Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"The UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is quietly returning £1.6 billion (US$1.9 billion) in funding to the Treasury that had been earmarked for research collaborations with the European Union in its 2022–23 budget. But the government swears that the money is not lost to UK science."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00546-8

"Ventura usa a mentira para fazer passar a sua mensagem e, quando apanhado a mentir, demonstra não ter passado pela fila daquilo que permanentemente apregoa: vergonha."

https://www.publico.pt/2023/02/24/opiniao/opiniao/entrevista-ventura-2040082

Albufeira

@bufalo1973@xarxa.cloud @seatsixtyone I scream with it, since I live in Lisbon and one of my best friends is in Badajoz (and Merida's Roman ruins and museum are fantastic). The absence of a Lisbon Madrid link is absurd. It used to exist, train links are worse now than they were 20 years ago! But sure let's build more airports...

"Here, we show that in both normal and malignant B-cells, CD20 down-regulation commonly occurs via alternative splicing in its 5′ UTR."

#preprint

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.19.529123v1

Analysis of copy number variation following platinum-based chemo.

"Here, we demonstrate that platinum-based chemotherapies also leave a type of larger mutational footprints in the genomes of exposed cells. These consist in an increase of chromosomal fragments of copy number between 1 and 4 and length below 40 Mb, possibly resulting from an increased frequency of double strand breaks in the chromosomes of the cells of exposed patients."

https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1010634

@caesoma Now you got me singing The Circle of Life

@seatsixtyone Portugal is an embarrassment - unconnected to Europe (or even Iberia) by train, all the local politicians debate is building more airports.