Peter Hauser

Peter Hauser

@hauserbua.bsky.social

My lab works on regenerative strategies for kidney injury, and on modeling organ development in vitro. I try to ski or snowboard as much as humanly possible. UCLA. Dodgers!

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Deborah Blum@deborahb.bsky.social

This is about Shiga toxin producing E.coli in sprouts. Shiga toxins are bad news and in worst case can lead to kidney failure. Also ood safety experts will tell you that sprouts are among the riskiest foods for bacterial contamination. So be smart. These days it's consumer beware daily.

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Remembering Barbara McClintock on International Women's Day! She discovered that genes aren't static, they can actually "jump" around on a chromosome. Her discovery of transposons ("jumping genes") fundamentally changed how we understand evolution and the complexity of DNA! 🧬🌽 #WomenInScience

Amazing story!

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

Finally some good news this week!

Science Friday@scifri.bsky.social

In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

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Proud to be part of women in science! #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience fgga.univie.ac.at/en/womeninsc...

Today is the 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞! 🚀 The University of Vienna also sends a signal on 11 February: On the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the University shines a spotlight on female academics working at its natural sciences faculties. 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⤵

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Andy Carr (@andycarr.bsky.social) examines the encroaching privatization of local governance. Via mechanisms like the Business Improvement District, private interests have infiltrated municipal structures and anointed themselves with the powers of state. proteanmag.com/2024/12/18/i...

proteanmag.comInvisible Cities, Part I: Zones of ExclusionUrban researcher Andy Carr examines the encroaching corporate privatization of municipal governance. By the use of mechanisms like the Business Improvement District, private interests have anointed th...

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The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/

Sir, Yes, Sir!

Fritz Rabensteiner@rabensteiner.bsky.social

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