Boosting T-cell anti-tumor activity scitechdaily.com/supercharged-t… #scichat #cancer #immunology

The Gut Microbiome's Role in Enhancing Cancer Immunotherapy and Treatment Outcomes pharmacytimes.com/view/emerging-… #scichat #microbiome #cancer

Genomic evidence supports theory that Neanderthals went extinct due to their isolated, antisocial lifestyle, which limited genetic diversity and weakened their ability to survive scitechdaily.com/new-neandertha… #scichat #genomics #aDNA #Neanderthals

Mountain chickadees that better cognitive skills lead to longer lifespans and increased reproduction due to enhanced food storage and retrieval capabilities scitechdaily.com/survival-of-th… #scichat #birds #evolution

Killer toxins from Saccharomyces cerevisiae can combat diastatic yeast strains that threaten beer quality by causing over-fermentation scitechdaily.com/unlocking-yeas… #scichat #beer #microbrew #spoilage

The “Thorin” genome says some really interesting things about the structure and history of Neanderthal populations. The 50,000-years-of-isolation headlines I've seen are such a misunderstanding of these fascinating data. johnhawks.net/weblog/surpris…

"The avocado is a fruit of a different time" #evolution #biodiversity #extinctions

Polar bears and brown bears diverged fairly recently in evolutionary terms–within roughly the past one million years popsci.com/environment/po… #scichat #evolution #genomics

Colorectal Cancer Functional Study Leads to Causal Variants, Gene Targets genomeweb.com/sequencing/col… #scichat #cancer #genomics #epigenetics

When nematodes turn up without their heads — and bacteria become the prime suspect sdsu.edu/news/2024/09/d… San Diego State University #scichat #edchat #pblchat #microbiology

Are you confused by claims about nitrites and nitrates? Some say they are really bad for you, but it’s not that simple. You can read more about it here 👇 scienceupfirst.com/project/should… #ScienceUpFirst

Discover the Science Behind the Swirls of “The Starry Night” scitechdaily.com/discover-the-s… #scichat #art

Understanding the different properties of different retrons (code for reverse transcriptase|block phage infection) phys.org/news/2024-09-d… #scichat #genomics

Peptide bond interactions explain collagen’s ‘impossible’ longevity in dinosaur bones. the work has ‘tremendous implications’ for research on ageing, drug design and molecular evolution. chemistryworld.com/news/peptide-b… #palaeontology #evolution #chemistry #SciChat

Alternatives to glyphosate part of University of Alberta Masters student research project albertafarmexpress.ca/crops/research… #scichat #agchat

Don’t let your guard down as bears are still active, searching for food throughout the Bow Valley and Kananaskis Country biosphereinstitute.org/bear-report/19… #Canmmore #Kananaskis #Bears

We stay close to Zurich for the time trials of the World Championships today. Zurich itself is very exciting but tectonically speaking it’s rather boring. And that’s a good thing! @Thomas_geosc of Earth and Planetary Sciences at ETH Zurich at ETH Zürich Zurich explains this. The riders will go fast, very fast but

On Tuesday Sept 26, I am giving a talk to the “Grasslands Naturalists” in Medicine Hat about the connections between Wildlife, Landscapes, and Geology based on my book of the same name. brokenpoplars.ca

New perspectives expanding evolutionary cancer theory scitechdaily.com/rewriting-canc… #scichat #cancer #evolution

Standing on the shoulders of solitude – Newton, the plague, and how quarantine fomented the greatest leap in the history of science themarginalian.org/2020/04/06/new…