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'In some cases, GWAS results have highlighted previously underappreciated mechanisms contributing to pathogenesis. For example, genetic variants associated with AD risk are enriched in genes and enhancers (regions in the genome that control gene expression) acting in myeloid cells, likely microglia. This indicated the important role of innate immune cells in AD. Therefore, the enrichment of risk variants in specific biological pathways can deepen our mechanistic understanding of neurodegenerative diseases and may even point to new therapeutic targets.'

science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

If you are drafting figures for a scientific paper or presentation, remember that scidraw.io/ exists: a repository of free SVG cartoons for science.

#SciDraw is supported by the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre.

All content on SciDraw is shared under creative commons license (CC-BY) unless stated otherwise.

#inkscape #SVG #science

Congratulations! 🎉 Prof. Tatiana Ilyina, scientist and group leader of the Ocean Biogeochemistry group at our institute, was recently appointed a professorship at Universität Hamburg and @hereon. With her new cross-institutional working group she will address new frontiers in modeling the #carbon cycle in the #Earth system. 🌊

📚Read more about her work here: mpimet.mpg.de/en/communication

Bioinformatics Research Assistant - WashU Neurosurgery & Genetics

Washington University in St. Louis

WashU School of Medicine is seeking highly motivated candidates for a research assistant position in #bioinformatics, #genomics #single-cell.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: jobrxiv.org/job/washington-uni...
jobrxiv.org/job/washington-uni

Jim Jordan thinks he can harass Fani Willis? That is not a contest of equals.

“Your notion that different standards of justice should apply to a select group of people is offensive. Here is another reality you must face: Those who wish to avoid felony charges in Fulton County, Georgia — including violations of Georgia RICO law — should not commit felonies in Fulton County, Georgia.”

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'Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, chief executive of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, which has the majority of voting rights in the company, described executives asking: “Why would we do such a trial with a high risk of maybe not showing anything? Maybe it’s just the anti-diabetic effect that is responsible for the benefits we’ve seen in diabetes. What if we don’t see anything in obesity, and the trial costs hundreds of millions of dollars?” 

ft.com/content/d951de90-11cc-4

'In addition to the complications that can occur during the acute phase of a Covid infection, there appears to be an increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and other problems up to a year after an infection. Experts are now trying to understand why.'

nytimes.com/2023/09/07/well/li

'Brain drain': Nearly half of Florida's college faculty say they're looking for jobs in new states

#florida

rawstory.com/ron-desantis-flor

“Esse cenário começou a ser previsto em 2014/15 ou 2016. No tempo da crise, cerca de metade dos professores contratados que estavam na escola foram embora. Até foram aconselhados a emigrar porque não havia lugar para eles. O efeito nefasto é que as universidades e as Escolas Superiores de Educação começaram a ficar sem candidatos e a fechar os cursos."

publico.pt/2023/09/07/sociedad

#OTD in 1911. French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum but was released a week later.

The theft of the Mona Lisa was perpetrated by Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian house painter who acted alone and was only caught two years later when he tried to sell the painting in Florence. via @wikipedia

#art #literature

'On Tuesday, a judge in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will begin considering their arguments at a trial that cuts to the heart of a long-simmering question: Did today’s tech giants become dominant by breaking the law?'

nytimes.com/2023/09/06/technol

'A longstanding debate persists regarding whether language and action share the same neural basis, with 2 opposing views. One view proposes that language emerged from action expressed in communicative gestures, and thus they share a common basis [5–7]. The other view sees language as a cognitive ability independent of action'

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/

'We’re speaking out—despite pressure from the WVU administration to remain silent—because we’re impelled by our responsibility as employees and stewards of this public university to safeguard its integrity and its future.'

bostonreview.net/articles/an-o

Monique Worrell sues DeSantis, as she should. The second elected prosecutor DeSantis has attempted to oust, Worrell’s suspension order was even more vague than the one issued against Andrew Warren.

@Montaagge "The natural evolution of SARS-CoVs, in addition to spread-out more effectively by air, is to reduce the response capacity of the immune system to persist longer in the host, causing Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome." sciencedirect.com/science/arti

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