-443b-b3ac-375dd530273d

'Ms. Meloni had chosen Mr. Musk to introduce her as she received a Global Citizen Award from the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank that cited “her political and economic leadership of Italy, in the European Union” and of the Group of 7 nations “as well as her support of Ukraine in Russia’s war against it.”'

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/business/elon-musk-giorgia-meloni.html

"Here, we present a chromosome-level assembly of the 6.45 Gb Greenland shark, rendering it one of the largest non-tetrapod genomes sequenced so far. Expansion of the genome is mostly accounted for by a substantial expansion of transposable elements. Using public shark genomes as a comparison, we found that genes specifically duplicated in the Greenland shark form a functionally connected network enriched for DNA repair function."
#Preprint
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.09.611499v1

"The shark’s remarkable longevity first came to light in 2016, when a landmark study published in Science used radiocarbon dating methods and modeling techniques to estimate the ages of 28 Greenland sharks.
The researchers found that the oldest sharks could live for about 400 years and reached sexual maturity around age 150."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/science/greenland-sharks-genetics.html

'Novo Nordisk’s chief executive is preparing for a showdown next week with progressive firebrand Bernie Sanders over the high price of blockbuster diabetes and weight loss drugs, as Ozempic falls into the scope of US government price controls.'

https://www.ft.com/content/0bb0a4f8-ca72-4bc2-9d87-2dfff3567995

"Em primeiro lugar, dos cerca de 3000 investigadores actualmente com contratos precários, 1600 ficarão desempregados no próximo ano e meio. É possível que uma parte destes investigadores venha a ser abrangida pelas 1100 vagas agora anunciadas pelo programa FCT-Tenure, mas é impossível saber quantos, uma vez que estas vagas serão preenchidas através de concursos internacionais. Além disso, a FCT anunciou que “os concursos CEEC Individuais se focarão nos investigadores doutorados em início de carreira” e serão limitados a três anos."

https://www.publico.pt/2024/09/23/ciencia/opiniao/novo-modelo-financiamento-investigadores-regresso-passado-2104636