Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

“Las estrategias climáticas de la mayoría de las empresas están atascadas en compromisos ambiguos, planes de compensación que carecen de credibilidad” y programas que no contemplan todas las emisiones que genera cada multinacional'

https://elpais.com/clima-y-medio-ambiente/2023-02-12/greenwashing-un-estudio-advierte-de-los-enganosos-planes-climaticos-de-las-multinacionales-que-se-presentan-como-verdes.html

'Quem ler o texto fica com a sensação de que a extrema-direita nos caiu em cima por geração espontânea, obra e graça dos ventos da história, sem responsabilidades que possam ser assacadas. Não há referência ao desastre da liberalização dos mercados que marcou a governação dos partidos “da área política” de Augusto Santos Silva'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/02/13/opiniao/opiniao/farmacia-augusto-santos-silva-2038595

"Our results showed that the Omicron lineage had an accelerated mutation rate in the RBD region, while the mutation incidence in other genomic regions did not change dramatically over time."

#Preprint #Evolution #SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.06.527236v1

Interesting piece on companies bringing bringing #microbiome analysis into the clinic for their predictive value in cancer #immunotherapy. But take it with this major boulder of salt:

“I think that it’s certainly worth doing,” says Steven Salzberg, computational biologist at Johns Hopkins. “But you have to be really skeptical of what you find.” Before they become widely adopted, the field needs validation, replication and large gold standard trials.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-023-01677-z?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_content=organic&utm_campaign=CONR_JRNLS_AWA1_GL_SCON_SMEDA_NATUREPORTFOLIO

'Last July the first predictive clinical test based on the gut microbiome was approved in Europe. The test, called BiomeOne, was developed by Vienna-based biotech BiomeDx. It analyzes the DNA in gut microbes of patients with cancer and predicts who are most likely to have success with immunotherapy.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-023-01677-z?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_content=organic&utm_campaign=CONR_JRNLS_AWA1_GL_SCON_SMEDA_NATUREPORTFOLIO

"Research has repeatedly shown that Black mothers and babies have the worst childbirth outcomes in the United States. But this study is novel because it’s the first of its size to show how the risks of childbirth vary by both race and parental income, and how Black families, regardless of their socioeconomic status, are disproportionately affected."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/12/upshot/child-maternal-mortality-rich-poor.html

Portrait with poncho & bees.

(Photo by Karen Liu, who's on Mastodon somewhere)

"For a wealthy country, the United States is a dangerous place to be a newborn. But it is not equally risky for all babies."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/12/upshot/child-maternal-mortality-rich-poor.html

"We show that self-renewing DRGMacs contribute to promote axon regeneration. Using single-cell transcriptomics data and CellChat to simulate intercellular communication, we reveal that macrophages express the neuroprotective and glioprotective ligand prosaposin and communicate with SGCs via the prosaposin receptor GPR37L1."

#immunology #Macrophage #neuroscience #Regeneration

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2215906120

'Carlos Moedas faz o que a Igreja manda desde que o tema seja a construção civil. O altar-palco pode custar rios de dinheiro para receber o Papa Francisco, porque a Igreja quer. Mas a doutrina social da Igreja e a palavra de Francisco não valem um chavo se estiver em causa o acolhimento a imigrantes.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/02/12/politica/opiniao/ventura-nao-so-montenegro-tambem-ja-discurso-xenofobo-2038566