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1/ What is the physiological impact of dietary proteins on steady-state T cells? Nelson Vaz and Ana Faria, my undergrad mentors, wondered about this question for decades.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.11.536475v1

'Our cross-species study indicates that scaling of cell size to ploidy is not due to abrupt changes in cell division timing, that different size scaling regimes occur during embryogenesis, and that the developmental program of Xenopus is remarkably consistent across a wide range of genome and egg sizes.'

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00161-6

"When The New York Times, often so careful to avoid offending conservatives, is pointing out the anti-abortion rhetoric in your ruling, where you eschew the scientific terms for a penchant for militant pro-life language, you’re clearly far out on the fringes of your profession."

@gregggonsalves

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gop-judges-abortion-guns/

Sarbecoviruses related to SARS-CoV-2: structures of 12 glycan shields. Many diffrences in the processing state of glycans. The S2 domain more conserved, many High-Man, so maybe S2 can be a candidate for a pan-coronavirus vaccine?

https://tinyurl.com/3h3f2n75

#glycotime

Further proof that transposons are absolutely amazing:

'A retrotransposon insertion in the Mao1 promoter results in erect pubescence and higher yield in soybean'

So much space for domesticating our own transposons...

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2210791120