US report found that Israel blocked Gaza aid, but the Biden administration kept weapons flowing
STAT+: Amid push to redefine itself, Sanofi names new chief scientific officer
Brain inflammation and cognitive decline induced by spinal cord injury can be reversed by spinal cord cell transplants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.20.614106v1?med=mas
Do Tiny Forests Have a Big Impact? 📝 🧵
https://botany.fyi/8x4h9c
Miyawaki forests offer fast-growing, biodiverse native woodlands in small urban spaces.
#Botany #PlantScience #InBrief
Qi and colleagues explored the Miyawaki forest method's feasibility in the UK. This approach involves dense planting of native trees to create mini forests, promising rapid growth and rich biodiversity.
Identification of neurodevelopmental organization of the cell populations of juvenile Huntington's disease using dorso-ventral HD organoids and HD mouse embryos https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.23.614496v1?med=mas
'Human inborn errors of the type I IFN response pathway and auto-Abs neutralizing IFN-α, -β, and/or -ω can underlie severe viral illnesses. We report a simple assay for the detection of both types of condition.'
The catabolic nature of fermentative substrates influence proteomic rewiring in Escherichia coli under anoxic growth https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.19.613855v1?med=mas
Planes should fly slower to reduce emissions, new study says
Reducing plane speeds by 15 per cent would mean less fuel is burned by the flight
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Thank you to organisers @jamesbriscoe, Olivier Pourquié and Emma Rawlins and everyone who joined us for our @Dev_journal 'From Stem Cells to Human Development' Meeting #CoBHumanDev.
We hope to see you at the next @Co_Biologists meeting. https://www.biologists.com/meetings/
When 'Between the World and Me' Faced a School Book Ban, Ta-Nehisi Coates Decided to Report It Out
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/ta-nehisi-coates-the-message
'Here, we epigenomically compared the activity of Nr2f1’s enhancers during mouse cortical development with their activity in a transgenic assay; we identified at least six that are likely to be important in prenatal cortical development. We studied the function of two robust enhancers by deleting them singly or together. '
"Truth" Social - where a con man can lie to his base with impunity -- It's stock price continues to crash.
'Ms. Jones is an exemplary librarian at the Louisiana middle school she attended as a child. In 2022, as president of the Louisiana Association of School Librarians, she was well aware of the book-banning epidemic sweeping the country. When “book content” appears on the agenda of a library board meeting these days, the discussion generally concerns titles featuring L.G.B.T.Q. characters or subjects involving racism.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/opinion/book-bans-librarians.html
'A new Federal Trade Commission staff report that examines the data collection and use practices of major social media and video streaming services shows they engaged in vast surveillance of consumers in order to monetize their personal information while failing to adequately protect users online, especially children and teens.'
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/09/ftc-staff-report-finds-large-social-media-video-streaming-companies-have-engaged-vast-surveillance
"But apart from the permanently central role of technology in microbiology, there is one conceptual fracture in our otherwise continuous progress toward a better understanding of microbial life that can serve as a line between the still alive and well classical roots of microbiology and its aspiring modern times: our expanding focus from individual organisms in cultures to complex communities in natural habitats, with the admission that “a pure culture is not enough."
#Microbiology
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00955-3
'En ouvrant les publications scientifiques à la lecture et en donnant accès aux données associées, on favorise les collaborations, on gagne en efficacité collective car les résultats de la recherche publique sont plus transparents et reproductibles. Cela permet de renforcer le lien de confiance entre science et société, d’autant que les résultats scientifiques sont la matière première pour penser le monde de demain. La crise du Covid-19 est un exemple parlant : un vaccin a été produit en un temps record. Cette prouesse a été permise grâce à l’ouverture des résultats scientifiques.'
https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite/point-detape-sur-louverture-des-publications-scientifiques
"Em primeiro lugar, dos cerca de 3000 investigadores actualmente com contratos precários, 1600 ficarão desempregados no próximo ano e meio. É possível que uma parte destes investigadores venha a ser abrangida pelas 1100 vagas agora anunciadas pelo programa FCT-Tenure, mas é impossível saber quantos, uma vez que estas vagas serão preenchidas através de concursos internacionais. Além disso, a FCT anunciou que “os concursos CEEC Individuais se focarão nos investigadores doutorados em início de carreira” e serão limitados a três anos."
"The shark’s remarkable longevity first came to light in 2016, when a landmark study published in Science used radiocarbon dating methods and modeling techniques to estimate the ages of 28 Greenland sharks.
The researchers found that the oldest sharks could live for about 400 years and reached sexual maturity around age 150."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/science/greenland-sharks-genetics.html
Localized translation of erm-1 contributes to ERM-1 function in the C. elegans embryo https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.23.614538v1?med=mas
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
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