Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

“Postpartum psychosis has been around for thousands of years, and yet it is not an official disease category in the DSM-5,” Veerle Bergink, the director of the Women’s Mental Health Program at Mount Sinai, told me. “There is no money for it, not for research, not for treatment. There are no guidelines. This is one of the most severe conditions in psychiatry, one that has huge impacts on the mother and potentially on the child, and there’s nothing.”

https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-medicine/what-we-still-dont-understand-about-postpartum-psychosis

"Banks fail. When they do, those who stand to lose scream for a state rescue. If the threatened costs are big enough, they will succeed. This is how, crisis by crisis, we have created a banking sector that is in theory private, but in practice a ward of the state."

https://www.ft.com/content/09bfbb8d-22f5-4c70-9d85-2df7ed5c516e

'While The Times praised him as “one of the nation’s outstanding chemists” in its obituary, today Midgley is best known for the terrible consequences of that chemistry, thanks to the stretch of his career from 1922 to 1928, during which he managed to invent leaded gasoline and also develop the first commercial use of the chlorofluorocarbons that would create a hole in the ozone layer.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/15/magazine/cfcs-inventor.html

"We used a single-cell approach to retrieve the phenotype and TCR sequence of infected cells in blood and lymphoid tissue from individuals at the earliest stages of HIV infection. HIV initially targeted a few proliferating memory CD4+ T cells displaying high surface expression of CCR5."
Gantner et al @ImmunityCP

#Immunology #Virology #hiv

https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(23)00042-0?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

'What’s unusual about the COVID-19 pandemic is not so much that there have been conspiracy theories and rejection of conventional science by the nonscientist public (both of which have been traveling companions of the scientific enterprise since its beginnings); rather, what makes this “infodemic” distinctive is that it’s the first during which the public has had direct access to much of the science itself.'

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2302593120

"He snapped a photo of a drawing he’d made in a notebook — a crude pencil sketch of a website. He fed the photo into GPT-4 and told the app to build a real, working version of the website using HTML and JavaScript. In a few seconds, GPT-4 scanned the image, turned its contents into text instructions, turned those text instructions into working computer code and then built the website. The buttons even worked."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/15/technology/gpt-4-artificial-intelligence-openai.html

Great cover

"On the cover: A radial glial progenitor cell stands, sculpted out of cherry wood by Louis-Jan Pilaz."

https://www.cell.com/issue/S0896-6273(22)X0007-X

'However, the mechanisms that maintain choriodecidual immune homeostasis or compromise immune barrier functions remain unclear. To understand these processes, a two-chamber microphysiological system (MPS) was created to model the human choriodecidual immune interface under normal and infectious conditions in vitro.'

https://journals.aai.org/jimmunol/article-abstract/doi/10.4049/jimmunol.2200821/263531/A-Microphysiological-Device-to-Model-the?redirectedFrom=fulltext

The latest episode of the #EMBOPodcast is out, I discuss #OpenAccess, #OpenScience and the danger of amplifying existing inequities with Bernd Pulverer & Thomas Lemberger from @EMBOPress and Alicia Kowaltowski from the University of São Paulo.

🎧 👇

https://www.embo.org/podcasts/a-steppingstone-to-an-open-science-future-embo-press-moves-to-full-open-access/

Multiculturalism in London