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"Although there is widespread agreement that practicing reproducible research is a good idea, there is equally widespread variation in both how to practice reproducible research and what practicing reproducible research constitutes"

jci.org/articles/view/173741

'A comprehensive meta-analysis revealed that climate change could aggravate more than 50% of known human pathogens. Unfortunately, this is happening now.'

science.org/doi/full/10.1126/s

“Everything was so new — the whole idea of going into space was new and daring. There were no textbooks, so we had to write them.”
— Katherine Johnson

Image Credit: NASA, NASA Langley Research Center

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'A Florida elementary school has prompted outrage for singling out its Black students to attend a special assembly identifying them, as a group, as a “problem” because of standardized test performances.'

theguardian.com/us-news/2023/a

'We identified an EOAD family in Flanders-Belgium in which AD segregates in an autosomal dominant manner, though known mutations in the causal genes were excluded. Follow-up genetic investigation resulted in the discovery of a deleterious missense mutation in the TLR9 gene.'

nature.com/articles/s41380-023

Holy shit, they're actually holding the only Black person in jail because they are considered a flight risk, but the guy with the private plane and properties and connections overseas is not.

apple.news/A-wH6EMxSTS2vTTn-u6

Several schools in Arkansas are defiantly teaching AP African American history. The state has warned them that the students will earn no credits.

Republicans continue to describe Black history as "indoctrination" and "teaching children to hate America" -- showing that they might benefit from the course themselves.

Intrinsic severity of a virus is a byproduct of many traits, a product of selection on other features. Any attempt to guess the intrinsic severity of BA.2.86 (within reasonable parameters) is just that-a guess. Will be a while before we can measure it. It is far, far too early to evaluate the potential of this variant. And it is a timely reminder of the role of evolution in the ongoing pandemic.

'Surprisingly, the protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium emerged second only to rotavirus as a cause of moderate-to-severe diarrhea in children under one year old and continued to be a risk factor in older age groups. While vaccines are available for rotavirus, for Cryptosporidium species there is no vaccine and the only FDA-approved therapy—nitazoxanide—is ineffective in malnourished children and immunocompromised individuals'

jci.org/articles/view/171966

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