#HistoryScience

'Now, scientists have discovered that Leonardo did detailed experiments that sought to illuminate the nature of gravity a century before Galileo and some two centuries ahead of Newton’s making its investigation an exact science. The scientists’ study of his gravitational ideas and experimentation was published earlier this month in the journal “Leonardo.”

#HistoryScience #HistoryOfScience

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/science/leonard-da-vinci-gravity.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Science

Madalena made this illustration for a piece I wrote about Charles Lindbergh, who designed a perfusion pump for organ transplantation and published it in JEM 1935.
https://madalenaparreira.com

#HistoryScience #HistoryOfScience #ScientificIllustration

https://rupress.org/jem/article/62/3/409/4051/AN-APPARATUS-FOR-THE-CULTURE-OF-WHOLE-ORGANS

In which Charles Darwin tries to predict the book-buying public's taste.
(from Janet Browne's "Charles Darwin, The Power of Place").

#books #reading #bookworm #Evolution #Darwin #CharlesDarwin #HistoryOfScience #HistoryScience

Thirty years ago, in November 1992, Ishida, Honjo and their collaborators reported the discovery of the #PD1 gene in @embojournal

https://www.embopress.org/doi/abs/10.1002/j.1460-2075.1992.tb05481.x

I spoke with Tasuku Honjo, Pierre Golstein (whose team first cloned #CTLA4) & Facundo Batista about the discovery earlier this year.
The initial project had absolutely nothing to do with checkpoints or #immunotherapy

Listen to the full #EMBOPodcast episode at the link below or on pretty much any podcast app

#Immunology #HistoryScience #Cancer #CellDeath

https://www.embo.org/podcasts/from-cell-death-to-cancer-immunotherapy/