Leila Al-Shami with Updates from Syria + The Peoples Want
Leila Al-Shami with Updates from Syria + The Peoples Want
Podcast Summary: In this episode of Blind Abilities, Jeff Thompson interviews Leslie Dickson, a Vision Rehabilitation Therapist at the VA, who shares her inspiring journey of resilience and su…
“Baby, I’m a-want you. Baby, I’m a need you.”
—Cassin’s Sparrow
“Rock me gently, rock me slowly.”
—Red-Shouldered Hawk
“Is you is or is you ain’t my baby?”
—Banded Pigeon
Scientists create #artificial_DNA that can be #transcribed by a natural #enzyme.
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-scientists-artificial-dna-natural-enzyme.html
The genetic alphabet contains just four letters, referring to the four nucleotides, the biochemical building blocks that comprise all DNA. Scientists have long wondered whether it's possible to add more letters to this alphabet by creating brand-new nucleotides in the lab, but the utility of this innovation depends on whether or not cells can actually recognize and use artificial nucleotides to make proteins.
The #queerness I #crave
To #read #queer #literature is to be #confronted by the #bizarre #buzz of your #interiority being #transcribed by someone else.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture
https://frontline.thehindu.com/columns/counter-culture-the-queerness-i-crave/article67045335.ece
Queer literature is a bulwark against the commercialisation of Pride Month, challenging cultural assumptions and exploring complexities of desire. From Cavafy’s poetry to Lavery’s memoir to Baltasar’s fiction to Chu’s provocations, it pressures ideas of identity, sexuality, and morality. It captures the disorientation of desire, the pain and pleasure of sex, and the need to explain and justify aberrant acts. Queer literature reminds us of the moral complications of identity and what we do to be alive.
A nice new #paper where I have played a small part. An extremely surprising finding where mutants in the 5S #ribosomal #RNA #transcription factor #GTF3A causes enhanced #susceptibility to #HSV #virus #infection, leading to #encephalitis. A #pseudogene #transcribed is a #ligand activating #RIG-I.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36399538/
#fediscience #immunology #science #PID #genetics #signaling #herpes #health
Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) infects several billion people worldwide and can cause life-threatening herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) in some patients. Monogenic defects in components of the type I interferon system have been identified in patients with HSE, emphasizing the role of inborn errors …