Universal seropositivity, markers of recurrent reactivation, and a convergent T-cell response implicate cytomegalovirus in Susac syndrome researchsquare.com/article/r…

Did you know a discovery made during malaria research could someday help people with alpha-gal syndrome? In this video, I share how NIH researchers identified rare antibodies that may help prevent allergic reactions associated with this tick bite-linked condition. It's a great example of how research can lead to unexpected discoveries with the potential to improve lives. Learn more: bit.ly/4cnX4Z5

Taking viral genome sequences off public databases does ~not~ reduce risk of synthetic viral pandemics by >90% Information hiding will not reduce security risks — the only thing that will actually work is vastly improving our technological capabilities that allow us to produce effective countermeasures with rapid response Obfuscation is not a meaningful security strategy, as we've learned from decades of cybersecurity practices. It only serves to harm defensive efforts and slow our ability to craft responses Also see the history of things like Napster and Limewire, pirate bay, Library of Genesis, torrents, etc; Information cannot be prevented from being shared through the world. Attempting to obfuscate it will only harm beneficial defensive efforts

wtf is this way to handle mathematicians work and scientific communication TLDR: Leven and Tristan worked over several months on one of the Millenium Prize Problems with various AIs to reach final interesting results. OpenAI apparently heard about it in the last days and prompted their latest models to work on the direction Leven and Tristan found fruitful. They then tried to push for controlling communication of the result and dropping Leven from authorship with some very bad taste social pressure. Hope this is not a glimpse of the future we’ll get in science research with these dominating players playing marketing games hurtful for the real scientific community.

Beep boop bop, engineered the singer PIXL colony picker into a python library, and have Claude operate the machine (gonna PR to @pylabrobot when I can) Fully automated yeast engineering here we come

Doctors X-rayed pregnant women routinely in the 1950s to check which way round the baby was lying. Nobody thought it was dangerous. Alice Stewart noticed childhood leukaemia rising sharply in Britain and set out to find why. She and her team interviewed the mothers of 1,400 children who had died of cancer, and 1,400 mothers whose children were alive, and asked them the same questions. The pattern showed up in the first 35 pairs. Children who had died were about twice as likely to have been X-rayed in the womb, and a single scan at the dose used then appeared to be enough. She published in 1956, and the response was outrage. Radiation was the technology of the future in the 1950s, and the claim that a low dose could cause cancer years later contradicted what the entire medical and nuclear establishment believed. Her methods were attacked. Her funding suffered. Doctors carried on X-raying pregnant women. It took roughly 25 years for the medical world to come round. Pregnant women were still routinely X-rayed into the late 1970s. Two decades after she told them to stop. She retired in 1974 and did her most contested work afterwards, in her seventies, examining the health records of American nuclear weapons workers. Her findings there were unwelcome enough that the Department of Energy cut off her access to the data. She spent 14 years fighting them and testified before Congress, and in 1990 the records were opened to independent researchers. She died in 2002, aged 95. The children who were never X-rayed have no idea who she was. history.rcp.ac.uk/blog/alice…

I guess B cells really suck…we should kill them in autoimmune patients and now they are saying in #cancer patients too!! Seriously ?? jci.org/articles/view/205606

Interesting work by George Church et al. In Nature, Nature Portfolio @geochurch @Nature nature.com/articles/s41586-0…