The two worst pandemics of the modern era, the 1918 H1N1 and the 2020 SARS-CoV-2 pandemics, were caused by viruses in their first jump from animals to humans. Many other epidemics share this characteristic.
Remember when losing an election meant you congratulated the winner? They don’t even bother with a pretense of cheating anymore.
Call your congressional offices (1 rep + 2 senators) and tell them that you want NIAID to continue to advance our knowledge of infectious disease (after a pandemic!) and immunology. Many recent breakthroughs across medicine have come from new insight into antibodies and immune system cells.
Agree! However, it appears that Wordlebot does consistently use this 2nd word in the same situation.
Very interesting article on scientific misconduct. In health research, we keep original source material for a long time, and conduct formal, systematic reviews. The PI profiled here, researching behavior, destroyed her source material. It left her defenseless. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/30/b...
This is an exciting time in clinical neuroscience because for decades the field focused the nanometer-scale synapse and all that happened there and considered everything else to be structural. Now scientists are saying, “maybe all these helper cells actually do something” and doors are opening.
The earlier experience doesn’t mean success is impossible in these new trials, but we do know what to expect and what outcomes would represent meaningful progress. For example, clinical benefit in open-label studies was achieved in earlier trials, the challenges come with blinding.
People are covering the new group of cell therapy companies who are implanting Parkinson’s patients with lab-created neurons as if this approach wasn’t extensively studied from the 1990s through 2010 and it failed for reasons we mostly understand. Ugh.
Maybe it is time to standardize the number pad. It’s a bit better to say zero comes before 1 instead of after 9. Maybe the old AT&T layout - even though we use it most - needs to go.
I’m in Durham 9-5 on weekdays… or maybe 8-6. Sometimes 8-7.