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Meet the ASAPbio Fellows!
Gracielle Higino is a program coordinator for the Computational Biodiversity Science and Services (BIOS²) training program based at the Université de Sherbrooke.
Gracielle believes the Fellows program will expand the way she thinks and advocates for open publications, and help her implement some projects in her work aimed at graduate students.

"The bulk of 2023’s retractions were from journals owned by Hindawi, a London-based subsidiary of the publisher Wiley (see ‘A bumper year for retractions’). So far this year, Hindawi journals have pulled more than 8,000 articles, citing factors such as “concerns that the peer review process has been compromised” and “systematic manipulation of the publication and peer-review process”, after investigations prompted by internal editors and by research-integrity sleuths who raised questions about incoherent text and irrelevant references in thousands of papers."

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

Andre Braugher is hilarious in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, but I first got to know his work through Braugher's performance as Frank Pembleton in Homicide: Life on the Street. It's a show worth revisiting, not least to watch a very talented actor at the top of his game.

AI in emergency situations, the links between ligament injuries and the hormonal profile of female athletes, and DIY skateparks for wellbeing: the SNSF is supporting 35 research projects as part of its first call for projects on health and wellbeing. snf.ch/en/czXVvdlGj9DteKfm/new

'SARS-CoV-2, like many viruses, generates syncytia. Using SARS-CoV-2 and S (S) expressing recombinant vesicular stomatitis and influenza A viruses, we show that S-mediated syncytia formation provides resistance to interferons in cultured cells, human small airway-derived air-liquid interface cultures and hACE2 transgenic mice.'

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

Bill Barr’s daughter worked at Treasury to protect Trump’s tax returns, and loans at Deutsche Bank.

Rudy Giuliani’s son got $363,000 to be WH sports liaison with no experience.

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner used the WH as $640 million bonanza.

It was never about Hunter Biden.

Vehicles:

"A noncationic lipid nanoparticle was constructed for mRNA delivery with simple, convenient, and repeatable preparation technology, negligible inflammatory and cytotoxicity side effects, high gene transfection efficiency, and spleen-targeting delivery to induce immunity for disease treatments"

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2311

"En 2012, tras más de diez años estudiando la metástasis más agresiva, decidí cambiar el rumbo, orientar el laboratorio más hacia la metástasis latente, invisible. Llegué a la convicción de que esa es la fase de la metástasis que más vale la pena estudiar. No por ser más oscura, sino porque entenderla en sus detalles nos va a proporcionar nuevas avenidas, nuevas oportunidades para prevenir la metástasis. No para tratarla."

elpais.com/ciencia/2023-12-12/

Axel Springer will allow OpenAI to train AI models using content from the German publishing giant’s outlets such Politico and Business Insider, in a landmark deal for the media industry ft.com/content/7cd439bc-29cd-4

An exciting development for a new Covid vaccine: inhaled single dose induces strong mucosal immunity and protection in multiple species, including non-human primates, and prevents transmission across all variants assessed

nature.com/articles/s41586-023

Pot & lid from @hunchbacksociety

@madparreira.bsky.socialhttps://madalenaparreira.com/Hunchbacksociety

"A presença dos mosquitos Aedes em Portugal, como a detecção do mosquito-tigre-asiático (Aedes Albopictus) em Lisboa em Setembro deste ano, trouxe uma atenção reforçada ao perigo de instalação destes mosquitos, que podem transmitir doenças como dengue, Zika ou chikungunya, no território português."

publico.pt/2023/12/12/ciencia/

Rings a bell...

"As the pandemic wore on, many grim outcomes I warned about came to pass, and most societal changes I hoped for did not. I watched two successive administrations make avoidable mistakes, and then make them anew with each successive surge or variant"

nytimes.com/2023/12/11/opinion

T-cell engineering therapy (CAR-T) may have cured 15 people with 3 different autoimmune diseases (Lupus, SS, IIM).

In drug-free remission, ~2 years after treatment

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

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