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"Drosophila suzukii has evolved a novel preference for laying its eggs in a wide variety of ripe fruits (for instance, strawberries, raspberries, cherries…), in contrast to most other Drosophila species, such as D. melanogaster, which prefer to lay eggs on fermented and rotten fruits. This novel behavior is causing significant damage to the fruit industry as D. suzukii spreads around the world"

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/

Should neuroscientists stay on X or go? Let’s ask a bunch of people who have decided to stay. Voices are missing here.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/fu

"The disruption this year in supplies of key chemotherapy drugs has realized the worst fears of patients — and of the broader health system — because some people with aggressive cancers have been unable to get the treatment they need."

nytimes.com/2023/12/19/health/

#PostdocJobs
If you are interested (or know anyone who might be) to work with me on optical computing, and have experience with fs lasers, take a look at jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr
(and contact me!)
#Optics #Physics

Talking about diseases; developing a patient and public-centered phenotype model from social media data medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

2023 saw many important advances in the #lifesciences.

As the year draws to a close, we’ve looked back over the #research we have published and chosen some editorial highlights from across the breadth of #PLOSBiology’s scope.

plos.io/4avZmTl

"Our study reveals an imbalance in nitrogen-recycling bacteria and, specifically, C. freundii in relapsed multiple myeloma patients. We established a critical role for C. freundii in inducing bortezomib resistance."

cell.com/cell-metabolism/fullt

Maybe *literal* inbreeding is not the best way to intelligent elites?

"The aristocracy and celebrities are in thrall to medical quackery that while useless can be far from harmless"

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

"In 2021, Gemaque and several other women from her community were invited to take part in a chocolate-making workshop organised by the Amazonian chocolatier César De Mendes. Inspired by the experience, eight of them got together to form the Cacao Guardians. What began as an experiment in someone’s kitchen is now a registered business with an artisanal factory that produces 130kg of chocolate a month."

theguardian.com/global-develop

REALLY good to see this study showing that like adults, vaccines protect children against risk of getting long covid. If only Long Covid were considered in UK decisions re vaccine eligibility. nature.com/articles/d41586-023

'Now that Budapest cannot rely on Warsaw shielding it, they should make clear that triggering Article 7, suspending Hungary’s EU voting rights, is again possible, even if some states are queasy about using this “nuclear option”.

ft.com/content/52c67ea0-876c-4

'But Bloch’s experience was different because, in addition to sustenance and care, his helpers brought him pens, glue, newspapers and other printed materials that he used to produce a startling publication: his own weekly, satirical poetry magazine.'

nytimes.com/2023/12/18/arts/de

'Tinto ran an influential early study of the vaccine, starting in 2019 (M. S. Datoo et al. Lancet397, 1809–1818; 2021). “He led the trial that really, to people in the field, showed that this vaccine was going to be different,” says Adrian Hill, a vaccinologist at the University of Oxford, UK, who oversaw the development of R21.'

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

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