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    Researchers reveal a wide-ranging “vaccine” against misinformation - 2 year(s) ago

    Journal Club posts are short news stories featuring a recent important, timely journal article selected by one of our Journal Club panelists, who are postdocs and graduate students in NAS members’ labs.

    Source: PNAS
    Categories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest Headlines
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      CaulfieldTim

      Researchers reveal a wide-ranging “vaccine” against misinformation https://t.co/hgV5yGqJ6A via @PNASNews “...debunk the general techniques that are used to dupe people across a broad range of content,” such as: - emotional manipulation - false dichotomies - ad hominem attacks

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    Lack of association between pandemic chilblains and SARS-CoV-2 infection - 2 year(s) ago

    Chilblain diagnoses have increased during the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and have been attributed to viral infection and a subsequent robust antiviral immune response. As a result, providers have managed these cases differently than idiopathic chilblains, which are associated with cold exposure. The relationship between pandemic chilblains and SARS-CoV-2…

    Source: PNAS
    Categories: Infectious Disease, Latest Headlines
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      BogochIsaac

      Remember COVID-toes (also known as chilblains)? These are discoloured toes (& sometimes fingers), sometime swollen, sometimes painful. A new study suggest that these may not be related to COVID after all. Intricate work by @JeffGehlhausen et al. https://t.co/KHkxMVzX1s https://t.co/vsqX6UNAHH

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    Lack of association between pandemic chilblains and SARS-CoV-2 infection - 2 year(s) ago

    Chilblain diagnoses have increased during the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and have been attributed to viral infection and a subsequent robust antiviral immune response. As a result, providers have managed these cases differently than idiopathic chilblains, which are associated with cold exposure. The relationship between pandemic chilblains and SARS-CoV-2…

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      VirusesImmunity

      “COVID toes” are swollen discolored toes (and fingers) that were seen in areas with high incidence of COVID-19, but the cause is unknown. This new study by @JeffGehlhausen et al shows lack of association between covid toes and SARS-CoV-2 infection. 🧵(1/) https://t.co/sXx3rjKjPz

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    Lack of association between pandemic chilblains and SARS-CoV-2 infection - 2 year(s) ago

    Chilblain diagnoses have increased during the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and have been attributed to viral infection and a subsequent robust antiviral immune response. As a result, providers have managed these cases differently than idiopathic chilblains, which are associated with cold exposure. The relationship between pandemic chilblains and SARS-CoV-2…

    Source: PNAS
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      VirusesImmunity

      RT @kntmsllnjd: Lack of association between pandemic chilblains and SARS-CoV-2 infection @PNASNews @VirusesImmunity https://t.co/0xXo3ShZrq

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    Three-dimensional visualization and a deep-learning model reveal complex fungal parasite networks in behaviorally manipulated ants - 2 year(s) ago

    Microbial parasites may behave collectively to manipulate their host’s behavior. We examine adaptations of a microbial parasite in its natural environment: the body of its coevolved and manipulated host. Electron microscopy and 3D reconstructions of host and parasite tissues reveal that this fungus invades muscle fibers throughout the ant’s body but leaves the brain intact, and that the fungal…

    Source: PNAS
    Categories: Latest Headlines, Oncologists2
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      Harshadod

      Microbial parasites can manipulate their host behaviour. Fungi by metabolites manipulates gene expression & muscles leaving brain alone 3D visualization & deep-learning model reveal complex fungal networks in behaviorally manipulated ants https://t.co/Fg392vM0ey

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    The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is associated with protection against HIV - 2 year(s) ago

    There are genetic risk factors that influence the outcome of COVID-19 [COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative, Nature 600, 472–477 (2021)]. The major genetic risk factor for severe COIVD-19 resides on chromosome 3 and is inherited from Neandertals [H. Zeberg, S. Pääbo, Nature 587, 610–612 (2020)]. The risk-associated DNA segment modulates the expression of several chemokine receptors, among them CCR5,…

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      EricTopol

      The Neanderthal-derived chromosome 3 locus that has been established to be associated with risk of severe Covid may be protective vs HIV, a 27% less risk of infection https://t.co/YyHtLJUQxW @MPI_EVA_Leipzig @karolinskainst @PNASNews https://t.co/P5XUkIqqEa

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    Prolactin-mediated restraint of maternal aggression in lactation - 2 year(s) ago

    Heightened intruder-directed aggressive behavior in female mice is displayed during lactation to enable a mother to protect her offspring. Although recent work has identified that the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus plays an important role in governing aggressive behavior, it is unknown how the changing hormones of pregnancy and lactation might regulate this behavior during specific…

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    Categories: Latest Headlines, Neurology
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      NeuroscienceNew

      “Prolactin-mediated restraint of maternal aggression in lactation” by Teodora Georgescu et al. PNAS https://t.co/RB101tJDUi

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    Elite male faculty in the life sciences employ fewer women - 2 year(s) ago

    Despite decades of progress, men still greatly outnumber women among biology faculty in the United States. Here, we show that high-achieving faculty members who are male train 10–40% fewer women in their laboratories relative to the number of women trained by other investigators. These skewed employment patterns may result from self-selection among female scientists or they may result from…

    Source: PNAS
    Categories: Hem/Oncs, Latest Headlines
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      gary_lyman

      Elite male faculty in the life sciences employ fewer women https://t.co/g1QaInJYAl @NicoleKuderer

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      gary_lyman

      RT @DrDorotaSK: @TeleseFrancesca check the PNAS paper - easy to see how it happens day by day.... https://t.co/M7QaQKB9J2

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