Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'Every plant biologist has a story (usually multiple stories) of attempting to educate an animal biologist who does not know that plants have microtubules or cells or DNA. I once listened to a radio show about Darwin and his fascination with plants. My soul almost left my body when I heard the guest explain that Darwin would visit the plants in his greenhouse daily and “talk to them as if they were alive.”

https://unprofessoring.substack.com/p/why-study-plants

"By analysing single-cell sequencing data from patients receiving cell therapy products that are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration or are in clinical studies, we identify the presence of HHV-6-super-expressor CAR T cells in patients in vivo."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06704-2?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=nature&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1699461023

'What looks like the aftermath of a war zone is in fact an urban environmental disaster of allegedly man-made origin, which has forced an estimated 55,000 people to permanently evacuate their homes in the seaside city of Maceió, north-eastern Brazil.'

https://www.ft.com/content/35dbff19-26b7-4df8-ad78-2b2259ff7c8c

"This paper shows unique evidence on multidimensional inequality during Sweden’s COVID-19 pandemic, along four different social gradients. We consider nine diverse outcomes, which are rarely considered together and in the same statistical framework, given existing disciplinary boundaries. With few exceptions, direct and indirect burdens of the pandemic fell heavier upon more disadvantaged social groups."
#covid19 #covid #publichealth

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2303640120#sec-2

'Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil fell to a five-year low, the country’s National Institute of Space Research announced on Thursday, a sign that Brazil, which has the biggest share of tropical forest in the world, was making progress on its pledge to halt all deforestation by the end of the decade.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/climate/amazon-deforestation.html

Six minutes well spent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evi_i7R0SFQ

'La hipótesis de que una proteína pudiera ser el agente de una enfermedad infecciosa originó mucho escepticismo, pero eso no desanimó a Prusiner que, dos años más tarde, en 1984, volvía a sorprender a la comunidad científica mostrando que el gen que codifica tal proteína se encuentra en el genoma de muchos mamíferos, incluido el hombre. Resultaba increíble que el prion, presunto agente de gravísimas lesiones neurodegenerativas, fuera sintetizado normalmente en nuestro propio organismo.'

https://elpais.com/ciencia/materia-gris/2023-11-10/que-es-y-como-se-conocio-la-enfermedad-de-creutzfeldt-jakob.html

'Todas as áreas da investigação podem beneficiar deste tipo de iniciativas, havendo algumas, como é o caso das ciências biológicas, em que há uma identificação mais rápida de como este potencial pode ser aproveitado. Existe também a ideia de que os projectos de ciência-cidadã se limitam à recolha ou tratamento de dados, noção que é contestada por Cristina Luís. “As pessoas podem estar envolvidas noutras partes do processo científico – por exemplo, na geração da ideia do que se vai fazer”, explica.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/11/13/ciencia/noticia/cienciacidada-cientista-2069275