A paper in Nature presents an experimental recombinant antivenom to protect against bites from some of Africa’s deadliest snakes—including mambas, cobras, and rinkhals—that has shown promise in treating mice. go.nature.com/4ogT80d #medsky 🧪

New OA Article: "A single-cell rice atlas integrates multi-species data to reveal cis-regulatory evolution" rdcu.be/eHce3

Chromatin accessibility in rice & related grasses: how regulatory DNA elements evolve across cell types & species; identifying potential silencers.

If you write stuff for a living, please never report the upper end of a range without also including the lower end. Doing that is a thing that I like to call “lying.”

People really will get freaked out by the ingredients list on a jug of oat milk and then think they're only eating one chemical when they grill a steak.

Enjoy your heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons!! Worse than anything in oat milk, but still not that bad.

Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media.
Great job Harvard!👏👏👏

Scientists-- Please sign onto this open letter from scientists in defense of habitat protections under the Endangered Species Act. The comment period for the proposed regulation intended to diminish habitat protections closes on May 19. Any scientist is welcome to sign on. Thanks for sharing.

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨

WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.

4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.

Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

In fairness, “you can make millions of individual molecules but there are 13 that you need but can’t make so let’s outsource their production to plants. Also, it’s actually 12…you can make one of the vitamins…as long as the sun’s rays touch your skin like you yourself are a plant” does sound fake.

A study in Nature Neuroscience identifies a prefrontal–pontomedullary pathway that slows breathing and reduces anxiety in mice. The findings explain a circuit basis for top-down control of breathing, which can influence emotional states. �Ÿ”’ https://go.nature.com/3CUtPy3

Thrilled to share: out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social (!) just in time for Thanksgiving, the dinosaurian history of how your turkey does the twist. Fibular reduction enabled mid-drumstick mobility, unlocking extreme knee long-axis rotation in theropods 🍗🦖🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08251-w

Prolonged exposure to LEDs especially at #night, is new source of #pollution because it may affect the synthesis & secretion of retinal #melatonin & #dopamine resulting in negative impacts on retinal #circadian clocks & potentially disrupting retinal CR
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