Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
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Diversity and Evolutionary History of Ti Plasmids of “tumorigenes” Clade of Rhizobium spp. and Their Differentiation from Other Ti and Ri Plasmids https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad133 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper
'The extrinsic incubation period (EIP), defined as the time it takes for malaria parasites in a mosquito to become infectious to a vertebrate host, is one of the most influential parameters for malaria transmission but remains poorly understood.'
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Happy (or not?) #MicroscopyMonday!
I made a chart out of all the amoeba faces I've found to put on the lab fridge. Unfortunately, happy faces are not an observable phenotype for Naegleria.
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"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way... As a man is, so he sees."
On this day in 1799, Blake wrote his most beautiful letter – a timeless defense of the creative imagination https://t.co/wRFV1IRigC
'The elucidation of the lipid metabolic pathways that promote innate immune memory contributes to our understanding of trained immunity and may help identify therapeutic tools and targets for the modulation of innate immune responses.'
#immunology #InnateImmunity #Preprint
'Meanwhile, scientific interest in vagus nerve stimulation is exploding, with studies investigating it as a potential treatment for everything from obesity to depression, arthritis and Covid-related fatigue. So, what exactly is the vagus nerve, and is all this hype warranted?'
"An influential expert panel has given its highest recommendation to an expanded menu of H.I.V. prevention strategies for adults and adolescents, a move that will require private insurers to cover the drugs without a co-pay or deductible under the Affordable Care Act."
#HIV #publichealth
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Sabrina Holland and Gianluca Gallo revisit the relationship between actin dynamics and energy homeostasis in growing neurons, discovering that cytoskeletal dynamics do not impose an energy drain.
Highlight: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/16/e136_e1602/325934/Revisiting-actin-dynamics-and-energy-homeostasis
Article: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/16/jcs261356/325925/Actin-cytoskeletal-dynamics-do-not-impose-an
#CellBiology #cytoskeleton #energy #actin
"On Tuesday, an international team announced in the journal Cell that they had identified a potential new antibiotic lurking unnoticed in the sandy soil of North Carolina. The compound, called clovibactin, employs an unusual method of killing bacteria that makes it tough for targets to develop resistance. While clinical trials in humans are several years away, the finding is a glimmer of hope in an increasingly drug-resistant world."
#microbiology #antibioticresistance #antibiotics #drugdevelopment
https://www.ft.com/content/a8d62524-3f3f-4d61-a27f-a689a13f9232
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"With these questions growing in urgency, and answers elusive, a group of scientists has recently called for AI companies to start investing seriously in consciousness research1.
Against this background, we thought it would be a good moment to put some of the big questions in this area to some leading experts on consciousness and/or higher cognition in humans and other animals."
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00852-7
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“Just like Omicron was a little out of left field, this BA.2.86 is little out of left field,” says Ashish Jha, a public-health researcher at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and the former White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator. “There is enough here to get us all to start paying attention.”
#covid19 #covid #sarscov2 #publichealth
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This library looks amazing:
"Con 4.000 metros cuadrados, la sensación de amplitud es mayor en el interior que en el exterior. Y facilita crear puntos de mayor o menor intimidad gracias a espacios con cortinas."
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Propaganda from the wealthy has not JUST promoted neoliberal "markets" over humanity and democracy.
It has also misinformed the public about what government itself is.
In a surprising twist, another MiniMussolini turns out to be a crook.
'Mr Bolsonaro, 68, has become ensnared in a series of investigations into fraud and election tampering that have already landed some of his closest allies in jail and that, over the past several weeks, appear to be closing in on him.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/world/americas/bolsonaro-brazil-arrest-watches.html
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'Sharing widely read content, by itself, isn’t a problem. But it becomes a problem when attention-getting, controversial content is prioritized by design.'
cc @joanagsa
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'To address these challenges and foster a more coherent approach to research integrity and misconduct in Europe, the EMBO Policy Programme explored the establishment of a permanent pan-European body for research integrity.'
#ResearchIntegrity #SciencePolicy
The project has put out a report. Read Sandra Bendiscioli's blog post about it at FEBS
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'The World Health Organization’s new chief scientist has urged countries to share work on vaccines, diagnostics and treatments for the 20 most dangerous pathogens to avoid the “deep scars” caused by inequitable access to countermeasures at the height of the #Covid19 crisis.'
#publichealth
(ICYMI the new WHO chief scientist is Jeremy Farrar)
https://www.ft.com/content/91ab571b-d487-4210-af18-8aa2af1da7d5
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New blog post: Reflections on the viral thread by Dr Louise Raw spreading fake news about unethically performed radiation experiments on Punjabi women in the 1950's http://daniellakens.blogspot.com/2023/08/reflections-on-viral-thread-by-dr.html
'La campaña de vacunación frente a la covid comenzará en otoño junto con la de la gripe, enfocada a los colectivos más vulnerables a la enfermedad. Pero todavía no está claro qué fármacos se utilizarán.'
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How do we balance paying attention to the external world vs our internal thoughts?
The basal forebrain & dorsal attention network dynamically interact with the hippocampus to balance external and internal attention.
Super proud of grad student and first author Craig Poskanzer for his tenacity in leading this project!
#neuroscience #psychology #memory
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2023/08/18/JNEUROSCI.0029-23.2023
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
