Afghanistan has one of the world's highest rates of childhood lead exposure, which causes permanent brain damage.
Nearly all children here have significant lead poisoning.
Researchers in the US have found the source of the lead. But nobody has told the Afghan public.
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Attention TB friends!
I am excited to be coorganizing the 2025 TB @KeystoneSymp with @joanneflynn19 and Henry Mwandumba. The theme is "Heterogeneity" and we look forward to seeing you there!
Deadlines:
Abstracts + Scholarships: 12 Nov 2024
Early Reg: 19 Dec 2024
Does anyone know an efficient protocol for detecting YFP+ lymphocytes in blood samples?
I’ve been using fixation and/or erythrocyte lysis reagents, but YFP+ signal is either reduced or gone.
Any suggestions would be great! Please, repost 🙂
I applied for an ERC this year & am pregnant with my second child. If I make it to the second round, the interview is supposed to take place in the same week as my due date. ERC 'generously' offers to either decide without an interview or to change the date within the same week���
The future of publishing: you submit your manuscript to journal X, AI rejects it & transfers it to more appropriate journals where it’s again reviewed by AI with different selection criteria until it finally gets formatted & accepted (3 seconds in total)
Our study on tissue adaptations for human tissue resident T cells in barrier sites is out today with first authors @MayaMLPoon @danielpcaron and many thanks to our collaborators @psimslab@YufengShen07@columbia_MI@columbiamed
https://t.co/WvO33qGkbu
I'm excited to share our newly accepted study 👇 where we identified 3 HLA class II alleles associated with active TB
https://t.co/Mw0gy9FEn6
@TomScriba @ljiresearch@SetteLab@bpeters@LYChihab
Our new paper is out! We looked into the regulation of lymph node microanatomy in M.tb infection. B cells may play a bigger role in TB than we thought! Thanks to @DrNayanB@claudiocounoupa @tricckylab @Fenglab_usyd and co-authors. @jclinicalinvest
https://t.co/9JmV8mOAdJ
Told my girls that @CarolynBertozzi won the Nobel prize and that it’s extra cool because usually men win it.
8yo: “That’s weird because most people don’t really remember the men who got it, just the women. Like Marie Curie… I mean, I can’t even name any men who won.” 😂
Want to hear something amazing about crying?
Emotional tears have higher protein concentration than irritant tears, which makes them fall down your cheeks more slowly—increasing the chance they’ll be seen and solicit care.
In literal ways, your body is built for community.
Can you please tag any male doctors speaking out about reproductive rights?
I honestly can’t think of any right now that have
And that’s terrifying
You don’t have to have a uterus to care about human rights and keeping politics out of medical decisions
A new Review highlights how circadian rhythms control #immunity, spotlighting circadian control of #macrophages, #neutrophils, and cells of the #adaptive immune system:
https://t.co/4ORNXNBFT7
Of course it happened again, and I went to the recording. I must have watched that video 100 times. People asked me, well - who's getting in trouble? And I had to show them this video. The resolution is crap, because old cameras, but it's clear enough. I spent hours 2/n