Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'More than half of all British defence exports go to the Middle East – but to Saudi Arabia rather than Israel. Human rights organisations, including Amnesty International, accuse BAESystems of being party to Saudi war crimes in Yemen, where BAE-supplied (and serviced) fighters have bombed schools and hospitals.'

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n22/james-butler/up-in-arms

"Brazil is now the world’s leading consumer of highly hazardous pesticides, and the second leading consumer of all pesticides. In part, this massive consumption is because Brazil applies pesticides (per hectare) at a rate 2.3 times higher than the United States and 3 times higher than China"

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2306003120?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=pnasnews&utm_content=aec1800f-82f5-4993-9f56-ea54b6ede40b&utm_campaign=hootsuite

@gpollara Project the poster!

It's Solomon Sunday here on Mastodon, folks! You bring your contested babies, I bring the giant sword.

Long ago, in an Ubatuba far far away

"And all the while, the lice have recorded this journey in their genes. A new study, for example, found that some lice in the Americas are hybrids of those carried there by Native Americans and others ferried across the Atlantic by European colonists."
@Carl_Zimmer

#Evolution #Biology #PopGen #SciComm

Pediculus humanus, the human louse. Image Credit:Frank Collins/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/science/lice-genes-human-history.html

"Entre los sospechosos habituales está Estados Unidos, donde más del 70% de los adultos sufren obesidad o tienen sobrepeso y donde la enfermedad es la principal causa de muerte. También México: cerca del 73% de la población excede de su peso recomendable. Además, el 34% de esas personas enfermas sufren obesidad mórbida (IMC superior a 40). En realidad, el continente americano es uno de los más azotados por este mal, que tendrá un impacto económico anual del 3,7% del PIB en 2035, de acuerdo con las estimaciones del Atlas Mundial de la Obesidad."

https://elpais.com/economia/negocios/2023-11-11/el-desastre-economico-de-los-kilos-de-mas-las-farmaceuticas-se-frotan-las-manos-en-un-mundo-cada-vez-mas-obeso.html

'Therapy-elicited neutrophils acquired an interferon gene signature, also seen in human patients, and appeared essential for successful therapy, as loss of the interferon-responsive transcription factor IRF1 in neutrophils led to failure of immunotherapy.'

#Immunology #Immunotherapy

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00210-6?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867423002106%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

"Ultimately, however, Factor VIII killed many of those who infused it in the 1970s and 1980s. For decades, British officials and ministers claimed that the contaminated blood scandal was a tragedy no one could have prevented: when haemophiliacs began to be infected, hepatitis C hadn’t even been named, and HIV/Aids was entirely unknown; new protocols were introduced once the dangers became clear. According to Margaret Thatcher, ‘all patients received the best treatment available in light of the medical knowledge at the time.’ These claims were not true."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n22/florence-sutcliffe-braithwaite/we-ve-messed-up-boys

"Factor VIII concentrate was developed later in the decade. Production involved pooling many batches of donated blood, then fractionating it. The Factor VIII was freeze-dried and packed into bottles. Haemophiliacs could get it out of the fridge themselves, mix it and inject it to stop bleeds. It was a miracle treatment: in 1962 the median life expectancy for severe haemophiliacs in Britain was 37; by 1980 it was practically normal."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n22/florence-sutcliffe-braithwaite/we-ve-messed-up-boys