Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Brilliant.
Via @BartVerheggen on the birdsite.

As von der Leyen visits Israel, is the European Commission overstretching its powers?

Since the horrific attack by Hamas on innocent Israeli civilians last weekend, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has expressed unambiguous support for Israel, without member states’ mandate, and apparently regardless of how Israel chooses to respond.

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2023/10/13/as-von-der-leyen-visits-israel-is-the-commission-overstretching-its-powers/

#EU #EuropeanCommission #VonDerLeyen #Israel #Palestine #Gaza

https://goomics.net/379

Not sure what those who advocate for the use of ChatGPT in scientific writing have in mind. It is the very act of writing that helps us think about the connections and implications of our results, identify gaps, and devise further experiments and controls.

Any science project that can be written up by a bot from tables of results and associated literature isn’t the kind of science that I’d want to do to begin with.

Can’t imagine completing a manuscript not knowing what comes next, because the writing was done automatically instead of me putting extensive thought into it.

And why would anyone bother to read it if the authors couldn’t be bothered to write it. Might as well put up the tables and figures into an archive online, stamp a DOI on it, and move on.

#ScientificPublishing #science #ChatGPT

🫘 🧪 Renal biomarkers can be used to define/identify of subclinical acute kidney injury, frequent & severe condition with prognosis equivalent to #AKI, as defined by KDIGO criteria based on ⬆️ serum creatinine: ancillary analysis of FROG-ICU study 🐸
Results free to read on @ICM #FOAMcc
🔓 https://rdcu.be/dlsf9
⬇️ Below visual abstract

extracellular vesicles in #renal disease - diagnosis and therapy https://www.nature.com/articles/s41581-022-00586-9 #medmastodon

@cyrilpedia I'm a supporter of FDA generally ... its role is vital.

Given its known mutagenic mechanism of action and the availability of a safer and efficacious alternative (Paxlovid)... it's a mystery to me why this drug was authorized by #FDA .

"The emergence of variants of concern complicated the relatively simple relationship between attaining protection after immunization with vaccines based on the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 strain (5). It is critical to disentangle the issue of waning immunity from immune escape by emerging variants."
#COVID #Covid19 #Vaccines #Immunology #SarsCov2

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh2712

"However, it remains unknown how JH3 degradation results in neurodevelopmental outcomes that translate into distinct worker behaviors, how this is accomplished at the molecular and cellular level, and whether differential regulation of JH3 levels early in life is sufficient to accomplish lifelong Major-Minor division of labor in C. floridanus."

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00856-5

"But for all that progress, a disparity is emerging: Women between the ages of 35 and 54 are being diagnosed with lung cancer at higher rates than men in that same age group, according to a report published Thursday by researchers at the American Cancer Society. The disparity is small — one or two more cases among every 100,000 women in that age range than among men — but it is significant enough that researchers want to know more."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/well/live/lung-cancer-women-screening.html

"Highlighting the role of repeated immune responses, our results confirm the role of REL in the germinal center reaction and provide evidence supporting the fact that genetic deregulation of c-Rel expression is most likely a primary event in the aggressive transformation of GC B-cells."
#Preprint #GerminalCenter #Immunology

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.10.561773v1

"The knob interaction with SARS-CoV-2 spike was revealed by electron microscopy, X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry and established ultralong CDR H3-derived knobs as the smallest known recombinant independent antigen-binding fragment"

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2303455120

'If the impresario P T Barnum was right to say that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, then the paper just published in Nature by Sara Walker of Arizona State University, Lee Cronin of the University of Glasgow, and their coworkers has been a runaway success.'

https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/will-the-assembly-theory-imbroglio-do-anything-for-evolution/4018232.article

'We have approached a moment of calamitous escalation, and find ourselves at a critical crossroads. It is imperative that all parties — and those with influence over them — do everything possible to avoid fresh violence or spillover of the conflict to the West Bank and the wider region.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/opinion/israel-gaza-united-nations.html

'Rather, the work bears the name of Keyserling’s resident harpsichordist, the 14-year-old Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, whose equally sleepless nights were spent playing the variations for his master from an adjoining room.'

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/oct/06/vikingur-olafsson-pianist-on-bach-goldberg-variations?ref=thebrowser.com

'In a peer-reviewed study published in Nature on Tuesday, researchers from Edinburgh university, Imperial College London and the Pirbright Institute used gene editing techniques to alter the section of chicken DNA responsible for producing ANP32A, a protein that the flu virus takes over to replicate itself.'

https://www.ft.com/content/5b7e4ac4-2df7-4948-a0be-cb9395b4af63

"This war, like others before it, will end sooner or later. I am not sure I will come back from it alive, but I do know that a minute after the war is over, both Israelis and Palestinians will have to reckon with the leaders who led them to this moment."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/opinion/israel-military-war.html

New article! Read Native microbiome dominates over host factors in shaping the probiotic genetic evolution in the gut https://www.nature.com/articles/s41522-023-00447-8?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon in npj Biofilms