Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

"Yet officials with the National Academies have kept quiet about one thing: their decision to accept roughly $19 million in donations from members of the Sackler family, the owners of Purdue Pharma, the maker of the drug OxyContin that is notorious for fueling the opioid epidemic."
cc @mucida

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/23/health/sacklers-opioids-national-academies-science.html

'Não repara quem está distraído: a extrema-direita em barda recorre aos tribunais para processar ativistas, políticos e quem se destaca no espaço público em defesa do antirracismo, da igualdade, do combate à desigualdade e do progressismo.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/04/24/opiniao/opiniao/obrigada-francisca-van-dunem-2047212

Frogs, glazed #stoneware by @hunchbacksociety

#ceramics #ceramicart #handmade #artgallery #artmastodon

https://madalenaparreira.com/Hunchbacksociety

"Transplantation of hNSCs has been shown to increase the number of CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ T regulatory cells (Tregs) in the spinal cords of murine models of MS, which is correlated with a strong localized remyelination response. However, the mechanisms by which hNSC transplantation leads to an increase in Tregs in the CNS remains unclear."

#immunology #Neuroimmunology

https://journals.aai.org/jimmunol/article-abstract/doi/10.4049/jimmunol.2200798/263631/Presentation-of-Human-Neural-Stem-Cell-Antigens?redirectedFrom=fulltext

'To appreciate this catastrophe, we’ve got to move the focus off humans, at least for a bit. H5N1 is devastating the world’s birds. Eagles are dropping dead, as are great horned owls and peregrine falcons and pelicans. Twenty California condors recently died of what’s suspected to be avian flu — 10 are confirmed so far. It’s the worst thing that has happened to wild birds since the pesticide DDT.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/23/opinion/bird-flu.html

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'Our studies demonstrate that in vivo trans PD-L1/CD80 interactions do exist between T and tumor cells, and in vivo blockade of trans PD-L1/CD80 interactions or general PD-L1/CD80 interactions augment tumor immunity via expansion of IFN-γ-producing CD8+T cells and NOS2+macrophages in the tumor tissues.'

#immunology #immunooncology #immunotherapy #checkpointinhibitors

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2205085120

'Um outro ponto importante, que se coaduna com a estratégia de internacionalização das actividades da Fiocruz, é a possibilidade de a Fiocruz abrir uma filial aqui em Portugal por meio de um escritório ou um laboratório. Instalar fora do Brasil a partir de uma experiência que já teve em Moçambique.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/04/23/ciencia/entrevista/fiocruz-gigante-inovacao-area-saude-brasil-quer-abrir-filial-portugal-2047169

"Request reviews and feedback for the next preprint that you post by submitting to a review service (such as Peer Community In, eLife, Review Commons, PeerRef, etc) and/or including an explicit invitation to review on the first page of your preprint or other public location. "

https://asapbio.org/advancing-the-culture-of-peer-review-with-preprints-a-call-to-action

'El actual brote de dengue en Argentina es el más letal de la historia en el país sudamericano. Hasta mitad de abril, el número de casos registrados de dengue fue de 56.324 y las muertes ascendieron a 39, según el último Boletín epidemiológico del Ministerio de Salud, publicado este sábado.'

#Dengue #publichealth

https://elpais.com/argentina/2023-04-23/argentina-registra-el-brote-de-dengue-mas-letal-de-su-historia-con-al-menos-39-muertos.html

'Philips Respironics, a subsidiary, is facing lawsuits over a faulty component in devices that help people suffering from sleep apnoea to breathe. It has set aside more than €1.1bn to cover the costs of the recall.'

https://www.ft.com/content/3b42213e-ba82-4718-bb4e-f4fbe5f6206d

Richard Avedon and James Baldwin in Harlem, 15 October 1946 © Photograph by Richard Avedon © The Richard Avedon Foundation

https://www.ft.com/content/62a017eb-0ab6-449f-9d06-646c0bd42bc4