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V2 of my preprint with PhD student Kim Verity is now online: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

tldr: If you want to assess the shape (e.g. balance, diversity) of a rooted tree then generally you're better off using our new indices than Sackin's index, phylogenetic entropy, etc.

The article is long mainly because we provide lots of examples. I plan soon to write a shorter #mathonco blog post explaining why these indices are better than prior approaches. Meanwhile, here's a poster.

Checkpoint inhibitors beyond cancer: targets for restoring CD8 T cell function in people living with HIV.

"Our results demonstrated a marked and significant increase in TIGIT CD8+ T-cells, particularly within the central memory compartment, not ameliorated by long-term ART."

elifesciences.org/articles/837

Out @PLOSBiology! Inhibitory signals from turning neurons gate the worm's response to mechanosensory stimuli! Beautiful work by Sandeep Kumar and co-authors Anuj Sharma, Andrew Tran & Mochi Liu plos.io/455hWOh

This “thought-provoking” paper exploits new #CryoET tools to examine the state of chromatin in situ, finding that nucleosomes in baker’s yeast cells are different from those in test tubes. elifesciences.org/articles/876

'Their personalities were fundamentally unalike, in ways that could scratch like sandpaper. The Irish critic George Moore, who hung out with them in Paris, described them thus: “Manet loud, declaratory, and eager for medals and decorations; Degas sharp, deep, more profound, scornfully sarcastic.”

nytimes.com/2023/09/21/arts/de

Marine Le Pen should stand trial over alleged misuse of EU funds, say prosecutors

Request comes after a seven-year investigation into far-right leader’s party

theguardian.com/world/2023/sep

On this day in 1863: Alexandre Yersin born, co-discovered bacteria that causes the plague (Yersina pestis) & diphtheria toxin #ThisDayInBiotech

'El teniente coronel brasileño Mauro Cid, que durante cuatro años fue secretario particular de Jair Bolsonaro, ha declarado a la policía que, tras la derrota electoral, el aún presidente se reunió con la cúpula militar para consultarles sobre un posible golpe de Estado'

elpais.com/internacional/2023-

Michael Faraday was born #OTD in 1791. English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis. As a chemist, he discovered benzene, investigated the clathrate hydrate of chlorine, invented an early form of the Bunsen burner and the system of oxidation numbers. via @wikipedia

Michael Faraday at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/55

#books #science #physics

'Because the scRNA-seq dataset had been obtained using CITE-seq, a method that keeps track of cell-surface markers by using oligonucleotide-tagged antibodies, we were able to identify surface markers for human exTreg cells. We found that CD56 and CD16 (normally expressed by natural killer cells) identify human exTreg cells.'

nature.com/articles/s41590-023

I talked to Inside Science on BBC Radio Four about our upcoming ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (#CDR) experiment in San Francisco Bay here. I also said other things about CDR and MRV. Starts at 21:45.

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qmpq

"(...) in 2022, the College Board boasts, roughly 1.2 million students took more than four million A.P. exams in public high schools throughout the country. And when I teach a first-year writing course, or an introductory course in the English major, I inevitably spend the first few weeks undoing the damage the A.P. system does to how students understand both writing and the study of literature."

newrepublic.com/article/173547

Chromosome-Scale Genome Assembly of the Solitary Parasitoid Wasp Microplitis manilae Ashmead, 1904 (Braconidae: Microgastrinae) doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad144 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper

.@xanderjones82 &co describe Highlighter, an #optogenetic tool for fine-scale eukaryotic #GeneExpression control, and deploy it in #plants to enable cell-level hypothesis testing. @slcuplants @RobertoHofmann1 #PLOSBiology plos.io/3RvZvzh

#LongCovid: the doctors’ lives destroyed by an illness they caught while doing their jobs

bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p1983

'For German contemporaries, the leitmotif of 1923 was uncertainty. At different times the country seemed on the brink of civil war, communist revolution, military dictatorship, societal implosion, or a combination of the above. As the academic Victor Klemperer noted in his diary: “Every day you say that a catastrophe must arrive, without knowing which one”.'

ft.com/content/67aeb1f8-060e-4

Canonical #glycolysis converts glucose into 2x #acetylCoA via eleven biochemical reactions. This study repurposes #phosphoketolase to construct an artificial three-reaction pathway with a theoretical 100% yield of acetyl-CoA from any sugar. #SynBio #PLOSBiology plos.io/48sKTH0

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