Postdoc fellow opportunity in the group of Sheena Radford: https://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=FBSAS1057 Advertised as focused on #NMR in context of #amyloid formation. Deadline in March 2023. (Check the link!) #nmrchat
At the CRG-Barcelona:
"The Severo Ochoa IMPULSE Visitor Program call is now open!
Apply if you would like to have access to the Core Technologies, Scientific Resources and Business and Development capacities available at the CRG. You will be hosted by CRG groups or Core Technology units and will integrate into the group activities."
https://www.crg.eu/en/content/careers-job-opportunities/impulse-2023
A #preprint with a new method that could allow detecting a mutation in its infant stage, when it's still just a mismatch:
"Here, we developed a single-molecule, long-read sequencing method that achieves single-molecule fidelity for single-base substitutions when present in either one or both strands of the DNA."
As part of the March 9
#JoinMastodonDay effort:
https://neuromatch.social/@elduvelle/109861042649284737,
@elduvelle, @noellemitchell, @alexwild
I suggest that we each email 1 individual & 1 organization with an invite/nudge.
You in?
"And a grim report today in The Lancet and being presented at a conference in Seattle, which analyzes the death last summer in Mexico and the cases of 381 other mpox patients who also had advanced HIV infections, makes clear the disease poses an enormous risk to those living with uncontrolled HIV. Of the 179 patients with less than 200 CD4 cells per microliter—more than 500 is considered normal—27 died."
Autoimmunity in Down’s syndrome via cytokines, CD4 T cells and CD11c+ B cells
Conceptualizing microbe–plasmid communities as complex adaptive systems
@TrendsMicrobiol Opinion by @shaipilo
https://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/fulltext/S0966-842X(23)00025-2
"Thus, studies of MSMD (Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease ) have revealed that human antimycobacterial immunity is a genetically controlled quantitative trait: the lower the level of IFN-γ activity, the more severe the disease and the higher its penetrance"
#immunology #InfetionImmunity #InfectiousDisease #mycobacterium #tuberculosis
"The idea that I wanted to address is the impression that some parts of the public have now that vaccine development is apparently not all that hard."
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/there-are-vaccines-and-there-are-vaccines
THE CASE FOR FREE-RANGE LAB MICE
🧵 A THREAD on my new @NewYorker story
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-case-for-free-range-lab-mice
Modeling work from Gjorgjieva’s lab on turtle visual cortex reveals the role of weak synaptic connections among neurons:
“rare strong connections support sequence propagation, while dense weak connections modulate propagation reliability.”
“Applying external inputs to specific neurons in the sparse backbone of strong connections can effectively control propagation and route activity within the network.”
This paper provides an excellent overview
https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-021-01184-0
versatile use of bat ACE2 for
cellular entry of #MERSCoV like viruses
https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(22)00614-X
"Si dos medicamentos se parecen demasiado, por el nombre o el envase, el hospital puede buscar una alternativa con menores riesgos. A veces esto no es posible, y entonces se utilizan otras medidas como las llamadas tall man letters (las letras del hombre alto, en inglés), que destacan en mayúsculas las letras diferentes en nombres parecidos. Un ejemplo seria “cloZApina” y “cloTIApina”, dos antipsicóticos."
'I was struggling to update my corkboard when I read this exquisitely pulpy line: “Lawler was a New York blue blood who married a nouveau riche nobody named Constantine Psomas — a.k.a. the can man.” Warmth filled my guts like whiskey. I didn’t need a map. Mosley was driving me to Rikers in a cream-colored Bianchina, and Mingus was playing on the stereo. I was along for the ride.'
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com