A drug target for Parkinson's disease (PD) based on a GWAS finding. This is so cool
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Have you seen our #GlobalGoals Indicator Dashboard?

It brings together all the gender-related SDG indicators.
You can create your own visualizations and download data.

#SDG5

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Despite their size, mosquitoes cause more death and disease than any other animal on the planet! Visit cdc.gov/mosquitoes/ to refresh your knowledge on mosquito bite prevention on #WorldMosquitoDay Aug 20, 2022

'We will need to be ready to move again when necessary. With every degree of temperature increase, roughly 1 billion people will be pushed outside the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years.'
theguardian.com/news/2022/aug/…

RNA editing underlies genetic risk of common inflammatory diseases | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

'Along with a successful HPV vaccination programme for 12-year-old girls, which has surpassed other countries – including the UK – (...) Rwanda is on track to become the first country in Africa, and possibly the world, to eliminate cervical cancer.'
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'Now scientists, including Ogoina, are just starting to realize this little boy was another first, not just for Nigeria,but also for the entire world. He was the first known case of the international monkeypox outbreak, currently spreading in 78 countries'
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1/ A 🧵on our NEW Commentary published in CELL.

My co-authors & I tackled a longstanding problem under the ☂️of #structural #discrimination & named it Interorganizational Structural Discrimination (ISD).

#WomenInMedicine #MedTwitter #HeForShe #STEMM

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A high-resolution study of length of mild Covid infectiousness with virus culture and viral RNA load
2/3rd of cases shedding virus, still infectious at 5 days post-symptom onset; 1/3 at 7 days
thelancet.com/journals/lanre…
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
Pre-Omicron, likely longer now

Inspiring post by Pamela Feliciano who learnt about her son's autism diagnosis and left her senior editor position at Nature Genetics and joined SPARK for Autism to help build one of the world's largest autism cohorts.
statnews.com/2022/08/18/gen…

Primum non nocere
'Appreciation that much of the daily biz of a healthy immune system is the avoidance of potentially harmful responses to innocuous environmental antigens or components of the host organism helps provide a context for these observations'
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#ALS / #MND is heterogeneous in its #genetics , #pathology and #clinical presentation. In my PhD, I have integrated public human stem cell models of motor neurons, uncovering a hallmark of ALS: genomic instability 🧵medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

WHO publishes its first guideline for #Ebola virus disease therapeutics: recommends the use of two monoclonal antibodies.

WHO calls on the global community to increase access to these lifesaving medicines.

📌 bit.ly/3CfDmNS

We are looking for a staff scientist or postdoc with chemical biology or cryo-EM/ET expertise to join our team HHMI | Janelia HHMI NEWS and study cell-surface signals in the brain and immune system.

Navigating who I was before cancer and who I am after, I must say, is one of the difficult challenges I've faced. Cancer changes everything.

Presented our exciting work on nasal anti-CD3 in Alzheimer's models at the Int'l AAIC Meeting in San Diego. Based on this we are planning to treat AD with nasal anti-CD3 (Foralumab) as we did in progressive MS. Here's the abstract and a link to my talk: bit.ly/3w0cvBC

Excited about 🫁 mucosal #immunology ? I have open post-doc positions exploring tissue resident myeloid cells, IL-1, lipids and interferon biology in #tuberculosis , #SARSCoV2 , #coccidioides and other clinically relevant lung infections. Contact in bio.