"Christopher Street, a Manhattan station that helps connect New York and New Jersey, had an incredible particle pollution level of 1,499 micrograms per cubic meter" My god. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Super excited to release this animation showing how SARS-CoV-2 gets into cells. The video below shows just a small segment of the full animation. To get to a link to see the entire thing and to read more about the project, go to animationlab.utah.edu/cova

Great piece on the origins of #EnvironmentalJustice! Thanks Paige Bierma for sending this our way. Greenaction CCEJN Jonathan K London nationalgeographic.com/environment/ar… via National Geographic

I’m super excited to share what I’ve been working on for the last three years: a new deep learning algorithm to accurately identify cells in imaging data! Our method works across image platforms, tissue types, and species with no fine-tuning required. 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Accounting for sex as a biological variable (#SABV) is key to better science & better health for all. Since its implementation in 2016, the NIH SABV policy has resulted in more rigorous science & more complete & reproducible research data.

Researchers Crack Mystery of Immune System’s Surveillance of the Brain | Dana Foundation dana.org/article/resear…

Selective removal of astrocytic APOE4 strongly protects against tau-mediated neurodegeneration and decreases synaptic phagocytosis by microglia cell.com/neuron/fulltex… Congrats to Chao Wang and all our colleagues showing a key role for astroctye-derived apoE4 in degeneration

On behalf of the entire #COVaRiPAD team, we are thrilled to announce our preprint reporting humoral responses after BOTH doses of mRNA-based SARS-CoV-2 vax in 133 pts w/ chronic inflammatory diseases (CID) and 53 immunocompetent controls: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…. 1/

Why are slaughterhouses overrepresented among superspreader events? It turns out they have interesting, idiosyncratic ventilation set-ups. (1) they're cold places, so they're very well sealed to keep heating costs down...

We're about to hit the lowest death rate in the US for the pandemic

Our new study in Environmental Health Perspectives is out! We showed that chronic exposure to air pollution within regulatory limits exacerbates and accelerates Alzheimer’s phenotypes in rats

Immune protein's role in the brain: Villeda Lab &co identify a non-canonical role for the classical MHC class I molecule H2-Kb as a negative regulator of neural stem & progenitor cell proliferation, independent of its immune system function #PLOSBiology plos.io/2UPwrYb

what are your favorite papers about immune cell metabolism? what should someone read if they're new to the field? especially 'classic' papers, but recent hits also good! (pls rt)

A historic moment in the world of molecular structural research. #AlphaFold structure predictions for 22 species made freely available by @deepmind, access through UniProt and Protein Data Bank. Learn more at insideuniprot.blogspot.com

Such an honor to have our work on air pollution and Alzheimer’s chosen as one of the Editor’s choice papers from 2021! Thanks Environmental Health Perspectives! And congrats to the rest of this phenomenal team UC Davis Air Quality Research Center Lein Lab UC Davis Environmental Health Sciences Center ehp.niehs.nih.gov/curated-collec…

This The New York Times article cites a recent air pollution study out of UC Davis from PTX faculty member Dr. Pamela Lein and PTX alum Kelley Patten Kelley Patten. Congratulations Lein Lab! We're very proud! nytimes.com/2022/02/23/wel…

🧠 Which brain cell types are connected, and what do those connections look like? 🤔 Recording from multiple live neurons simultaneously — our researchers mapped thousands of cortical connections to find out. 🧵 1 alleninstitute.org/what-we-do/bra…

The world's energy and food supply chains are closely interlinked, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine is exacerbating a food crisis that was already under way Check out our new commentary exploring some of these dynamics➡️iea.li/39nGcUY

New in PN: How the press helps Trump hide in plain sight publicnotice.co/p/trump-sanewa…