https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/04/health/updated-covid-vaccines-omicron.html
Are Covid Vaccines That Defend Against Omicron Variants Too Late? – The New York Times
August 3, 2022Secondary_appt Great article on our faculty growth
August 3, 2022What Remote Work Debate? They’ve Been Back at the Office for a While. – The New York Times
August 3, 2022How Scientists Are Reviving Cells in Dead Pigs’ Organs – The New York Times
August 3, 2022https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/science/pigs-organs-death.html Amazing work by the Sestan Lab
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August 1, 2022Biden covid case highlights confusing CDC guidance on ending isolation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/08/01/biden-covid-cdc-guidance-isolation/
SLC6A4 Gene – GeneCards | SC6A4 Protein | SC6A4 Antibody
August 1, 2022https://www.genecards.org/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=SLC6A4
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This gene encodes an integral membrane protein that transports the neurotransmitter serotonin from synaptic spaces into presynaptic neurons. The encoded protein terminates the action of serotonin and recycles it in a sodium-dependent manner. This protein is a target of psychomotor stimulants, such as amphetamines and cocaine, and is a member of the sodium:neurotransmitter symporter family. A repeat length polymorphism in the promoter of this gene has been shown to affect the rate of serotonin uptake. There have been conflicting results in the literature about the possible effect, if any, that this polymorphism may play in behavior and depression. [provided by RefSeq, May 2019]
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famous serotonin re-update transporter
Opinion | Endemic Covid-19 Looks Pretty Brutal – The New York Times
July 31, 2022QT:{{”
If Bedford is correct — and that steady state means 100,000 annual Covid deaths going forward, for at least the next several years — the two facts may be a bit hard to square in your mind. (Especially if you remember both the initial state of emergency the pandemic called into being and the more recent hope that it could at some point “be over.”) A hundred thousand deaths is more than the annual toll of any other infectious disease and would make Covid-19 a top-10 cause of death in the country — a major and novel cause of widespread death clouding the American horizon with another dark layer of morbidity we had never known before. It’s a few multiples of a typical flu season and more than die each year from diabetes, pneumonia or kidney disease. …
Mina compares the building of immunity to the learning of a language. “It’s a fact of the biology of immunity that it’s really hard to build a brand-new memory and keep it if you’re old,” he says. “And so I do think that for quite a while our elderly population is going to keep having really big problems because they just can’t retain these new memories.” People exposed today, who will become 80 years old in 25 years or so, won’t have the same problem, Mina says, because they will have built their immune memory at a younger age.
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Really liked the comparison of building immunity to the learning of a language. In a sense, the immune system learns things like the brain.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/20/opinion/covid-19-deaths-vaccines-endemic.html
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