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#St. Thomas' Hospital UK
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#LiveScience

In a 1st, scientists use designer immune cells to send an autoimmune disease into remission

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Five patients with hard-to-treat lupus entered remission after scientists tweaked their immune cells using a technique normally used to treat cancer. After the one-time therapy, all five patients with the autoimmune disease stopped their standard treatments and haven't had a relapse.

This treatment, known as chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, needs to be tested in larger groups of lupus patients before it can be approved for widespread use. But if the results hold up in larger trials, the therapy could someday offer relief to people with moderate to severe lupus.

 Full Story: Live Science (9/17) 

#Quanta Magazine

How fireflies flash in sync Growing up, computational biologist Orit Peleg had never even seen a firefly. But as a student, she read about them as an example of how simple systems achieve synchrony. “It’s just so beautiful that it somehow stuck in my head for many, many years,” she says. Her group has captured the first comprehensive, global real-world data about the insects — and found that real firefly swarms don’t match up with mathematical idealizations. Quanta | 12 min read

#Nature

“Republicans and Democrats overestimate the extent to which the other side dehumanizes them by 50–300%, and debunking these misperceptions can reduce rates of animosity.”

Correcting misconceptions about how we are seen by the ‘other side’ is one intervention that can successfully reduce extreme political sectarianism, write 12 psychologists and political scientists. (Nature Human Behaviour paper | 46 min read)

#WHO

• Non-communicable diseases such as cancer and heart disease are responsible for nearly three-quarters of deaths worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a report saying that non-communicable diseases, which include cardiovascular conditions, cancer, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases and mental illness, kill 41 million people every year. (UN News blog | 3 min read)
  Reference: WHO report
• Air pollution can cause lung cancer in non-smokers by triggering an ‘alarm response’ that activates cancer-causing cells that accumulate naturally during ageing. “We’ve demonstrated that air pollution wakes these cells up in the lungs, encouraging them to grow and potentially form tumours,” says oncologist Charles Swanton, who led the work. The study in mice and humans was presented at the European Society of Medical Oncology conference last week and has not yet been published. (The Lancet Oncology | 3 min read)

#Obituário Dr. Marcelo Blaya Perez

#Museu de Arte POA com Luiz Eduardo Robinson Achutti

#Pathocenose - Mirko Gremerk

Pedro Martin Achutti Olivé trouxe-me hoje este novo conceito que foi apresentado na década de 70. Seria uma visão ecológica da interação entre seres vivos, e uma das explicações para as doenças e suas flutuações epidemiológicas. Seria uma visão especial da Biocenose. De interesse maior na conjuntura Pandêmica atual.

Artigo pretexto: Conceito Ampliado de Saúde em tempos de pandemia. AMPLIFIED CONCEPT OF HEALTH IN TIMES OF PANDEMICAfonso Carlos Neves

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CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS | ALL TOPICS   High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last By CHARLIE WOOD A new atomic-scale experiment all but settles the origin of the strong form of superconductivity seen in cuprate crystals, confirming a 35-year-old theory. Read the article

MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY   Studies Hint at How Fireflies Flash in Sync By JOSHUA SOKOL Field research suggests a new answer for how the insects glow in sync and confirms a type of synchrony rarely seen in nature. Read the article Related:  Scientists Discover Exotic New Patterns of Synchronization by Natalie Wolchover (2019) GEOMETRY   The New Math of Wrinkling By STEPHEN ORNES A comprehensive mathematical framework treats wrinkling patterns as elegant solutions to geometric problems. Read the article Related:  A Grand Theory of Wrinkles by Sarah Lewin (2015) INFORMATION THEORY   How Curves Power Cryptography By JORDANA CEPELEWICZ A simple geometric idea has been used to power advances in information theory, cryptography and even blockchain technology. Read the article Related:  Old Problem About Mathematical Curves Falls to Young Couple by Jordana Cepelewicz IN CASE YOU MISSED IT   One Man's Mission to Unveil Math's Beauty Video by EMILY BUDER "Students haven't been taught that math is discovery," says Richard Rusczyk, founder of Art of Problem Solving. "Math is a creative discipline—you're creating castles in the sky." Rusczyk has a vision for bringing “joyous, beautiful math” — and problem-solving — to classrooms everywhere. Watch the video Around the Web Past Quanta Coverage of 2023 Breakthrough Prize Winners The 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to four pioneers of quantum information science: Charles Bennett, Gilles Brassard, David Deutsch and Peter Shor. Dan Garisto reports on the awards for Scientific American. • Among his many contributions to physics, Charles Bennett solved the longstanding paradox of Maxwell’s demon, as Jonathan O’Callaghan explained for Quanta in 2021. Bennett’s insights linked the studies of information and thermodynamics as disciplines. • David Deutsch contributed immensely to our understanding of quantum mechanics and the universe. In May, Philip Ball wrote for Quanta about his most recent accomplishment: Deutsch rewrote the laws of physics in terms of simple statements about what is possible. • Peter Shor’s discoveries revolutionized quantum computing. In consecutive years, he devised his famous encryption-breaking algorithm and figured out how quantum computers will correct their errors. In 2021 Katie McCormick explained how Shor’s error-correction scheme work. The 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics was awarded to the computer scientist Daniel Spielman for multiple discoveries in theoretical computer science and mathematics. Spielman spoke with Quanta about his work this past summer. Three 2023 Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences were also announced yesterday, honoring three pairs of scientists for their work: Clifford P. Brangwynne and Anthony A. Hyman, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, and Emmanuel Mignot and Masashi Yanagisawa. Amanda Heidt reports on the awards for The Scientist. • Brangwynne and Hyman were recognized for their studies that showed the importance of liquid-liquid phase separation as a means for organizing cellular contents without membrane barriers. Viviane Callier wrote for Quanta about their work in 2021. • Yanagisawa and Mignot were recognized for their discovery of the genetic switches that cause the brain to sleep, and which malfunction in narcolepsy. Veronique Greenwood wrote about their work for Quanta in 2017. • Hassabis and Jumper were honored for developing the program AlphaFold, which revolutionized the prediction of protein structures. Stephen Ornes wrote about the transformer neural networks that are an important component of AlphaFold in March.

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#Our World in Data

Child mortality: an everyday tragedy of enormous scale that we can make progress against Child mortality is an everyday tragedy of enormous scale that rarely makes the headlines. We live in a world in which 5.4 million children die every year. That’s 10 dead children every minute. But progress against child mortality is possible. In this article from July 2021, we describe how child mortality has decreased across all countries in the world — but there is large inequality between rich and poor countries, and much progress still to make.