Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

How do placebos ease pain? Mouse brain study offers clues: The discovery of a brain circuit involved in the pain-relieving effect of placebos could lead to new treatments. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02439-w

'In many European capitals, the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment is more than the median income of a young person. In 2023, houses in the UK were more expensive than they’d been since 1876. In the United States, home prices are up 60 percent over the last decade.'

https://jacobin.com/2024/07/housing-crisis-homelessness-financialization/

'A new drug described as “the closest we have ever been to an HIV vaccine” could cost $40 (£31) a year for every patient, a thousand times less than its current price, new research suggests.

Lenacapavir , sold as Sunlenca by US pharmaceutical giant Gilead, currently costs $42,250 for the first year. The company is being urged to make it available at a thousand times less than that price worldwide.'

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jul/23/hiv-aids-prevention-vaccine-lenacapavir-sunlenca-pharmaceuticals-gilead-generic-licensing

Colorado, which has been badly hit by #H5N1 #birdflu in dairy cows & poultry, orders dairy farms to submit weekly bulk tank samples for testing.
Will other jurisdictions follow suit? Can't stop transmission if you don't know where the virus is. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17KS5LLEG-Dir1s9fpGVL8Mnp62ACCz2a/view

Discovery of different forms of insomnia could lead to better treatment https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/22/discovery-different-forms-insomnia-could-better-treatment #Health&wellbeing #Medicalresearch #Worldnews #Science #Society #Health #Sleep

#USPol #Election2024

Postdoc Position in Fibroblast Biology

UT Southwestern Medical Center

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/ut-southwestern-medical-center-27778-postdoc-position-in-fibroblast-biology/?feed_id=78693

#cancer #cancer_biology #cancer_associated_fibroblast #fibroblast #postdoc #tumor_immunology #tumor_microenvironment #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/ut-southwestern-medical-center-27778-postdoc-position-in-fibroblast-biology/?feed_id=78693

Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
Sharks off Brazil: "I absolutely fucking love this guy he's my best mate holy shit look at that boat that's so ffffucking cool woooooo"

https://news.sky.com/story/sharks-off-brazil-coast-test-positive-for-cocaine-13183543

Microsoft now blaming the EU for the crowdstrike issue, because the EU made them open their APIs to third party developers in 2009 is hilarious.

If your APIs had any kind of gracious error handling, this wouldn’t be an issue. Fix your bad code, Microsoft, stop pointing fingers.

The Donald gets scared.

Very sad news about David Ish-Horowicz

#drosophila #DevBio

https://www.crick.ac.uk/news/2024-07-22_david-ish-horowicz-frs-1948-2024

‘Maybe I lived a naive life’: New Orleans archbishop denies knowledge of widespread child sex abuse in 1970s https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/22/new-orleans-archbishop-gregory-aymond-child-sex-abuse-ignorance?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon - via @guardian