Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

#IDMastodon #Cardioimmunology Inflammation plays a pivotal role in the development and progression of #CVD & #viralinfections are potential triggers of inflammation. Women have a 4x higher risk of dying from #CVD if they have an infection with a high-risk strain of HPV. The evidence that viruses in general and HPV in particular increase the risk of adverse outcomes from ASCVD has become compelling enough to add to the already strong case for #vaccination against #influenza 🦠 , #SARSCoV2, & HPV

Natural History Museum of London's Wildlife Photographer of the Year award is Nima Sarikhani, for her captivating image of a polar bear sleeping on sea ice.

1 in 10 premature births in the US have been linked to pregnant women being exposed to chemicals in extremely common #plastic products, new study finds. @leotrasande:„Because they affect hormones, these chemicals can precipitate early labor & early birth".
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-premature-births-linked-plastic-chemicals.html

#AfricanArt #surrealism #surrealart #oilpainting or #artprint
Painting of the Day. The Happy Family XII
> > https://www.artcameroon.com/happy-family-golden/
@Anguwalters has created a tapestry of emotions, connecting lines and vivid colors that form a surreal family portrait.

Lithographic print on wood, 12x15cm by @madparreira.bsky.social

#Art #Prints #Printmaking #Handmade #artgallery #artmastodon

https://madalenaparreira.com/Objects-and-ceramics

'That probably nonexistent something is Yamagata, a lineage of influenza B viruses that hasn’t been spotted by global surveyors since March of 2020, shortly after COVID mitigations plummeted flu transmission to record lows.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/02/flu-vaccine-pandemic-change-yamagata-trivalent/677350/

"The United States government has placed detained immigrants in solitary confinement more than 14,000 times in the last five years, and the average duration is almost twice the 15-day threshold that the United Nations has said may constitute torture"

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/health/solitary-confinement-immigrants-us.html

"If you’ve presented the same arm for every dose of a particular vaccine, you may want to reconsider. Alternating arms may produce a more powerful immune response, a new study suggests."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/health/vaccines-arms-immunity.html

'Here, we present T-FINDER [T cell Functional Identification and (Neo)-antigen Discovery of Epitopes and Receptors], a system to rapidly deconvolute CD4 and CD8 TCRs and targets physiologically processed and presented by an individual’s unmanipulated, complete human leukocyte antigen (HLA) haplotype'
#Immunology

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk3060

We are starting up our monthly “Classic papers in HIV ” journal club again where we discuss older papers that introduced something new which changed the field. This is the 3rd time around that we've done it, each time for about 10 months, a year break, and the start up again. Previous papers are here: https://research.fredhutch.org/emerman/en/courses/classic-papers-in-hiv-biology-journal-club.html . Its really fascinating talking about the hypotheses, the tools available at the time, and what came after.
#Virology #HIV #lablife #science #ClassicPapers

'Twenty days after being infected with C. rodentium, only half of mice that had been bred to lack C3 survived. By contrast, all animals with normal C3 levels survived. Twelve days after infection, mice lacking C3 had lost, on average, more than 20% of their body weight, whereas those with normal C3 levels lost no weight.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00245-y

EU Politicians: we don't of any tax evasion and see no way of checking it

My brother in Christ, there is a Wikipedia article detailing exactly how to do the Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich

Postdoctoral Research Scientist - Genome Biologist

John Innes Centre

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Scientist to join the group of Conrad Nieduszynski at the Earlham Institute, based in Norwich, UK

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/john-innes-centre-27778-postdoctoral-research-scientist-genome-biologist/?feed_id=71161

#bioinf...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/john-innes-centre-27778-postdoctoral-research-scientist-genome-biologist/?feed_id=71161

I know some of you think Bluesky is strictly for the birds, but it occasionally throws up some hot theropod content instead:

#Retractions matter for #law and public policy, not just for science.

"Papers used by judge to justify abortion pill suspension retracted"
https://retractionwatch.com/2024/02/06/papers-used-by-judge-to-justify-abortion-pill-suspension-retracted/

#Abortion #Mifepristone