Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"There are, Schuppe Koistinen says, no probiotics available that contain the species of lactobacillus that scientists have identified as supporting good vaginal health."

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/11/the-vaginal-microbiome-how-to-look-after-it-and-what-to-avoid

'Yet it turns out that Olympia, or at least her model, has been to New York before. Last month, the anthropologist James Fairhead presented the astounding discovery of a newspaper interview from 1869 with a redheaded French dancer appearing onstage in New York. An enterprising producer had brought her from Paris to perform the cancan at a Broadway variety — and her name was Victorine Meurent.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/09/arts/design/olympia-manet-degas-new-york-met-museum.html

EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) at Hinxton is recruiting a Head of Research

https://www.embl.org/jobs/position/EBI02139

'Aliás um relatório de 2021 do Observatório Fiscal da União Europeia apontou este regime português de exceção para pensionistas não-residentes como "dos mais prejudiciais da UE". E explica porquê: "Estes regimes têm longas durações, grandes vantagens fiscais e visam apenas indivíduos de rendimentos muito elevados ou não se repercutem numa atividade económica real no Estado-membro."

https://www.dn.pt/opiniao/-subsidios-para-o-encarecer-da-habitacao-17007780.html

'Using mammalian cells in culture, we discovered that they adapt to chronic mild stresses of up to two weeks, notably proteotoxic stresses such as heat, by increasing their size and translation, thereby scaling the amount of total protein.'

#Preprint #CellBiology

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.25.525547v3

'Most adults cannot remember anything of their lives before the age of three or four, a phenomenon known as infantile amnesia. Scientists have suggested that this early forgetting is related to two aspects of cognitive development. First, cementing autobiographical memory requires language: it is harder to retain something when you lack the words to express it. Second, it requires a coherent sense of self, the ability to distinguish between “this happened” and “this happened to me”.'

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/11/the-big-idea-are-memories-fact-or-fiction

'Miles de personas han llegado la noche de este lunes al Estadio Nacional de Chile, el mayor centro de detención y tortura que existió durante la dictadura de Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), para rendir homenaje a Salvador Allende y las víctimas del régimen autoritario.'

https://elpais.com/chile/2023-09-12/chile-homenajea-a-allende-en-el-estadio-nacional-el-mayor-centro-de-detencion-y-torturas-de-la-dictadura.html

My latest for Nature Medicine: transgenic pig organs for xenografts transplanted into brain-dead human recipients.

Kidney & heart transplants at NYU, UAB & Maryland. They've succeeded in overcoming hyperacute rejection, but many challenges remain.

#Immunology #Transplantation

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41591-023-00078-8

'Dos fármacos contra la obesidad, Ozempic y Wegovy, han conjurado el fantasma de la recesión en Dinamarca. El primero se usa habitualmente para el tratamiento de la diabetes, pero su empleo para la obesidad ha crecido exponencialmente en los últimos meses; el segundo es específico frente a esta dolencia, que ya afecta a más de 650 millones de personas en todo el mundo.'

https://elpais.com/economia/2023-09-12/dos-farmacos-contra-la-obesidad-alejan-el-fantasma-de-la-rececion-en-dinamarca.html