Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Obituary for Jeffrey Pollard at Nature Cancer

"His landmark discovery in 2001 on the tumor-promoting role of macrophages in breast cancer propelled the cancer research field into studying the pro-tumoral roles of the immune compartment."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43018-023-00596-x

'Un estudio publicado recientemente en la revista BMJ Oncology calcula que la incidencia mundial de tumores entre menores de 50 años ha aumentado un 79% en tres décadas. '

https://elpais.com/salud-y-bienestar/2023-09-26/por-que-aumenta-el-cancer-entre-adultos-jovenes-los-tumores-en-menores-de-50-anos-crecen-casi-un-80-en-tres-decadas.html

'Here, 273 individuals with or without LC were enrolled in a cross-sectional study that included multi-dimensional immune phenotyping and unbiased machine learning methods to identify biological features associated with LC.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06651-y

"É para já um projecto-piloto, mas a correr bem poderá vir a ser uma solução para mitigar os efeitos da falta de água na agricultura, em concreto na viticultura, e tornar mais eficiente o uso de um bem tão escasso e precioso."

https://www.publico.pt/2023/09/25/terroir/noticia/douro-implementa-piloto-reutilizacao-agua-rega-vinhas-2064527

'These episodes made me experience first-hand a phenomenon that I was becoming increasingly familiar with: the vanishing of confidence in science. It seems almost a paradox: as our societies become more and more dependent on advanced technology based on scientific discoveries, people are becoming more and more suspicious of scientists.'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/25/tiktok-global-crisis-world-trust-scientists-online-attack?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

'Similarly, the poorest communes have generally voted much more for the left, especially in cities. That remains true to the present day. The (often intentional) confusion comes from the fact that commentators tend to associate the working classes only with blue-collar manufacturing workers, forgetting that the average wage of supermarket cashiers, restaurant staff, cleaners, care workers and other service industry employees has fallen below that of manufacturing workers for several decades now.'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/26/europe-right-research-left-voting-data-julia-cage-thomas-piketty?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

'In double-transgenic mice expressing NC-specific Cre and the Cre-driven diphtheria toxin receptor, plasma noradrenaline and adrenaline levels were significantly reduced, as were thymic T cell progenitors'
#immunology

https://journals.aai.org/jimmunol/article-abstract/doi/10.4049/jimmunol.2300045/265940/Depletion-of-Neural-Crest-Derived-Cells-Leads-to?redirectedFrom=fulltext

'To the readers of Molecular Cell who are eager to steer their molecular biology research toward sustainability, I offer this advice: embrace the potential of your expertise in advancing this area. As molecular biologists, we hold a crucial role in unraveling the intricacies of how biological systems can be leveraged to promote sustainable practices and biotechnologies.'

https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(23)00646-9?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"Facing a potential wave of coronavirus infections this fall and winter, relatively few hospitals — mostly in New York, Massachusetts and California — have restored mask mandates for patients and staff members. The vast majority have not, and almost none require them for visitors."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/health/hospitals-masking-mandates.html