Delighted to see my latest piece featured as a top story in @TheStage ✨
What is theatre’s responsibility when staging #dementia?
On care, representation, recognition — and what theatre owes its subjects.
🔗 www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/what...
Accounting for a patient’s skin colour during Cherenkov-based radiotherapy dosimetry can mitigate the effect of skin pigmentation and increase the accuracy of dose measurements. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/accounting...
Artificial variables help to avoid over-clustering in single-cell RNA sequencing
#singlecell #transcriptomics #clustering 🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Fig. 1.Summary of the approach taken to identify tembotrione-metabolizing enzymes in resistant Amaranthus palmeri. A parental resistant population with enhanced tembotrione hydroxylating activity was crossed with a susceptible population to produce pseudo-F2 lines segregating for tembotrione resistance. Candidate resistance genes were identified by RNA-seq and validated by measuring hydroxy-tembotrione production in yeast overexpressing each gene. Polymorphisms in the promoter of the validated gene, CYP72A1182, plus a QTL analysis pinpointing genomic regions associated with resistance, suggest that differential transcriptional regulation of CYP72A1182 is responsible for the differences in hydroxylating capacity between susceptible and resistant plants.
🔍 INSIGHT
🌿 Dicots take a CYP from the herbicide detoxification cup - Danica Goggin 🧬
📝 Insight: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
🔬 Research: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Visual information in the dark: Bioluminescence and perceptual design through evolution - Oakley - Functional Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Close-up of vibrant green leaves on a small plant, with a blurred background featuring a garden bed lined with wood chips.
Woman in purple gardening gloves holds a small worm, showing it to the camera with a focused expression.
Daisies and pink buds in a lush garden setting, with soft-focus greenery and blurred background, conveying a serene, natural vibe.
Two men, one sitting and one standing, in a modern outdoor area with curved planters and gray paving stones.
🪴Our department garden is blooming into something wonderful, thanks to the work of the members of our CEB Gardening Club!
Take a look at a few 📸from their latest planting session.
🧪⚙️🌱🔋
#ChemicalEngineering #Biotechnology #CambridgeUniversity #Gardens
Fossilised tree in park stumps experts. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Good reflection on how chronic inflammation can affect survival too
So true
This sounds exciting
The plasmonic coffee-ring biosensor.
Plasmonic coffee-ring biosensing for AI-assisted point-of-care diagnostics 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Biosensor with ultrahigh sensitivity, utilizing evaporation of 2 sessile droplets and formation of coffee-rings with asymmetric nanoplasmonic patterns to detect disease-relevant proteins
Today the Caspian Sea has dropped to a historic low level due to global warming & it's likely to get much worse. On current emission trajectories, the decline could 10m or more by 2100, with catastrophic consequences for people & nature 🧪🌍🌐🦑🐋🦭.
aze.media/caspian-sea-...
doi.org/10.1038/s432...
This is figure 2, which shows surface temperature responses to reductions in East Asian aerosol emissions.
Restrictions of atmospheric aerosol and precursor emissions in East Asia have contributed to the observed global surface warming acceleration since 2010, according to a study in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/44CkCWP 🧪
Trend for schistosomiasis in national and territories subgroups from 1990 to 2021. (A) ASPR. (B) ASMR. (C) ASDR. (D) Prevalence number. (E) Number of deaths. (F) DALYs number.
Congratulations to authors Shen & Luo. This paper published in February is already cited 4 times in July.🧪
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻: 𝗮 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆
doi.org/10.1051/para...
Cheering you on
Looks like a great place to do science
“Count What Counts” 📊
What if data sings?
What if the quietest answers —
🌈 This isn’t a chart
It’s a nation learning how to name itself
Explore gender identity from UK’s 2021 Census —
visualised, seen.
📂 GitHub:
github.com/LDolanLDolan/job-insight-live
#DataForGood #Census2021 #Gender #Colab
Ah likewise !! Blue sky is a new world to me. 🌷🤩🐈⬛🫖
🧬 Flipped DNA is rewriting evolution
In Lake Malawi, 800+ fish species evolved in record time
– flipped chunks of DNA lock in survival traits and pass them on intact
— humans have them too.
So how your DNA is arranged might matter more than what’s in it
#notesfromthesoftcode #Genetics #Cambridge
🌈 Who knew waste could shine?
This isn’t candy — it’s E. coli working overtime.
Scientists at Edinburgh reprogrammed it to turn plastic into paracetamol, brewed like beer.
Zero carbon 90% yield
future of medicine might start in a flask.
#EngineeringBiology #Biotech #PlasticToPills #ScienceThatHeals
“The biological, medical, and philosophical are intricately connected, which is one reason medics and philosophers should collaborate in dealing with them,” writes philosopher Ian Kidd. | iai.tv/articles/nam...
Tap the link to read more.
#medsoc🧪
Impressive, stamina, watching on iTunes
Hello my friend I have to say I’m a bit of an infrequent visitor here but it is an interesting place. I am exploring - super to see you.
Deep-sea octopus, siphonophore, penguins & R/V Falkor (too), seastar, porthole, gossamer worm, seal ,flying spaghetti monster siphonophore, and coffinfish images from R/V Falkor (too) expeditions in 2024 and 2025.
On #BiodiversityDay, we’re celebrating life on an ocean world. Our survival and ability to thrive are inextricably linked with the health of the planet and all of its inhabitants. Over 90% of the habitable space on Earth is in the Ocean, which is home to much of the planet’s biodiversity.
Woman smiling in front of a presentation slide with the title 'fantastic maerl and where to find it'
Great to have Lina Rasmusson (Gothenburg uni) at @umeaunimarine.bsky.social today to talk about all things #CorallineAlgae & #kelp
She also presented her ongoing @formasforsk.bsky.social project, which is bringing a research spotlight to Sweden's elusive #maerl beds!
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social
🧪🦑🌍
Modeling predicts that metabolic diversity increases the ecological impacts of weapon gene transfer. Modeling scenarios for each column are shown across the top row. Bottom row: Example dynamics of the strains (attacker, target, transconjugant) during a contest using parameters that correspond to the cross (X) shown in the parameter sweeps directly below.
#Bacteria use weapons to outdo rivals, but what happens if they're transferred? @prokaryota.bsky.social @jdpal.bsky.social &co show that HGT of toxin #plasmids is rare but recipients can thrive under relaxed nutrient competition, reshaping bacterial warfare @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/43vC3X7
Today I attended a brilliant lecture by Dr. Francesca Morgante on Genetics of Dystonias, at St. George’s.
• Phenotyping matters. Without accurate phenotyping, gene panel testing can yield low diagnostic rates.
• Mitochondrial dysfunction is increasingly recognized
#Neurogenetics #Phenotyping
Do you know why we are seeing rising cases of #measles?
Because back before political interference decimated Public Health, we used to close schools when there was a case of #measles. The new pandemic normal is to leave schools open and for reporters to ignore this basic principle. #PublicHealth
#goodnews
9th Circuit Court Decision Halts Predator Killing across 6.2 Million Acres of Public Lands in Nevada
wildearthguardians.org/press-releas...
#conservation #nevada #nature #environment #publicland #animalprotection #wildlife #publichealth #science #wildplaces #predators #ecosystems 🌎
