Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

Because blockchain technology has uses beyond crypto:

"Implementing Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) data solutions can be challenging. Semi-automated decentralised data sharing tools could support reserchers in making their data FAIR. Here the authors explore one possible solution."

https://network.febs.org/posts/a-revolution-of-data-in-the-life-sciences

The little door behind al this art is my new office in Lapa.
Here's hoping some of the creativity rubs off...

@colehaddon There was a good article about her in the New Yorker a couple of years ago

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/05/a-fuller-picture-of-artemisia-gentileschi

"Biotechnology has quietly become America’s newest national security concern. From Congress to the intelligence agencies, Washington’s leaders have concluded that control over biotechnologies will be critical not only to the country’s health, but to national security as well."

https://www.ft.com/content/cb9cd845-e9b0-4243-97f3-c315dac11fb4

'Altogether, our study identifies an unappreciated site of Yersinia colonization within the murine intestinal mucosa, and reveals an essential function for inflammatory monocytes in maintainance of pyogranuloma architecture during Yp infection.'
fm @BrodskyLab et al

#InfetionImmunity #Plague #Yersinia #Immunology #InnateImmunity

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01338-6

'One problem is that many schoolteachers have no science background, but that will change when science becomes a compulsory subject in the teacher training bachelor’s course, starting in the 2024–5 academic year.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00628-7

'The market, let alone public taste, had yet to catch up. ‘If this is art, then I’m a horse’s ass,’ said Fiorello La Guardia, the mayor of New York City, when Arshile Gorky’s murals were unveiled at Newark Airport in 1937.'

https://literaryreview.co.uk/drippers-printmakers

Exploratory Grants for Climate Change and Health Research Center Development (P20 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-ES-23-007
Available Due Dates: May 01, 2023; November 07, 2023
Expiration Date: Nov 8, 2023

https://www.nih.gov/climateandhealth#funding-opportunities

It's a very good question:

"But Recovery’s incredible success should prompt us to ask a more challenging question: why don’t we do this more often? The question of which drugs to use was far from the only unknown we had to navigate in the early days of the pandemic. Consider the decision to delay second doses of the vaccine, when to close schools, or the right regime for Covid testing. In each case, the UK took a calculated risk and hoped for the best. But as the Royal Statistical Society pointed out at the time, it would have been cheap and quick to undertake trials so we could know for sure what the right choice was, and then double down on it."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/06/the-big-idea-should-governments-run-more-experiments

'But she warned: “One of the biggest and most realistic risks is that the people who could benefit most won’t be able to access or afford them.” Doudna and the other experts who talked to the Guardian are on the summit’s organising committee but shared their thoughts in a personal capacity.'

#GeneTherapy #CRISPR

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/06/forthcoming-genetic-therapies-serious-ethical-questions-experts