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@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.

On this day in 1853: Shibasaburo Kitasato born, discovered bacteria linked to bubonic plague, developed serum therapy for diphtheria #ThisDayinBiotech

RT @Tuliodna@twitter.com

Deadline of a few days for PostDoc Fellowships to work with us.

Deadline: 31 Jan 23

Six positions to help to solve some of the biggest global challenges, from epidemics, pandemics & effect of climate change on diseases.

climade.health/news/

Sorry to get political but schools should probably have books

"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."

lithub.com/the-invention-of-fe

"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."

elifesciences.org/digests/7820

@NicoleCRust @CoriBargmann @cyrilpedia

Listening this pod recalled this funny birdsite RT by @WiringtheBrain of #scicomm decades progression of covers maximally hyping genetics discoveries:
nitter.net/WiringTheBrain/stat

'Immune response to the vaccine mRNA is the most literal example of “killing the messenger” that I can think of, short of the Spartan treatment of Darius’ envoys in 491 BC.'
cc @Caroline_Bartma
science.org/content/blog-post/

"The paper costume prints are mostly made from real costumes (with the exception of the long dress, which is a smaller scale model) , worn by actors in a film project and subsequently smashed, inked and printed on cotton paper."
Colograph by Madalena

madalenaparreira.com/Colograph

"The hope was that biosimilars would drastically drive down the cost of pricey brand-name biologics. That is what has happened in Europe. But it has not worked out that way in the United States."

nytimes.com/2023/01/28/busines

'El objetivo de Tapola, como el de decenas de miles de profesores en Finlandia, es que los alumnos desarrollen el pensamiento crítico y la capacidad de verificar datos. La “alfabetización mediática” para contrarrestar la desinformación es una parte esencial del currículo escolar finlandés desde 2014, año de la anexión rusa de Crimea y del inicio de los combates en el este de Ucrania.'

elpais.com/internacional/2023-

Three of those four #lymphoma patients achieved a complete response with out-of-commercial specification (OOS) CAR T therapy

Risk factors for OOS were ≥ 4 prior therapies or previous bendamustine exposure.

#MEDMASTODON #Cancer
#ClinicalResearch #Oncology #Medicine #lymsm @majorajay

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/361116

“No matter what your story is, there is a place for you in science.”

New study finds that an intervention featuring personal and professional stories of diverse scientists increases students’ ability to relate to scientists, especially among first-generation college students and students who identify as female.

Open access: lifescied.org/doi/full/10.1187

"This is an energetic approach for generations of Russian-speaking American Jews navigating a fraught historical identity, and also for artists and intellectuals who do not think immigrants owe America for their acculturation and citizenship, but rather that a complex, prosperous, artistic, and intellectual America is impossible without us."

Gary Shteyngart @nybooks

nybooks.com/articles/2023/02/0

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