Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

I wonder if the vax plan will charge? https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/covid-vaccine-ministers-booster-jabs-over-50s-protect-nhs-winter-2621144

'These results illuminate an FcγRIIB-mediated, cell-autonomous mechanism of CD8+ T cell suppression, which limits the efficacy of checkpoint inhibitors during antitumor immune responses in vivo.'
#Immunology #Immunotherapy

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.add1868?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed

'Saura y su equipo sabían que el tumor no se transmite a través de la lactancia, pero a partir de la inquietud de esa paciente, se les “encendió una bombilla”, explica la oncóloga: quizás en esa muestra de leche había ya señales del cáncer que ayudasen a la investigación.'

https://elpais.com/salud-y-bienestar/2023-09-14/una-investigacion-abre-la-puerta-a-la-deteccion-precoz-del-cancer-de-mama-a-traves-de-la-leche-materna.html

The best covers are *always* the rejected covers - like this one spotted at @victoralab (Rockefeller) for the LIPSTIC cell-cell contact tracing method.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25442

For your monarchist friends - or for your Jacobin friend's Greek wedding!
By @hunchbacksociety #ceramics

#pottery #handmade #artgallery #artmastodon

https://madalenaparreira.com/Hunchbacksociety

With autumn and the virus season approaching, viral levels will go up. We see this in wastewater analysis such as this in the Netherlands. More virus is not great but also does not predict severe disease and hospitalisations, immunity will prevent that.

Deeply troubled to be going in to an emergency HEC to take decisions on behalf of branches and industrial action, without input from a branch delegate meeting in advance of it. Also incredibly troubled that this HEC can be called with less than 24 hours notice, but trying to put one together to implement congress policy on a summer reballot had to take so many weeks that the gap in mandate became inevitable.

Finally made an #ImageJ macro to generate rotated zoom boxes!

'Gonsalves’s father recently died after a long descent into dementia. “We need better drugs for neurodegenerative diseases,” he told me. “But the way to do it is not to say, ‘Open the floodgates of the F.D.A.’ ”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/26/relyvrio-als-fda-approval

RIP

"You can’t reach an audience on X," Dave Karpf wrote last week. "You can’t organize on X. You can’t follow breaking news on X. The people who made Twitter fun have all given up. There’s nothing worth sticking around for anymore."

https://defector.com/linda-yaccarino-is-the-last-funny-twitter-bit-left

'Yet, as microbiome experts Alan Walker of Aberdeen university and Lesley Hoyles of Nottingham Trent University pointed out recently, in the journal Nature Microbiology, all the excitement “has unfortunately also brought with it hype and entrenched certain misconceptions.” Their article knocks down 12 myths about the microbiome, ranging from exaggerations about its size and weight to misconceptions about the association between some microbial patterns and disease.'

https://www.ft.com/content/00619403-fd1a-483b-b67a-ac84112553b2

As Florida reports more new #COVID19 hospitalizations than any other state, #GOP sociopath #RonDeSantis demands more sickness and death as surely as if he wrapped his cold, creepy hands around the throats of his constituents and started squeezing. https://wapo.st/3LltbuZ

When facing the "All we need is STEM!" approach to education, my usual response is:

Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem -- which did we fail?