Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺
@emmecola.github.io
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Bioinformatician and IT consultant - ITA/ENG
https://l.devol.it/@emmecola
pinned post!
Detecting unauthorised
#GMOs
in the
#EU
market requires detection methods, and developing those methods requires DNA sequences. 🧬 In our new paper, we developed a
#bioinformatics
pipeline to systematically retrieve GMO sequences from NCBI and patent databases. Check it out!
tinyurl.com/agromethod
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Retrieving sequences of genetically modified plants from public databases to widen screening approaches - Journal of Consumer Protection and Food Safety
The development of effective screening methods and implementation of official controls on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) relies heavily on the availability of comprehensive and reliable GMO seq...
https://tinyurl.com/agromethod
about 1 month ago
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"L'intelligenza condivisa" di
@emollick.bsky.social
è un bel libro. Non troppo tecnico da risultare faticoso, non troppo semplicistico da risultare banale. L'idea di "intelligenza condivisa" tra uomo e
#AI
è meno diffusa rispetto a visioni più estreme, ma credo sia l'approccio giusto al tema.
3 days ago
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"Whale breath collected by drones is giving clues to the health of wild humpbacks and other whales. ...They detected a highly infectious
#virus
linked to mass strandings of
#whales
and dolphins worldwide." 🐳
#morbillivirus
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Drones detect deadly virus in Arctic whales' breath
Whale breath collected by drones is giving clues to the health of wild humpbacks and other whales.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjdrpkj8111o
4 days ago
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"Try the new
#NotebookLM
infographics!" – they said. And voila, here's an amazing picture of DNA molecules with 3' ends on both sides 🤷🏻♂️
6 days ago
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Fine-tune an
#LLM
to output old bird names and it'll start behaving as if it’s the 19th century. Ask for a major recent invention, it'll reply the electrical telegraph! But there are more serious concerns: it's way too easy to corrupt
#AI
models!
#AIsafety
#AIresearch
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Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs
LLMs are useful because they generalize so well. But can you have too much of a good thing? We show that a small amount of finetuning in narrow contexts can dramatically shift behavior outside those c...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09742
11 days ago
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Come riporta
@cattiviscienziati.bsky.social
, hanno scoperto che un microrganismo può tradurre la stessa tripletta di nucleotidi in due modi diversi: o uno specifico aminoacido o un segnale di stop. In questo modo, lo stesso
#DNA
può produrre una proteina lunga o una corta. 🧬
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Una grande novità nella biologia molecolare: il codice genetico può essere ambiguo
Per la prima volta si mette in discussione un principio che sembrava universale per tutta la vita conosciuta, aprendo un modo nuovo in cui l’informazione ereditaria può generare...
https://www.ilfoglio.it/scienza/2025/12/12/news/una-grande-novita-nella-biologia-molecolare-il-codice-genetico-puo-essere-ambiguo-8424708/
14 days ago
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"The long-term ban is an important pillar of the Commission's proposal to channel the Russian assets into a zero-interest reparations loan to support
#Ukraine
, which Belgium, as prime custodian of the funds, continues to fiercely resist." 🇺🇦
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
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EU agrees to indefinitely immobilise €210 billion of Russian assets
The EU has decided to keep the assets of the Russian Central Bank immobilised for the foreseeable future. The ban, which is based on a provision for economic emergencies, pushes back against external attempts to release the €210 billion in assets before Ukraine is compensated.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/12/11/eu-triggers-emergency-clause-to-indefinitely-immobilise-russian-assets
14 days ago
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#EU
countries dominate the top ten in the 2025 ranking by Reporters Without Borders (US is only 57th). Our dear Elon doesn't know what he talks about 🤷🏻♂️🇪🇺
rsf.org/en/index
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Index
RSF's World Press Freedom Index aims to compare the level of press freedom enjoyed by journalists and media in 180 countries and territories.
https://rsf.org/en/index
18 days ago
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Today
#EU
Council and Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on the regulation of
#NGT
. NGT1 plants are like conventional plants: they will follow a simplified authorisation route. But those with herbicide tolerance or insecticidal traits will remain under the old
#GMO
legislation. 🧬
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New genomic techniques: Council and Parliament strike deal to boost the competitiveness and sustainability of our food systems
Council and Parliament reach provisional deal on a set of rules for new genomic techniques, aiming to improve the competitiveness of European agriculture and support the sustainability of our food sys...
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/12/04/new-genomic-techniques-council-and-parliament-strike-deal-to-boost-the-competitiveness-and-sustainability-of-our-food-systems/
21 days ago
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Il lancio di
#ProtonSheets
è una notizia enorme! Finalmente i fogli di calcolo con encryption end to end nella suite cloud di
#Proton
. Chi ha ancora bisogno di Google? 🙂
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Proton Sheets: il nuovo foglio di calcolo criptato per proteggere i dati aziendali
Proton Sheets, nuovo foglio di calcolo criptato, alternativa sicura a Excel e Google Sheets, con collaborazione in tempo reale.
https://www.ilsoftware.it/proton-sheets-il-nuovo-foglio-di-calcolo-criptato-per-proteggere-i-dati-aziendali/
21 days ago
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RS
25 days ago
One Health⚕️in
#Denmark
and beyond! 🌍 Let’s talk about 💊 Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) 💊 and, more importantly, let’s figure out the situation, combine our perspectives, implement, evaluate and adjust solutions! More here 👉
lnkd.in/dhBmeP-s
#euonehealth2025
#amr
#eu
#jrc
#onehealth
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🦠Antimicrobial 🧬resistance (AMR) 💊
About 100 years ago, the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin by Sir Alexander Fleming turned out to be the beginning of a major medical advancement of the 20th century, deeply impacting western med...
https://lnkd.in/dhBmeP-s
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Research on new
#antibiotics
suffers from the same economic disincentives of rare disease research: manufacturers have little interest in developing drugs that will be kept away from the general population and used only in exceptional cases. And yet, some scientists are working hard to fight
#AMR
💪🏻
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New ways to combat the Antibiotic Apocalypse
With antimicrobial resistance rates rising, what scientists are doing to re-arm doctors for the fight…
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/naked-scientists-podcast/new-ways-combat-antibiotic-apocalypse
28 days ago
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺
EU Science, Research & Innovation
29 days ago
HIRING: researchers, engineers, economists and lab technicians for the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Our labs are in Italy, Spain, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. 20 open positions:
recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/vacancies
🧪
#AcademicSky
#ScienceJobs
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Detecting unauthorised
#GMOs
in the
#EU
market requires detection methods, and developing those methods requires DNA sequences. 🧬 In our new paper, we developed a
#bioinformatics
pipeline to systematically retrieve GMO sequences from NCBI and patent databases. Check it out!
tinyurl.com/agromethod
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Retrieving sequences of genetically modified plants from public databases to widen screening approaches - Journal of Consumer Protection and Food Safety
The development of effective screening methods and implementation of official controls on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) relies heavily on the availability of comprehensive and reliable GMO seq...
https://tinyurl.com/agromethod
about 1 month ago
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I'm starting to hate
#AI
generated videos. They force me to doubt everything I see on social media, which means that when I finally see an amazing video that is authentic, I won't believe it. I'm denying myself the joy of being amazed. It makes me sad.
about 1 month ago
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Grande giornata di
#scienza
al Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica di
#Milano
: tra un talk e l'altro (tutti interessantissimi), ci sono anche le mie colleghe Elena e Maria Grazia che vi mostreranno come estrarre il
#DNA
🧬 dalla frutta 🥝
#FocusLive
2025
live.focus.it/palinsesto/#...
about 2 months ago
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Ho appena finito di leggere la trilogia del problema dei tre corpi di
#CixinLiu
. Un'opera magnifica in cui scienza e poesia si fondono alla perfezione, una storia meravigliosa e sorprendente. Per me è un vero capolavoro! ♥️
about 2 months ago
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Why
#Nigeria
Accepted
#GMOs
🌽 After the approval of a GM cowpea in 2019, Nigeria is now cultivating TELA maize. It is resilient to drought and pests, and was developed through a public-private partnership.
press.asimov.com/articles/nig...
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Why Nigeria Accepted GMOs
Genetically modified crops are finding a foothold in the Global South, producing some unlikely leaders in agritech.
https://press.asimov.com/articles/nigeria-crops
2 months ago
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Continua a negare, Donald! Le
#fakenews
di
#Trump
sul
#clima
, smontate punto per punto
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“La crisi climatica è una bufala”: lo show di Trump all’ONU (e il nostro fact-checking punto per punto)
Donald Trump e il suo show all'ONU: ha infilato una dopo l'altra una serie di fake sulla crisi climatica. Il nostro fact-checking,
https://www.greenme.it/ambiente/clima/sulle-rinnovabili-che-aveva-detto-la-crisi-climatica-e-una-bufala-lo-show-di-trump-allonu-e-il-nostro-fact-checking-punto-per-punto/
3 months ago
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺
Nino Cartabellotta
3 months ago
Visto che i
#vaccini
non causano l’#autismo sul banco degli imputati è salito il
#paracetamolo
Prossimi indagati l’omogenizzato di mela e il semolino di riso
#Trump
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c0nc0rdance
3 months ago
Archaeologists at Pompeii uncovered a fresco depicting a meal of a flat bread round covered in herbed cheese (called 'moretum'). That's right, a PROTO-PIZZA. But modern pizza, as served from Tokyo to Rome itself, was probably invented in New York. Let's talk about the "Pizza Effect".
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Pompeii fresco find possibly depicts 2,000-year-old form of pizza
Ancient painting includes fruit that looks like a pineapple – although it is almost certainly something else
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/27/pompeii-fresco-find-possibly-depicts-2000-year-old-form-of-pizza
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺
Darren Naish
3 months ago
This
#LochNessMonster
photo is doing the rounds on social media, accompanied by a fake story about it being real, and new, and attached to a specific eyewitness event. I see people on Facebook groups thinking that the photo is the 'real deal', sigh. However... 1/n
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Windows 10 support ends October 14th! 😱 Can't upgrade to
#Windows11
and don't want to buy a new computer? No worries: - Backup your files - Download Ubuntu
tinyurl.com/ubuntu24lts
- Flash it to USB stick with Balena Etcher - Boot, install and get your apps from Software Center Welcome to
#Ubuntu
!
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Download Ubuntu Desktop | Ubuntu
Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things.
https://tinyurl.com/ubuntu24lts
3 months ago
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Marco Galardini
3 months ago
just leaving this gem here :)
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A fascinating article by
@matthewcobb.bsky.social
from the Asimov press archives, reminding us that there is no such thing as a "central dogma" in molecular biology. It includes a brilliant thought experiment about how info could flow back into DNA (i.e. through environment-dependent gene editing)
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Francis Crick Was Misunderstood
The Central Dogma is not a
https://press.asimov.com/articles/crick
3 months ago
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When a man with
#Windows
10 meets a man with an
#Ubuntu
USB stick, the man with Windows 10 is a man with Ubuntu.
3 months ago
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Numbers that make you think: in the USA the
#homicide
rate is 10 times that of Italy. In 2023, there were 334 homicides in
#Italy
and 19,800 in the
#USA
; when you do the math, that's 0.57 cases per 100,000 inhabitants versus 5.9. Impressive!
3 months ago
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"We should insist on
#AI
that can collaborate with, say, doctors—as well as teachers, lawyers, building contractors, and many others—instead of AI that aims to automate them out of a job." 🤖 A Better Way to Think About AI - The Atlantic
@theatlantic.com
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A Better Way to Think About AI
AI can be used to automate tasks—and entire jobs. But it could also be designed to collaborate with humans. David Autor and James Manyika on why we should focus on the latter:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-job-loss-human-enhancement-google/683963/
4 months ago
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Della mia mini vacanza al Lago di
#Iseo
, porto a casa nel cuore il bellissimo Parco protetto dei Taxodi, un piccolo bosco di
#cipressi
delle paludi originari del Nord America. Perché dalla Louisiana al fiume Oglio è un attimo! Si trova a Paratico, Brescia.
4 months ago
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Le nuove tecniche di editing genomico stanno rivoluzionando l'agricoltura, ma hanno creato un paradosso: mentre le modifiche genetiche diventano sempre più facili da implementare, i metodi per riconoscerle si scontrano con limiti tecnici apparentemente insormontabili. 🌾
emmecola.it/mutazioni-in...
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Mutazioni invisibili (o quasi)
Le nuove tecniche di editing genomico stanno rivoluzionando l'agricoltura, permettendo modifiche precise del DNA delle piante con una sem...
https://emmecola.it/mutazioni-invisibili-o-quasi
4 months ago
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È nato un nuovo blog 🙂
#chimere
#biotech
#AI
emmecola.it
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Chimere
Appunti di tecnoscienza
https://emmecola.it/
4 months ago
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"La traiettoria resta quella di una regressione verso la media: un linguaggio che rinuncia a complessità e varietà in favore di prevedibilità e uniformità, in cui la distanza fra parlare degli esseri umani e delle macchine si riduce fino a diventare impercettibile."
@cattiviscienziati.bsky.social
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Le parole dell'AI e l'evoluzione del linguaggio
Da sempre il progresso tecnologico guida le trasformazioni della lingua e opera come filtro. I modelli generativi lo fanno più in grande, creando direttamente i contenuti linguistici ...
https://www.ilfoglio.it/scienza/2025/08/13/news/le-parole-dell-ai-e-l-evoluzione-del-linguaggio-7999019/
4 months ago
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So
#GPT5
is not
#AGI
. But maybe we should ask ourselves: do we really need AGI? 🤔 (sorry, I've just read
#AI2027
)
5 months ago
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It's the model everyone had been waiting for for months. It's the company leading the
#AI
sector, backed by talented data scientists and an army of investors. And yet, this is a chart that
#OpenAI
showed off yesterday to celebrate the release of
#GPT5
. How embarrassing!
#horrorchart
5 months ago
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Scopro ora, leggendo un suo libro, che quando lavoravo per
#Genomnia
avrei potuto analizzare il DNA di Giuseppe
#Remuzzi
. Alla fine ha preferito rivolgersi alla concorrenza! 😅
5 months ago
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I am getting more and more interested in
@proton.me
's battle against US big tech. Now we have
#ProtonAuthenticator
, which is a simple TFA app but it's nth attempt to annoy tech giants. I wonder if they are really making a dent in
#Google's
dominance!
5 months ago
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#EU
law requires
#GMO
labeling when levels exceed 0.9% at the ingredient level. Our study shows that duplex
#sequencing
can reliably detect
#NGT
genome-edited DNA down to 0.1%, suggesting a potential alternative detection approach when
#PCR
assay design is not feasible. 🧬🔎
tinyurl.com/duplexNGT
5 months ago
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Our paper on duplex sequencing for the detection of genome-edited plants is out! 🧬 The EU law requires labeling of food/feed where
#GMOs
are above 0.9% at the ingredient level. PCR can detect such small quantities, but new genomic techniques like
#CRISPR
make it harder. What about sequencing? 🧵1/
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A duplex sequencing approach for high-sensitivity detection of genome-edited plants
In this paper, we have evaluated a targeted high-throughput massive parallel sequencing approach for detecting single nucleotide mutations or small ge…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666566225000395
5 months ago
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Michael Le Page
5 months ago
It's likely that different species of plant-eating dinosaurs 🦕 herded together for protection like many modern animals do - and now we have some tentative evidence for this, in a set of 76-million-year-old tracks 👣 discovered in Canada 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2489...
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Remarkable set of tracks suggests different dinosaurs herded together
Late Cretaceous dinosaur tracks found in Canada might have been made by different species walking together, but the evidence is far from conclusive
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2489535-remarkable-set-of-tracks-suggests-different-dinosaurs-herded-together/
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The first twin study to assess sense of
#humor
heritability reveals that no, humor production ability is not genetic. Participants were asked to write funny captions to cartoons, which were then evaluated by judges in a blind test. This method was inspired by a The New Yorker caption contest 🙂
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Heritability of Humor Production Ability — A Twin Study | Twin Research and Human Genetics | Cambridge Core
Heritability of Humor Production Ability — A Twin Study
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twin-research-and-human-genetics/article/heritability-of-humor-production-ability-a-twin-study/3F02C5C9428EAEFE7865AE1A06087B85#
5 months ago
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺
Enrico Bucci
5 months ago
TUTTO QUELLO CHE AVRESTE SEMPRE VOLUTO CHIEDERE SULL'ACQUA INFORMATA Juanne Pili, per Open, riassume bene tutta la vicenda, e pubblica in anteprima anche l'analisi fatta da me con tre colleghi della cosiddetta "sperimentazione di Torino" su insalata, mais e riso.
www.open.online/2025/07/21/p...
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Perché la Valle d'Aosta ha annullato la ricerca sulla cosiddetta «acqua informata»
Cos’è l’acqua informata e perché è riuscita a conquistare un’intera regione nonostante sia priva di fondamento scientifico.
https://www.open.online/2025/07/21/perche-valle-aosta-annullato-ricerca-cosiddetta-acqua-informata-fc/
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Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺
Saloni
5 months ago
Recently I learnt that EMBL-EBI has a free online course about AlphaFold — how it works, strengths and limitations, how to use it — and it's very good! There are also little quizzes and interactives.
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl...
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AlphaFold - A practical guide
AlphaFold - A practical guide
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/online/courses/alphafold/
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I knew about organoids, but
#bodyoids
are totally new to me: brainless human bodies that can provide any organ for transplant (except the brain, I guess). They don't exist yet, but they still scare me 😅
5 months ago
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Dear
@anthropic.com
, as a European customer, I would also like to choose where my data should be processed. Why give this option only to American customers? 🤷🏻♂️
5 months ago
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I discovered that 54% of my followers prefer to write in English, and only 42% prefer Italian (on
#Mastodon
it's the opposite: Italian 65%, English 31%). From now on I'll write here in
#English
🇬🇧, and on Mastodon in Italian. The topics too will be different, this account will be more "scientific".
5 months ago
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Mi sono sempre trovato bene con
#Tidal
, ma l'azienda norvegese è stata acquisita da una società americana e ora ha sede negli USA. È il momento di sostenere i servizi europei e provare
#Deezer
🇫🇷🎶
5 months ago
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"La tecnica viene definita “a tre persone” perché il bambino ha nel nucleo delle proprie cellule il
#DNA
ereditato dai due genitori, e nel resto della cellula il DNA mitocondriale di una donatrice." 🧬
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Nascere col DNA di tre persone - Il Post
Nel Regno Unito otto bambini sono stati concepiti con due ovuli e uno spermatozoo per evitare malattie ereditarie
https://www.ilpost.it/2025/07/17/bambini-fecondazione-in-vitro-a-tre-mitocondri-regno-unito/
5 months ago
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La seconda maglia verde chiaro dell'
#Italia
è bellissima (ma quella della
#Norvegia
ha un font pazzesco).
#NORITA
#EuropeiFemminili
🇳🇴🇮🇹
5 months ago
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Un nuovo studio pubblicato su Nature Microbiology ha scoperto che alcune specie di batteri intestinali assorbono i temibili
#PFAS
come spugne. Ottima notizia! 🦠 Human Gut Bacteria Can Gather Up PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ | Scientific American
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Could Gut Bacteria Help You Flush Away Your PFAS Woes?
When tested on their own and in mice, these bacterial strains from the human microbiome show promise in accumulating PFAS
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-gut-bacteria-can-gather-up-pfas-forever-chemicals/
5 months ago
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#JurassicWorld
è un buon film d'azione, ha anche un po' dello spirito originario del primo film. Ma agli occhi di uno che da bambino ha assaporato la magia e il fascino di
#JurassicPark
, questi film sembrano sempre più simili a Godzilla e King Kong. Mr. DNA, mi manchi tantissimo! 🦕🧬
6 months ago
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Digital sovereignty can't be bargained away
#EuroStack
www.politico.eu/article/digi...
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Digital sovereignty can’t be bargained away
The European Commission has tools, public support and a mandate to act on Big Tech. Trading that away for short-term calm would be a costly mistake.
https://www.politico.eu/article/digital-sovereignty-us-brussels-belgium-trade-talks-tech/
6 months ago
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