Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

'GSK itself acknowledges that it will limit its bets in a competitive field. On the company’s first-quarter earnings call this week, Walmsley said oncology was a “small but emerging” part of the business, and stressed the company’s leadership in infectious diseases, which account for two-thirds of the drugs in its pipeline target.'

https://www.ft.com/content/a0bd6cba-fef4-4186-9a48-cc5dc6a322f4

'Many on the left suspect that Darmanin was behind the arrest of Ernest Moret, a radical French publisher, at St Pancras station, as he made his way to the London Book Fair last month. A foreign rights manager at La Fabrique, Moret had bought Andreas Malm’s book How to Blow Up a Pipeline. He was questioned on other possible thought crimes, including his view of Macron’s presidency. Whoever was responsible for Moret’s arrest – and it may well have been Darmanin – has pressed the right button: the thought is as good as the deed.'

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n09/jeremy-harding/macron-v.-millions

'Además, desde 1916, compañías norteamericanas como Universal o Fox, ponen sus ojos en Brasil y Serrador no dejará escapar la oportunidad. En 1922 viaja durante tres años por Estados Unidos y Europa para conocer la industria cinematográfica. Fascinado por Hollywood y Nueva York, al regresar promoverá su gran proyecto: levantar en Rio de Janeiro un Broadway tropical, con rascacielos y modernos teatros y cines. Nacía el barrio de Cinelândia.'

https://elpais.com/espana/comunidad-valenciana/2023-04-29/francisco-serrador-el-emigrante-valenciano-que-levanto-un-imperio-cinematografico-en-brasil.html

"Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine saved millions of lives and made the biotech group one of America’s fastest-growing companies. But a plunge in sales of the jab due to the easing of the pandemic could push Moderna back into the red this year, as it races to prove it is not a “one-trick pony” with a single product"

https://www.ft.com/content/5fc71e17-541c-4fe8-a2cb-ae7d17917366

A useful rule of thumb is 'if Thomas Boehm is giving a seminar in your general geographic area, go'.

"As they seek that nectar, the frogs dunk their entire bodies into the plant’s flowers, only their butts sticking out. When they emerge, pollen gets stuck to their heads and backs. Then they hop off, potentially transporting the pollen from their previous stop at the tropical buffet into the next milk fruit flower they encounter."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/science/frogs-pollination-fruits.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Science

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'More than 75 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine demanded on Thursday that the organization explain why it has for years failed to return or repurpose millions of dollars donated by the Sackler family, including some who led Purdue Pharma.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/health/national-academies-sacklers.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Health