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A scientist writes a piece about masks that Facebook flags as false information. What’s going on?
On the scientists who get coopted into the disinformation wars:
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Some reports that lateral flow testing in Liverpool show that COVID has gone. True? No. A terrible, over-simplified, prejudiced misinterpretation of the data.
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The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has today issued a statement which urges all UK governments to address the way they communicate important COVID-19 data to the public. uksa.statisticsauthority.gov…
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Our Covid-19 Task Force comments on the importance of scientific scrutiny of Covid-19 tests
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rate of infection is now falling, even before additional restrictions on social contact have been introduced. It backs up the argument of Manchester MPs that shutting all pubs and restaurants in their city now could be overkill. But these are difficult judgements, to be clear
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If you want some more encouraging news, this table is it. It shows the areas where growth in the virus has been greatest. They are almost all areas where students arrived in force. And in those places where students were infected earliest, eg Manchester, the...
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Similar picture with admissions:
From 20th to 23rd March, admissions up by 63%.
In last 3 days admissions up by 3% (& latest number actually lower than previous day).
We are in a totally different situation to in March.
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Week 41 and latest COVID incident report published from PHE - it shows that traceable infections directly attributable to hospitality are at 3% (down from 4% last week). Last week's report showed 80% of close contacts in home assets.publishing.service.go…
There seems to be a lot of invective suggesting Prof Whitty somehow fabricated the data showed yesterday. These are the data which show a doubling of projected new daily cases between 11/9 and 18/9. Several important caveats in interpretation though. @juniordrblog
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Our review on all things bioprinting is now available in Chemical Reviews. @DomingosLab @Geoff3P @miguelf3d @ferrymelchels @trdargs pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021…
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Guo et al. show that microglial exosomes mediate α-synuclein transmission from microglia to neurons in vitro and in vivo, suggesting potential as a therapeutic target in #Parkinson's disease. bit.ly/2SF5Ysp
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Important new paper showing a method of reducing uptake of tau in neurons, congrats Nicha Puangmalai and colleagues! nature.com/articles/s41419-0…
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Today's #EditorialPick is on the cellular expression and proteolytic processing of the amyloid precursor protein independently to TDP-43. #AlzheimersDisease #BiosciRep
Available to read now: ow.ly/qucx50zs26R
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Proteostasis Consortium Seminar Series
proteostasisconsortium.com/
featuring talks from: @ShorterLab @FrydmanLab @iDikic2 @BrunetLab and many others
Should be an excellent seminar series for all interested in proteostasis, ageing, and neurodegeneration
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A review of "Mendelian neurodegenerative disease genes involved in autophagy" from the best in the business - @TheCIMR @Cambridge_Uni @UKDRI
nature.com/articles/s41421-0…
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Pandya and Patani review cell type-specific molecular links between ageing and #ALS, and consider how cell type-specific ageing mechanisms could serve as therapeutic targets. bit.ly/3cL170p
Our latest research on #extracellularvesicles has just been published with @SpringerNature. Thanks to @alzheimerssoc for funding and to collaborators @HooperLabManc and @DrNicki_c.
link.springer.com/article/10…
Our new paper on TDP-43 out today, funded by @alzheimerssoc. portlandpress.com/bioscirep/…
#tdp43 #BiosciReports #Alzheimers
@HooperLabManc @DNEP_UoM