Mastodawn

Nuno Dec 13, 2023

Highlights of the year in biotech by Nature Biotechnology https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-023-02076-0

From AI to the Y chromosome (and everything in between) - Nature Biotechnology

Nature Biotechnology editors pick their favorite research articles from 2023.

Nature

Nuno Dec 1, 2023

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/landmark-study-confirms-effectiveness-of-prep

Landmark study confirms effectiveness of PrEP

The PrEP Impact Trial involved 157 sexual health services and confirms PrEP's real-world effectiveness.

GOV.UK

Nuno Sep 27, 2023

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-nanopore-sequencing-dna-barcoding-method.amp

Nanopore sequencing and DNA barcoding method gives hope of personalized medicine

With the ability to map dozens of biomarkers at once, a new method could transform testing for conditions including heart disease and cancer.

Phys.org

Nuno Jul 29, 2023

AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-generated-data-can-poison-future-ai-models/

AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models

As AI-generated content fills the Internet, it’s corrupting the training data for models to come. What happens when AI eats itself?

Scientific American

Nuno Jul 16, 2023

Mastodon may have less users than Threads, but the content is nevertheless more interesting.

Nuno Dec 30, 2022

Another good comment on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/zy999y/comment/j252rvc/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Where do they get this stuff?

Posted in r/WhitePeopleTwitter by u/hexx1112 • 15,130 points and 1,510 comments

Nuno Dec 28, 2022

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04384-y

Nature’s biggest news stories of 2022

From Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to predicting protein structures with AI and transplanting pig organs into people, our news editors choose the defining moments in science this year.

Nuno Dec 22, 2022

Asgard archaea were identified relatively recently, and they have been in the spotlight due to their similarity to Eukaryotes. This has raised the very interesting hypothesis that a member of this group was the host of the endosymbiosis that resulted in Eukaryotes. Cultured representatives of Asgard are rare, and this paper describes the second organism to be actually visualised. Its cell shape fits with the inside-out hypothesis for eukaryogenesis.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05550-y

Actin cytoskeleton and complex cell architecture in an Asgard archaeon - Nature

Culture and analysis of ‘Candidatus Lokiarchaeum ossiferum’—a member of the Asgard phylum—reveals an elaborate cell architecture with extensive membranous protrusions.

Nature

Nuno Dec 22, 2022

Anything that makes it easier to keep up with the treatment is good news.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/injectable-hiv-treatment-offers-hope-ugandan-patients-2022-12-21/

Injectable HIV treatment offers hope to Ugandan patients

Ever since Gerald Muwonge tested positive for HIV eight years ago, keeping his viral load in check has meant carrying around vials of pills for his daily treatment regimen while dodging the stigma this could mean for a gay man in Uganda.

Reuters

Nuno Dec 8, 2022

On Louis Pasteur, "the most dedicated servant that science ever had."

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/louis-pasteur-transformed-health-disease-microbiology

Louis Pasteur, born 200 years ago, transformed public health forever

Two centuries after his birth, Louis Pasteur's work on pasteurization, germ theory and vaccines is as relevant as ever.

Science News