Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Scientists investigate the potential of sustainable #legume #protein production in Switzerland.

#agriculture #sustainability

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-scientists-potential-sustainable-legume-protein.html

My conversation with Katalin Karikó, the 2023 Nobel laureate for discovery of the mRNA platform. It's hard to imagine a more inspiring story!
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/katalin-kariko-the-unimaginable-obstacle
Ground Truths podcasts are now on Apple and Spotify

After 8+ incredible years at @ASAPbio I am beginning a new chapter as Open Science Program Director at Astera Institute later this month. So, we're looking for new leadership: please share the posting with people passionate about open science! https://asapbio.org/job-posting-executive-director-of-asapbio-deadline-feb-19

“We can still fix the housing crisis: here’s how”

Excellent article in The Star that covers the causes of Toronto’s housing crisis. From insufficient supply of both non market and market housing, to cessation of purpose built rental, to services downloaded from feds and provide, to increased immigration.

Points to Sweden having had similar crisis in early ‘60s. Solved by ambitious 10 year housing plan.

https://www.thestar.com/business/regular-families-will-never-again-be-able-to-buy-a-house-in-toronto-but-we/article_fa75e335-1cc3-5057-8d05-7c6068c4cbc4.html

#HousingCrisis #Toronto #ToPoli #Housing #OnPoli

Enhanced Electrophoretic Depletion of Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate with Methanol for Membrane Proteome Analysis by Mass Spectrometry https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/12/1/5

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#proteomics #prot-paper

"If we want to understand leadership, and how it works in the world, should we be looking primarily at the ways the leader changed the world? Or should we focus on the ways in which the world produced, and then constrained, the leader?"
v. @cyrilpedia
https://aeon.co/essays/who-are-the-leaders-in-our-heads-and-how-did-they-get-there

Conformational transitions and activation of the adhesion receptor CD97 https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(23)01039-0?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Katalin Karikó: The unimaginable, obstacle-laden, multi-decade journey to discover the mRNA platform and win the 2023 Nobel Prize
#Science #COVID19 #mRNAVaccines #Vaccines

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/katalin-kariko-the-unimaginable-obstacle

What’s in your prenatal vitamins?

“Some supplements are needed, and prenatal vitamins are one of the best examples. Unfortunately, they are also a great example of why products need to be tested and safe because pregnant people shouldn’t have to play folic acid, vitamin, and heavy metal roulette. We need more studies to understand how common contamination is with these products and how often they deviate from the amounts listed on the labels”
#Pregnancy #Vitamins
https://vajenda.substack.com/p/whats-in-your-prenatal-vitamin

#Arctic air temperature rank by month over the satellite era - now updated through January 2024

+ Ranks: 1=warmest (red), 45/46=coldest (blue)
+ Download visual: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-temperatures/
+ Data from: https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.ncep.reanalysis.html

Important discovery related to LongCovid: Fragments of SARS-CoV-2 virus can reassemble into "zombie" complexes (XenoAMP-dsDNA) and induce a major and sustained immune response, affecting healthy, uninfected cells, not seen with common cold coronaviruses

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300644120

An unprecedented atlas of the subcellular organisation of #malaria parasites using expansion microscopy. #Plasmodium #Microbiology https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/88088?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

@cyrilpedia
Not even work visas. To my shock horror and my PhD student's despair, we found out at the beginning of January this year, the queue for a conference appointment based visa at the USA embassy in London is so long, his appointment is a week later than the conference starting (early May)....how is this just! #lablife #inequality and there is nothing we can do but give up

@cyrilpedia There was also a big #Measles outbreak in West Africa right after the Ebola epidemic, exactly as the late Dr Hans Rosling had predicted in 2014. In that case, children missed their vaccinations because the schools were closed.

I'm not sure how much COVID pandemic school closings affected measles vaccination in Europe and North America, but it's a good reminder that #PublicHealth is about balancing everything, not optimising the response for one thing.

"In 2022, there were 941 reported cases of measles in the World Health Organization’s European region. Over just the first 10 months of last year, according to an alarming bulletin the W.H.O. issued in mid-December, there were more than 30,000."
#publichealth #vaccines #measles

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/opinion/health/measels-europe-vaccination.html