"Barnett Rosenberg wasn't trying to cure cancer. He wasn't working on cancer. He wasn't working on any disease-related problem. He wasn't even working with human cells. All he was trying to do was to test a hypothesis about what would happen when dividing bacteria were placed in a strong electric field."
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-2001-3-1-comment1001
'On 16 Sep 2024, I watched with utter incredulity at Dr Ritchie giving her evidence at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. When challenged with Professor Beggs’ IPC expert evidence concerning airborne transmission of Covid-19, Dr Ritchie appeared to contradict him by stating that the epidemiology and scientific literature did not support airborne spread as the predominant mode of transmission and that the latest World Health Organization (WHO) guidance hadn’t changed in this respect.'
https://www.pslhub.org/learn/coronavirus-covid19/questions-around-government-governance-on/covid-19-a-risk-assessment-too-far-a-blog-by-david-osborn-r12061/
Severe flooding hits Italian city of Faenza for third time in 16 months https://buff.ly/3MUXeu0 #ClimateCrisis
'The strikingly simple, almost primitive looking experimental methods he employed in his thesis against the backdrop of ongoing World War II left a deep impression on me, especially with the historical hindsight of knowing that both Jacob-Monod model of gene regulation and the later study of allostery build up on this thesis work- of E.coli in variety of sugar waters.'
https://naturepoker.wordpress.com/2021/07/15/searching-for-phi-x-174/
'In 1941, the humorist Will Cuppy wrote that the dodo — with an ugly face, a misplaced tail, too-small wings and a prominent stomach — seemed to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct. “You can’t look like that and survive,” he mused. “Or can you?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/20/science/archaeology-dodo-extinction.html
“In what world can an organisation seriously think it is all right to run a prominent cancer event, bringing together world experts, while also taking sponsorship from a company whose product has caused millions of cancer deaths worldwide? Absolutely shocking.”
Post doc
Lund university
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/lund-university-27778-post-doc/?feed_id=82907
#hematopoiesis #leukemia #protein_degradation #ubiquitin #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/lund-university-27778-post-doc/?feed_id=82907
Lies About Immigration Help No One
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/09/springfield-trump-vance-lies-immigrants/679959/
PhD in evo devo lab studying millipede tracheal patterning
University of British Columbia
A 4-year PhD fellowship is available to study the evolution and development (evo devo) of millipede trachea in Vancouver, Canada
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-british-columbia-27778-phd-in-evo-devo-lab-studying-milliped...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-british-columbia-27778-phd-in-evo-devo-lab-studying-millipede-tracheal-patterning/?feed_id=82900
'In the ruins of the Kharkiv suburbs recently, and in the rubble of the Kherson region last year, I was reminded of a nurse who arrived at a Nazi concentration camp in 1945 after “liberation.” She wrote in her diary that this was not the correct word. Inmates could not be regarded as free, she thought, until they had been restored to health and their trauma was addressed.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/opinion/ukraine-america-russia-freedom.html
'Depois, aviões de Israel rugiram sobre uma Beirute em choque, bombardearam o Sul do Líbano. E continuei a ver títulos como: EUA correm a travar escalada da guerra. Será isso na Lua? Em Marte? Ou é mesmo aquela guerra que os americanos continuam a armar? Ao fim de quase um ano, e de nunca se ter visto tanto horror em directo com tanta lata. E tanta troça.'
"Practice any art."
"Fossil fuel companies sponsor $5.6bn in global ‘sportswashing’ deals"
"Here, through in vivo and ex vivo isotopic tracing, we examined the contributions of different nutrients to neutrophil metabolism under specific conditions. Human peripheral blood neutrophils, in contrast to a neutrophil-like cell line, rely on glycogen storage as a major metabolic source under resting state but rapidly switch to primarily using extracellular glucose upon activation with various stimuli."
#Immunology #Metabolism
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2321212121
'To elucidate the in vivo function of neoself-antigens presented on MHC-II by decreased Ii expression, we analyzed the antigen specificity of clonally expanded autoreactive T cells in SLE patients as well as in drug-inducible Ii knockout (Ii-iKO) mice, which allowed us to delete the Ii from adult mice. We demonstrate that neoself-antigens presented on MHC-II upon decreases in Ii expression levels are recognized by CD4+ T cells as non-self-antigens and are the primary targets for autoreactive T cells clonally expanded in SLE patients. Furthermore, we suggested that EBV reactivation, which downregulates Ii expression, could be involved in the activation of neoself-reactive T cells.'
#Immunology #Autoimmunity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092867424009139
Hilarious hijinx did not ensue
'Capitalism’s radical critics (Vladimir Lenin) and radical supporters (Friedrich Hayek) agreed that monopoly meant oppression. Markets are supposed to enable competition, spread information, and separate economics from politics. But what would happen when giant Soviet enterprises came into private hands?'
https://lithub.com/timothy-snyder-on-how-the-collapse-of-the-soviet-union-took-america-by-surprise/
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com