Pell de gallina. #TomWaits Tom Waits - "Tom Traubert's Blues" (Live on The Human Factor) youtu.be/U2sV6mG18C4

Primera terapia personalizada basada en la edición genética. El tratamiento, diseñado en tiempo récord en Estados Unidos, corrige específicamente la mutación responsable de la enfermedad en un bebé y abre una nueva era en la medicina de precisión. www.heraldo.es/noticias/soc...

“When the next flu pandemic occurs, there is not going to be enough vaccine for everyone who wants it unless we invest to broaden the types of flu vaccines.” Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/h...

Genetics and health: why grapefruit interacts with medication | My original piece in Spanish: Genética y salud: por qué el pomelo interacciona con la medicación #SciComm www.heraldo.es/noticias/sal...

#FossilFriday The wonderfully preserved foot of the La Ferrassie 2 #Neanderthal woman @Musee de l’Homme

The chaos triggered by President Donald Trump’s executive orders banning federal funding for diversity and other topics continues to shake the National Institutes of Health and other health agencies. scim.ag/3EjJGag

Portem uns quants dies ballant i cantant ‘NUEVAYoL’ de Bad Bunny així que era inevitable fer un capítol sobre la influència dels porto-riquenys a NY. Nou episodi de ‘Nova York és l’excusa’ 👇🇵🇷 open.spotify.com/episode/4iaj...

‘Geneticists reveal the mystery of orange cats’ | My original article in Spanish: Genética: descubierto el misterio de los gatos anaranjados #SciComm www.heraldo.es/noticias/soc...

Neglect, it is. WHO finds that the direct cause of "the mystery disease" in Congo is malaria, exacerbated by malnutrition. Malaria can be *cured* by a few cheap pills, as long as it's caught early. So these are deaths of neglect. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Over 75 Nobel laureates urge Senate to turn down Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...

Jia Lanpo directed the excavation of three partial skulls from locus L at “Dragon Bone Hill”, or Zhoukoudian, in November, 1936. The locus L hominins including this one, skull XII, lived sometime between 780,000 and 680,000 years ago.

Avui que fa un vent terrible i segurament esteu refugiats sota la manta pot ser un bon moment per escoltar l’últim episodi de ‘Nova York és l’excusa’, el pòdcast en què @miqueltuson.bsky.social i servidora parlem de les nostres dèries de la ciutat on ens vam conèixer open.spotify.com/episode/6s9Z...

I Ran Operation Warp Speed. I’m Concerned About Bird Flu. – opinion article by David A. Kessler, Biden administration’s chief science officer during Covid-19. #birdflu www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/o...

Qafzeh 9 is one of the most complete skeletal individuals of a population that lived in southwest Asia around 100,000 years ago. Their skeletons show many similarities with recent humans in their anatomy, and their cultures included some shell pendants and use of ochre.

Genetic ancestry influences drug toxicity | My original article in Spanish: La ascendencia genética de distintas poblaciones mundiales influye en la toxicidad a los fármacos www.heraldo.es/noticias/sal...

New, big-headed archaic humans discovered: Who is Homo juluensis? www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Avui en Jaume Terradas, fundador del @creaf.cat ret homenatge a Margalef a pàgina sencera al Diari Ara ❤️

We’re entering flu season with bird flu raging among US dairy cattle: ~third of CA herds infected. The danger is flu viruses have a trick: they can swap segments —one farmworker co-infected by human and avian flu— to cause pandemics. We may get lucky. I hope so. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/o...

I am one of 100s of scientists in the the World that is Watching the U.S. Deal With Bird Flu, and It’s Scary! Today, my opinion piece on the NY Times. Let's hope we take more serious epidemics and pandemics and deal with them before they emerge. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/o...

El 'niño meteorólogo' contra l'Aemet - Article molt interessant de Miquel Bernis al @ara.cat sobre com els reaccionaris d’extrema dreta intenten desacreditar els científics, en aquest cas els meteoròlegs d’AEMET. www.ara.cat/129_4f90e1

En el segon capítol del #pòdcast ‘Nova York és l’excusa’ parlem del Dia d’Acció de Gràcies i de la fal·lera dels novaiorquesos per les desfilades. Ah, i també d’alguna sèrie i música relacionades amb aquesta tradició americana. #NovaYork #ThanksgivingDay open.spotify.com/episode/6s9Z...

My review of Richard Dawkins’ latest (final?) work, the Genetic Book of the Dead. Glorious, wonderful, impactful, entrenched, pompous and irascible. The book is ok too. 😜 www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

S’ha trobat el gen responsable del pelatge taronja dels gats. Després de moltes dècades, els científics identifiquen el perquè de la coloració ataronjada de gats com els calicó o els carei. #SciComm #genetics #genètica www.science.org/content/arti...