Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'This past May Brazilian police officers and officials from the Ministry of Labor rescued a sixty-three-year-old woman from the private home where she had worked, without pay, benefits, or vacation time, for forty-seven years.'

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/09/17/the-base-of-the-labor-pyramid/

'Here, we have shown that IgA B cell receptor (BCR) is required for B cell fitness during the germinal center (GC) reaction in Peyer’s patches (PPs) and for generation of gut-homing plasma cells (PCs).'

#Immunology #MucosalImmunology

https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(23)00374-6

Checkpoint inhibitors beyond cancer: targets for restoring CD8 T cell function in people living with HIV.

"Our results demonstrated a marked and significant increase in TIGIT CD8+ T-cells, particularly within the central memory compartment, not ameliorated by long-term ART."

https://elifesciences.org/articles/83737

'For nearly a year, the painter — known for edgy images appropriated from art history and popular culture, as well as juxtapositions of voluptuous nudes and ham sandwiches — has attempted to defy conventional thinking about generative artificial intelligence by testing an A.I. program’s capacity to become a sophisticated creator of art.'

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/22/arts/design/david-salle-ai.html

'We found that Streptococcus pneumoniae, group B Streptococcus, and neonatal meningitis Escherichia coli commonly exploit a unique vesicle fusion mechanism to hitchhike on transferrin receptor (TfR) transcytosis to cross the BBB'

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2307899120

Can probiotics protect corals from problems like bleaching?

Lab experiments suggest that a dose of carefully selected microbes may boost the health of these reef-building creatures and their symbiotic algae

Marine microbiologist Raquel Peixoto explains, via @KnowableMag

🪸 Read the Q&A: https://arevie.ws/PeixotoQA
🪸 Read “Coral Probiotics: Premise, Promise, Prospects,” co-authored by Peixoto, in the Annual Review of Animal Biosciences https://arevie.ws/PeixotoReview

#KnowableMagazine

Discovery of #histidine methylation as a new post-#translational modification of #histone proteins.

#DNA

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-discovery-histidine-methylation-post-translational-modification.html

Hello #science Mastodon friends! I’m a postdoc at University of Geneva studying #membrane remodeling with #invitro #reconstitution cell biology tools. I love fluorescence #microscopy and #em. 
At the moment I’m actively studying #clathrin, #actin and #eisosome. I want to know more about membrane lipids and how they affect on membrane properties, protein functions and how membrane is deforming. #introduction

Sharing new preprint from our lab!
@biorxivpreprint

Led by Paul LaFosse, we show neurons in the awake 🧠can filter out inputs: attenuation-by-suppression.

Also: real neurons’ activation function share features w/ #ai systems (eg ChatGPT).

Comments welcome!

Thread. #neuroscience #ai #NeuroAI #gpt #chatgpt 1/15
Preprint- https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.13.557650v1

"Climate villain: scientists say Rupert Murdoch wielded his media empire to sow confusion and doubt" by Graham @readfearn and Adam Morton for The #Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/sep/23/rupert-murdoch-climate-change-denial

#Wisconsin Republicans Went to Extremes in #Gerrymandering. Now They’re Scrambling to Protect That Power.
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Heavily redrawn #election districts in the battleground state gave #Republicans firm control of the legislature — and the leeway to move aggressively against officials and judges they perceive as threats.

#Impeachment #Judges #Redistricting #Midwest #News #Politics

https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-gop-gerrymander-elections-janet-protasiewicz?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post