Hello world! 📢
The #Bioconductor EuroBioc 2023 conference will be in Ghent, Belgium 🇧🇪 on the 20, 21, 22 September 2023. More details, including keynote speakers and calendar at https://eurobioc2023.bioconductor.org/
Oh, and abstract submissions are already open!
If you have cell counting fatigue and don't have a fancy and pricey automated cell counter, check it out! /x
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iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hemocytometer-sidekick/id1341492266
#hemocytometer #cellcounting #biology #science #apps #microsoft #maui #xamarin #android #ios
First thing the Republicans do when they get in charge is purge any experts or responsible ppl from interfering with their destructive, uninformed antics. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/02/politics/house-vote-ilhan-omar-committees/index.html
One could call this a significant drop.
"The latest statistics from the European Commission reveal that Cambridge University, which netted €483m (£433m) over the seven years of the last European research funding programme, Horizon 2020, has not received any funding in the first two years of the new Horizon Europe programme.
Meanwhile, Oxford, which won €523m from the earlier programme, has only been awarded €2m to date from Horizon Europe."
On this day in 2002: Max Perutz died, Austrian Jewish refugee, won 1962 #NobelPrize for uncovering haemoglobin structure #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 2017: Gene therapy shown to restore hearing in deaf mice. See http://whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/timeline #ThisDayInBiotech
'With permutations of temperature and pressure outside what generally occurs on Earth, water molecules can be pushed into other crystal structures. Scientists now know of 20 crystalline forms of water. The 20th form of ice was discovered last year.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/science/new-ice-glass.html
#introduction
Hello #neuro peeps!
A bit late to the party but finally here and hoping to reconnect.
I'm currently a postdoctoral #neuroscientist at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (SWC) at #UCL and will soon open my lab at the Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience (PDN) at #Cambridge University. My primary research interest is the #neurobiology of #selfmotion and #navigation. I use cellular and systems approaches including #neurophysiology, #circuit dissection and #behaviour to understand how the mammalian #brain (mouse model) constructs the sense of self-motion and orientation from various incoming information, particularly #vision and the #vestibular sense.
Mystery of #fatal ‘staggering #disease’ unravelled: novel #rustrela virus causes severe #meningoencephalomyelitis in domestic #cats https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36204-w
Review at EJI
"Dysregulation or overproduction of IL-6 leads to autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), in which Th17 cells are considered to be the primary cause of pathology. Given the critical role of IL-6 in altering the balance between Treg and Th17 cells, controlling IL-6 activities is potentially an effective approach in the treatment of various autoimmune and inflammatory diseases."
#Immunology #Treg #Th17 #Autoimmunity
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eji.201040391
Ancient caviar
"Few families of plants or animals have survived more geological upheaval than the Acipenseridae. Sixty-six million years ago, when the Chicxulub asteroid hit what is today known as the Yucatán, Acipenseriformes swam the warm sea that bisected North America."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/02/magazine/they-outlasted-the-dinosaurs-can-they-survive-us.html
After the February 5, 1783, #earthquake that hit the Italian provinces of Reggio Calabria & Sicily, a 30 km long fault escarpment was observed along the Aspromonte mountain. This is the first drawing of a ruptured fault ever published.
#NewStudy “Vaccines were generally estimated to be effective against severe outcomes caused by SARS-CoV-2 Omicron infection, this analysis found that protection in older patients was more likely to wane 6 months after the second dose. Hence, a booster dose is recommended for older patients to restore immunity” #covid19 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2800935
Raab is the nightmare ignorant bully boss we all loathe.
Dominic Raab: more civil servants in bullying complaint than previously thought
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/05/dominic-raab-more-civil-servants-in-bullying-complaint-than-previously-thought?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Cover image by Madalena Parreira for JEM in 2016, based on a paper by Kuchmiy et al, "NLRP2 controls age-associated maternal fertility"
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com