Dan Mucida @mucida@qoto.org

@mucida @gpollara agree! I think it is building slowly but steadily. Microbiology folks are coming as well but I hope more migrate.

The latest episode of the EMBO Podcast #EMBOPodcast is out

I spoke with Roger Reddel & Tracy Bryan at Sydney's Children's Medical Research Institute about their classic 1995 @embojournal paper describing #telomerase independent #telomere lengthening in immortalised cell lines. It challenged conventional wisdom at the time - and it was Bryan's PhD project, quite a way to get started in science.

@miguelgf provided some perspective on the work and its enduring significance and editor @HVodermaier explained #EMBOJournal's interest in studies with striking findings that may not provide a full mechanistic description.

You can listen to "ALTernative immortality" at the link below or on your preferred podcast app. Special thanks to Igor Jukic & audio producer extraordinaire @marcoantonio

https://www.embo.org/podcasts/alternative-immortality/

A French thermometer from 1750 at the Arts et Métiers museum. Maxes out at 32°C, with "summer heat" between 20°C and 30°C #globalwarming

"Zombie fly. A parasitic fungus erupts from the body of a fly in the Tambopata National Reserve in Peru. Evolutionary biologist Roberto García Roa captured the shot, which won this year’s BMC Ecology and Evolution image competition. The spores of the ‘zombie’ fungus infiltrate the fly’s exoskeleton and brain and compel it to migrate to a location that is more favourable for the fungus’s growth.

Credit: Roberto García-Roa (CC BY 4.0)"

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-04372-2/index.html

25,663 accounts
+2 in the last day
+75 in the last week

Admittedly, these days #mastodons have a very special place in our hearts , so this new research really speaks to us! The oldest #DNA ever recovered, from permafrost in Greenland, has revealed that the elephant-like creatures roamed northern #Greenland 2 million years ago. Now a barren polar desert, the area apparently used to be a lush landscape of trees & home to a diverse flora & fauna. *Go mastodons, go!* https://nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04377-x

The Nation's 1955 article on the Emmett Till "trial":

'Citizens who drink from the “Whites Only” fountain in the courthouse breathe much easier now that the two fair-skinned half brothers, ages twenty-four and thirty-six, have been acquitted of the murder of a fourteen-year-old Negro boy. The streets are quiet, Chicago is once more a mythical name, and everyone here “knows his place.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/land-of-the-free-this-firsthand-report-from-the-emmett-till-murder-trial-is-chilling-to-read-today/?ref=the-browser

Our new must-read Nature paper: Inheritance of paternal DNA damage by repair restriction
We resolve one of the most long standing riddles in radiation biology: What are the heritable consequences of paternal radiation exposure? @CECAD @UniKoeln @dfg_public Find the answer here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05544-w