Wax Vanitas (c.1700) - intended to remind us of the certainty of death. One side features a skull with insects feasting on decaying flesh. The other side resembles Queen Elizabeth I. It reads: “vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
This object is from the Wellcome Collection in #London.
#HistMed #MementoMori #HistSci #Histodons #Museums #WeirdHistory #MuseumObject #SciArt #Queen
Great story about gene therapy cures and insurance from Wired. Will insurers pay current costs?
#genetherapy #hemophilia #AAV #medicine #Costofgoods #medmastodon #bigpharma #medicine
https://www.wired.com/story/the-era-of-one-shot-multi-million-dollar-genetic-cures-is-here/
@JanNolta bringst up a burning topic: how will we as a society leverage the massive price tags of new therapies...especially if these therapies can lead to cures?
"Developing countries are attuned to this need after many waited nearly a year for ample Covid-19 vaccine supplies as wealthy countries enjoyed an extended period of first dibs. Americans, for example, were offered third doses of #mRNA vaccines at a time when 98 percent of people in low-income countries had not received a single shot. Vaccine hoarding cost more than a million people their lives, according to a recent study in the journal #NatureMedicine."
#Covid #Covid19 #vaccine #PublicHealth
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/06/opinion/us-covid-vaccines-pandemic-prevention.html
RT @NatMetabolism@twitter.com
RESEARCH | From @NolwennJoffin@twitter.com et al. (@UTSWNews@twitter.com):
Altering #mitochondria iron levels in adipose tissue macrophages has profound effects on systemic metabolism in male mice. #Immunology
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NatMetabolism/status/1598299373384962048
RT @CNRS@twitter.com
Le CNRS recrute !
La campagne de recrutement des chercheurs et chercheuses est ouverte. Si comme nous, vous souhaitez participer aux grands défis scientifiques des décennies à venir, #RejoignezleCNRS (date limite de candidature : 5 janvier 2023).
➡ https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/concours-ch
RT @EmboMolMed@twitter.com
📢One week left to apply!
2 open positions @EMBOPress@twitter.com (one for @EmboMolMed@twitter.com - @MolSystBiol@twitter.com & one for @embojournal@twitter.com)
Apply by Dec 11 👉 https://www.embo.org/about-embo/work-for-us/
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To be honest, this seems worse than having the road blocked by #climate #activists for a few minutes.
A career resource from the Biophysical Society : #biophysics careers in industry. Chaired by @canklin56 - featuring four scientists talking about their experience with careers in industry. Includes #NMR, biomarkers, mass spec. & more https://www.biophysics.org/store/products/product-details?ProductName=live-qa-careers-in-industry
'Most of Italy's schools lack mechanical ventilation systems. Instead, teachers are urged to keep windows open when weather conditions permit.
If the most efficient systems were installed "we could pass from 250 cases per 100,000 students (the alert level set by the education ministry) to a rate of 50 per 100,000," the Hume foundation and the Marche regional government said'
RT @epiddin@twitter.com
The Piddini lab is recruiting! Join us @BristolUni@twitter.com to study #cellcompetition in Drosophila. Study new modulators we found in a recent screen. If you are interested in how #cellsignalling and #proteostasis affect cell fitness this is for you!#postdocjobs
https://go.nature.com/3uurLFK
RT @clavellab@twitter.com
We have positions available for PhD candidates 🌟 https://www.sfb1371.tum.de/news-events/jobs/ Join our team of highly motivated young and international scientists: http://www.clavel.ukaachen.de 🔥 @crc1371@twitter.com @NFDI4Microbiota@twitter.com
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MYC and MET cooperatively drive hepatocellular carcinoma with distinct molecular traits and vulnerabilities
Congrats to Flavio Maina, Celia Sequerra, Margherita Grattarola and colleagues
Our latest issue now complete, featuring:
✍️ An #Editorial on support for early-career researchers (ECRs)
📰 Reflections on neural stem cell research in Africa
🦠 A Special Article on the #Euglena International Network
🧪 #Research Articles and Methods & Techniques Articles
🎙️ #ECR interviews
https://journals.biologists.com/bio/issue/11/11
#Science #Biology #Community #AcademicMastodon #Publishing #StemCells
First post here! I’m Becca, cancer researcher and associate director for cancer research training and education at Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. I ❤️ studying cancer, career development/mentoring, #preprints , etc
RT @RubenQC_Lab@twitter.com
Lysosomal damage drives mitochondrial proteome remodelling and reprograms macrophage immunometabolism.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34632-8
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RubenQC_Lab/status/1599886399255498752
RT @the_Node@twitter.com
We're looking for a new Community Manager for the Node! @HelenZSci@twitter.com is leaving the Node☹️to take on the role of Community Manager at our sister site @focalplane_jcs@twitter.com😀so there's an opportunity for someone new to join the Node and @Dev_journal@twitter.com team!
RT @HaubensakL
The Haubensak Lab is hiring!🧠
From circuit neuroscience and behavior to data science, we offer Post-Doc and Master student positions in affective neuroscience. We're looking forward to your application! ⬇️
https://www.fens.org/careers/job-market/job/98910
https://www.fens.org/careers/job-market/job/98912
https://www.fens.org/careers/job-market/job/98914
We've developed light-activated antisense oligonucleotides by conjugating photocages onto phosphorothioates 😍🧬🔦!
We used these as cell-free expression OFF switches 🧪🛑⚡️!
Preprint from my student Denis Hartmann
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com