“Nós fizemos uma greve de quatro dias no sentido de que alguém nos oiça e até agora não tem havido qualquer reacção por parte do ministro das Infraestruturas [João Galamba] e das Finanças [Fernando Medina]. Não houve até à data e vamos no quarto dia de greve. Não se percebe como é que não há um pequeno esforço das tutelas para chegar a um acordo”, disse.'
"To engineer durable vaccines, we must first define the rules and features of durable protection. These rules may differ for each virus, platform and between prime and boost responses."
'By investigating acid-sensing ion channel gene expression in each of the three major bilaterian lineages, we see that ASICs are principally found: centrally, in the brain; and/or peripherally, in the digestive system, peripheral nerve rings, and/or scattered peripheral cells.'
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Very recent @genomeresearch functional genomics study of ERV enhancers in human trophoblast cells reveals new TF/ERV binding combinations (beyond e.g. STAT1/MER41) that appear to regulate genes essential to placenta development.
https://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2023/02/17/gr.277150.122.full.pdf+html
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Delighted to start recruiting postdoctoral RA positions for my new CRUK Programme!! Please reach out if you are interested! #postdocposition @CamBiochem
"The Origami Maps (Dresden, 1914-1918)
These maps, or objects, represent the sole known instance of an attempt at creativity by the Margrave. Like so many Europeans of his generation, von Willebrand was enthralled by Japanese art, and he developed a particular fascination with origami – a set of techniques with ancestral origins in Japan whose basic principles influenced the “folds of truth, folds of life and folds of beauty” ideas of German pedagogue Friedrich Fröbel.
Tragically, von Willebrand brought his newfound creativity to bear on the problems of cryptography – the Margrave was ever mindful of his duty to the Fatherland. von Willebrand’s work on the tactical applications of origami in the battlefield somehow managed to pique the interest of the Kaiser’s father, Frederick III, during his brief 99-day reign. When Frederick died, his relationship with the Margrave ultimately led his son Kaiser Wilhelm II to authorize a field test of the origami system during the Third Battle of Ypres. As a result, an entire German reconnaissance platoon was picked off one by one by a perplexed British sniper as they tried to fold paper while wearing full anti-gas gear." https://madalenaparreira.com/SPAM #maps #print #origami #origamiart #printmaking #handmade
An analysis of #LongCovid cases among cancer patients at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
#covid19 #covid
Happy to report our paper on the role of Drosophila AMPs in aging is now accepted in Disease Models and Mechanisms (DMM, from @Co_Biologists)! 🥳
We first submitted to @ReviewCommons, which received mixed reviews. We took those reviews to DMM, admittedly disagreeing with some comments. Ultimately, we came to an understanding with both the reviewers and editor, but it was nice to know if things hadn't worked out, we could take our reviewed manuscript to another journal 🙂
@cyrilpedia interesting. reminds me of thomas kuhn’s description of “paradigm shifts” in science
@colehaddon It's a breeze to read - perhaps with one of these in hand
@colehaddon Tucci's food memoir, Taste, is a lovely book (with some great recipes)
As part of our ongoing SARS-CoV2 Receptor Binding Domain series, below is a 3D print of the SARS-CoV1 RBD. This model was used to compare against SARS-Cov2, RATG13, and the Pangolin Virus receptor binding domains for insights about subsequent mutations.
https://biologicmodels.com/pdb/5x58/sars-cov1-spike-glycoprotein-5x58/
Haruki Murakami on originality in art & literature (from "Novelist as a Vocation".
#books #writers #bookshelf #literature
RT @ancientstristan
New Ancients Ep!
Professor Fred Spoor from @NHM_London joins us to talk about the origins of our lineage, the genus homo, taking us back 2-3 million years to Africa and explaining why there is so much debate and uncertainty! Loved recording this!
🎙️ https://podfollow.com/the-ancients/episode/a82560233a772e57ed6b936a225cd9d5e1467616/view
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Really excited for this! Come and join us for an amazing speaker line-up !🙂🤩 https://twitter.com/IMBA_Vienna/status/1630883349756628993
With a beautiful view of the Canals
'Yet it is still early days for AI drug discovery. There are a lot of AI companies making claims they can’t back up, says Prakash: “If somebody tells you they can perfectly predict which drug molecule can get through the gut or not get broken up by the liver, things like that, they probably also have land to sell you on Mars.”
'But the most productive plasma centres are clustered along the southern border, where Mexican citizens cross over to sell plasma in the US. “Our political leaders like Trump don’t want them in the United States but we have been allowing people to cross over to mine their bodies for blood plasma, so what does that say about us?”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/02/blood-money-book-kathleen-mclaughlin
“Es una radiografía de la impotencia y de la falta de voluntad. Unos obispos que cooperan, otros que no, la Iglesia parece que sí quiere, pero no quiere, creo que es todo una gran mentira. Desde el primer momento esta auditoría me pareció una pamema."
“The critical technology tracker shows that, for some technologies, all of the world’s top 10 leading research institutions are based in China and are collectively generating nine times more high-impact research papers than the second-ranked country (most often the US).”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/02/china-leading-us-in-technology-race-in-all-but-a-few-fields-thinktank-finds
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com