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giovedì 27 febbraio 2020
# life: inside the mysterious (i.e. secret) Yunnan cave, a key to the bizarre jump of the Chinese covid-19 virus
sabato 23 gennaio 2016
# s-epidem: diurnal mosquitoes with Zika virus inside
<< Experts are concerned that the illness, which is increasingly linked to a disorder that causes paralysis, may become a problem in the U.S. >>
Dina Fine Maron. Zika Disease: Another Reason to Hate Mosquitoes. October 8, 2015
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/zika-disease-another-reason-to-hate-mosquitoes/
A new global map highlights places #Zika could spread
https://twitter.com/ScienceNews/status/690677908927598593
Meghan Rosen. Rapid spread of Zika virus in the Americas raises alarm. Mosquito-borne disease linked to birth defect is pushing northward from Brazil. 3:08PM, January 22, 2016
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rapid-spread-zika-virus-americas-raises-alarm
venerdì 7 gennaio 2022
# evol: viruses as a facilitator / driver of horizontal gene transfer among eukaryotes
mercoledì 26 febbraio 2020
# gst: NS3, how viruses self-cripple their genome replication machinery
martedì 5 marzo 2024
# life: Hollywood movies revisited, you'll have to be very careful, a cycle of panic and neglect (e.g. about an 'Entity X') is beginning to repeat.
domenica 9 gennaio 2022
# ecol: mycological jazz
venerdì 19 gennaio 2024
# life: simnotrelvir, a Chinese pill anti covid-19
mercoledì 6 marzo 2024
# life: apropos of 1or2achoos (from Wuhan (?)) ; CD8+ T cell and early mucosal IgA responses seem strongly associated with viral (SARS-CoV-2) control.
mercoledì 4 ottobre 2023
# life: a proposito di '1or2achoos' (da Wuhan (?)), qui la cronologia
sabato 4 dicembre 2021
# life: apropos of 'dancing at a fixed point'
sabato 27 agosto 2022
# life; the hypothesis of early treatment (at home) of the virus sars-cov-2
sabato 4 aprile 2020
# life: 27 proteins to confine a world to a (complex 3D) virus dance
sabato 8 luglio 2023
# behav: how a microbiota (Curvibacter sp.) could modulate eating behavior in Hydra.
sabato 4 giugno 2022
# pnei: brain motor and fear circuits regulate leukocytes during acute stress
giovedì 8 ottobre 2020
# gst: observing the crystallization process in a droplet
domenica 13 dicembre 2015
# rmx-trade: il grande disastro del carrello del the' per Egon
http://kingworldnews.com/1-5-quadrillion-derivatives-bomb-and-the-great-financial-disaster/
Egon von Greyerz, fondatore e managing partner della società svizzera Matterhorn Asset Managment, riferendosi alla bomba di derivati mondiale, che avrebbe un valore di ben $1,5 quadrilioni di dollari, parla del Grande Disastro Finanziario che si abbatterà sul pianeta ...
http://www.wallstreetitalia.com/article/1830890/finanza/un-grande-disastro-finanziario-si-abbattera-sul-pianeta.aspx
also: "the Great Tea Trolley Disaster", Bristow
http://www.frankdickens.com/
also: a rhyming, quasistochastics, "Future movers"
<< N. sull'esplorazione del fruticoso di verdure di mutico col neuroSurfer dal curvimetro ceduo, occamista, in traccia di mude nel cesto dalle ferule nervature interferenti a refuso di turme sdrucciolevoli, superconduttive - come trattate da un virus dalle femto cesure crude, giammai dome - nel pervasivo furore di merci ch'autoescludevano ... // >>
Inchingolo GM, Sunday, April 23, 2006
http://inkpi.blogspot.it/2006/04/1995-future-movers.html
domenica 14 agosto 2016
# s-brain: imprinting and recalling inside a single network of brain cells with thin beam of light (as if switching on a TV ) ...
<< a set of neurons trained to fire in unison could be reactivated as much as a day later if just one neuron in the network was stimulated. >>
AA << injected the mouse with a virus containing light-sensitive proteins engineered to reach specific brain cells. Once inside a cell, the proteins allowed researchers to remotely activate the neuron with light, as if switching on a TV >>
<< But then I saw the results and said "Holy moly, this whole thing is plastic". We're dealing with a plastic computer that's constantly learning and changing >> Rafael Yuste.
Researchers Reprogram Network of Brain Cells in Mice With Thin Beam of Light. Neuroscience News. August 11, 2016
http://neurosciencenews.com/optogenetics-brain-plasticity-4832/
Luis Carrillo-Reid, Weijian Yang, et al. Imprinting and recalling cortical ensembles. Science.12 Aug 2016: Vol. 353, Issue 6300, pp. 691-694 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf7560.
lunedì 8 aprile 2019
# epidem: silent invasions, the case of Candida auris.
<< Bacteria are rebelling >>
<< The germ, a fungus called Candida auris, preys on people with weakened immune systems, and it is quietly spreading across the globe. >>
Matt Richtel, Andrew Jacobs. DEADLY GERMS, LOST CURES. A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy. The rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat: drug-resistant germs. NYT. April 6, 2019.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-candida-auris.html
<< The recent rate of emergence of pathogenic fungi that are resistant to the limited number of commonly used antifungal agents is unprecedented. The azoles, for example, are used not only for human and animal health care and crop protection but also in antifouling coatings and timber preservation. The ubiquity and multiple uses of azoles have hastened the independent evolution of resistance in many environments. One consequence is an increasing risk in human health care from naturally occurring opportunistic fungal pathogens that have acquired resistance to this broad class of chemicals. >>
Matthew C. Fisher, Nichola J. Hawkins, et al. Worldwide emergence of resistance to antifungal drugs challenges human health and food security. Science May 18, 2018
Vol. 360, Issue 6390, pp. 739-742 doi: 10.1126/science.aap7999
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6390/739
FonT
Per nostra - di noi umani - fortuna oggi si puo' analizzare, studiare ed eventualmente manipolare in modo fine il codice genetico di virus, batteri, etc. grazie alla tecnica CRISPR, tecnica a suo tempo (e per molto tempo) considerata di nessuna importanza da entita' di alta- altissima luminescenza ...
Eric S. Lander. The Heroes of CRISPR.
Cell. 14 January 2016, Vol.164(1): 18–28, doi:10.1016/j.cell.2015.12.041
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867415017055
Also: "CRISPR"
martedì 15 gennaio 2019
# evol: nonlinear effects in shaping human evolution, the role of viruses
<< Human evolution used to be depicted as a straight line, gradually progressing from an ape-like ancestor to modern Homo sapiens. But thanks to next-generation sequencing, findings in recent years have shown that it wasn’t quite so orderly. Now, a new study is reporting new details about the role of viruses in shaping evolution, in particular, viral interactions between modern humans and Neanderthals. >>
<< Many Neanderthal sequences have been lost in modern humans, but some stayed and appear to have quickly increased to high frequencies at the time of contact, suggestive of their selective benefits at that time, >> Dmitri Petrov
New study reports the role of viruses in shaping evolution. Oct 5, 2018.
https://thesurg.com/virus-shaping-evolution
AA << hypothesized that interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans led to (1) the exposure of each species to novel viruses and (2) the exchange of adaptive alleles that provided resistance against these viruses. >>
David Enard, Dmitri A. Petrov. Evidence that RNA Viruses Drove Adaptive Introgression between Neanderthals and Modern Humans. Cell. 175 (2) P360-371.E13 Oct 4, 2018.