Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"Patients with Crohn’s disease have increased levels of anti-S. cerevisiae antibodies (which detect mannan, a common component of the fungal cell wall. Measurement of these antibodies can be used to distinguish between Crohn’s disease & ulcerative colitis"
#Immunology #MucosalImmunology

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41575-023-00816-w?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Closing libraries is how you burn books without lighting a match.

https://www.publico.pt/2023/08/05/mundo/noticia/revolta-toalhas-grecia-quer-praias-gente-2059286

There's something delicious about a brilliant, Nobel-prize-winning scientist being wrong.

I'm reading Richard Feynman's (throroughly enjoyable) "Six Easy Pieces" (https://amzn.to/45ie510). In a fine bit of epistemic trespassing, he decides to sum up biology. This is how he starts...

Tricky Dick strikes again:

'Nixon’s advisers reportedly coined the phrase “pulling a Nixon” for the oenophile president’s predilection for pouring official guests vin ordinaire while surreptitiously drinking First Growth Claret.’

https://www.ft.com/content/b31ce09e-6909-4600-a87e-7942a84b1439

Very interesting thoughts happening: "In vivo hematopoietic stem cell modification by mRNA delivery"
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade6967

Evaluation of protein extraction methods to improve meta‐proteomics analysis of treated wastewater biofilms | https://analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pmic.202300191?af=R #proteomics

Postdoctoral fellow in the experimental and/or computational study

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/cold-spring-harbor-laboratory-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-in-the-experimental-and-or-computational-study/?feed_id=53855

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA #UnitedS...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/cold-spring-harbor-laboratory-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-in-the-experimental-and-or-computational-study/?feed_id=53855

I will die on this hill:
We will not fix our democracy until we start doing criminal prosecutions of the wealthy again. Not just weakly using DPAs and fines
and prosecutions of corporations.

Musk and the hospital execs in the news today must face threats of *jail*.

No fine will ever break a billionaire— they just pay out some funds and move on. But criminal charges can take down their lifestyle and hold them truly accountable.
#musk #doj #trump #indictment

The rank corruption of Clarence Thomas continues to be exposed, one sleazy item at a time.

How are we learning about this? Not from law enforcement or others who have subpoena power (e.g. Congress), but by journalists.

Latest example, from the NY Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/us/clarence-thomas-rv-anthony-welters.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=US%20News

Public health in action! Though it shouldn't need to be if the water was clean enough!

#Ecoli #sewage #water #triathlon #diarrhoea #diarrhea #ukpolitics #publichealth #microbiology #infectiousdiseases #medicine

Investigation after 57 swimmers fall sick and get diarrhoea at Sunderland world triathlon championship race

> Athletes competing on stretch of UK coastline where reduced water quality at centre of dispute over sewage discharges

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/05/investigation-after-57-world-triathlon-championship-swimmers-fall-sick-and-get-diarrhoea-in-sunderland-race?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

'Imitating each hormone individually can lead to weight loss, Tschöp says. But together, they work synergistically to keep each other in check. GIP activation suppresses GLP-1 activation’s side effects, and both of these hormone copycats stimulate insulin, preventing glucagon from raising blood glucose too high.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02445-4

“Tellingly, though, the lawsuit didn’t allege theft or its civil-law cousin — “conversion,” in lawyers’ language. It alleged only unjust enrichment. That’s probably because under current law and precedent, proving that Thermo Fisher Scientific or Johns Hopkins took anything from Lacks illegally would have been difficult or impossible..”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/opinion/henrietta-lacks-cells-property.html

"La derecha tiene en EE UU, no sé si en España sucede lo mismo, una maquinaria. Facebook ha dado a esa maquinaria una difusión que no habría tenido de otra manera”.

https://elpais.com/tecnologia/2023-08-05/sandra-gonzalez-bailon-facebook-ha-dado-una-maquinaria-de-difusion-a-la-derecha-que-no-habria-tenido-de-otro-modo.html

'Este espetáculo ignominioso é tanto mais chocante quando decorre durante uma maioria de um partido de matriz laica e social-democrata e sob os auspícios delirantes de um presidente que passa a vida a pregar sobre transparência, escrutínio democrático e uma correta alocação dos recursos, mas, miguelisticamente, esquece tudo isso estando em causa a sua fação religiosa.'

https://www.dn.pt/opiniao/-o-tao-velho-portugal-desta-jornada-16788142.html

‘Interstellar shout’ restores #NASA contact with lost #Voyager 2 spacecraft

https://wapo.st/45itePx

#science #exploraton