Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

For the record, I still think that @ImmunityCP should have picked the Malevich-inspired cover Madalena did for @lferreiramoita's Tetracycline paper

https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(20)30405-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS1074761320304052%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

https://madalenaparreira.com

"Because Big Pharma is unconvinced of the profit potential, they're abandoning gene therapies — not just for SCID but for scores of other rare diseases — even when they know the cures work. As a result, kids like Jakob will needlessly suffer and die, denied access to a permanent fix for their illnesses. What's keeping Jakob isolated from the rest of the world, unable to play with a dog or make a friend, isn't his disease. It's the marketplace."

https://www.businessinsider.com/bubble-boy-disease-cure-but-drug-companies-wont-provide-it-2022-7

Mais um ano

"I sorted the catalog by graduation year. A few rows down the first page, I saw the name of a UChicago physicist: Willetta Greene-Johnson, who defended her dissertation in 1987. I scrolled through the next page, and the next, and kept scrolling until I finally reached another UChicago entry in 2015. Her name was Cacey Stevens Bester.

That can’t be it, I thought. That meant I was on track to be number three."

https://www.wired.com/story/the-unwritten-laws-of-physics/

'Human coronaviruses, which cause colds, don’t trigger long-term immunity after infection. But studies suggest reinfection occurs on average about a year after a previous infection; one study suggests the interval is much longer. So how do we make sense of intervals of mere weeks?

Perlman doesn’t know, though he notes it’s not clear if these are reinfections or relapses, because the viruses from the sequential infections were not isolated and compared.'

#COVID #COVID19 #SarsCov2 #PublicHealth #Coronavirus #Virology

https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/27/covid19-pandemic-what-most-surprised-experts/

"Used widely in classrooms after its release, Gattaca remains as relevant as ever, a lens on modern uses of genetics. A quarter century later, we look back on the film, considering it from our perspective as geneticists. We organize our discussion around major scenes in the movie, taking up its depiction of genetic discrimination, genetic prediction, embryo selection, genetic investigations of crime, gene-by-environment interactions, and related topics. Along the way, we briefly review some technical aspects of contemporary genetics work related to Gattaca."

https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article/222/4/iyac142/6758250?searchresult=1

"But critics worry that if wealthy individuals dominate, future advances could create an elite not of designer babies but of designer elderly. Christopher Wareham, a bioethicist at Utrecht University who studies the ethics of ageing, says advances in longevity science risk widening the gaps between the rich and poor in health, wealth and power, including concerns that dictators could extend their lives."

https://www.ft.com/content/649b0446-698c-4363-82ad-0be5b5faa68f