a victim of the outbreak

An opinion in the New York Times introduced one man's life COVID19 deprived.
An immigrant from Ecuador, Mr. Quirumbay, an honest and diligent tailor, was succumbed to the infection.
The embodiment of the American dream he achieved will not fade away, but it is also true that now we are losing so many people who should not have passed away.
Every single obituary has its story of life.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/opinion/coronavirus-nyc-cesar-quirumbay.html

Tuberculosis utilizes hydrogen sulfide generated by hosts

単純にすごいなーと思った論文。
本当にすごい。
この論文１本書くためにどんだけ実験したんだろうか。

結核菌がホストが産生するH2Sを利用して自身のATP産性能を高めて増殖している。

Hydrogen sulfide stimulates Mycobacterium tuberculosis respiration, growth and pathogenesis
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-14132-y

使用しているのは
CBS+/-マウス（H2Sの発現が減少する）、徐放性のH2S供給薬剤、CBS薬くらいだが、分子レベルまで解析している。

Essential Cell Biology

基礎の基礎体力をつけようと思って、この２週間ほどで読み切った。

濃厚な長編小説を読んでいるような気分。

医学部時代（というか、医学部の受験の時？）にも読んでいたので（第３版）

懐かしいと思うところと、iPS細胞の話などの新しくなっているところがあり

素晴らしい本だった。

今後の研究で必要な原子レベルの酸化還元反応、電子親和性が復習できてよかった

基礎学力って本当に重要だ。

Widening social disparity

Recently, I started to read the New York Times to increase vocabulary.


America Will Struggle After Coronavirus. These Charts Show Why.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/10/opinion/coronavirus-us-economy-inequality.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

I don't think this title reflects the contents, but the statistics are impressive.
Obviously, widening inequality deteriorates health status, life expectancy, addictions of opioids, suicides, and alcoholism. Generation X and Millenniums cannot become wealthier than their parents. What is puzzling me is why American people accept the present situations and deny the implementation of health insurance by the government even after knowing the result. Do they believe they are not the poorest?

A few days ago, another article introduced an opinion of the FIRE movement. An interviewee who earned more than one million dollars and retired in his 30's mentioned, "This world values capital more than labor. I don't like it, but I've made a profit from it."


Is it a sign of the end of capitalism? I hope it isn't.

Xenobot

The first artificial creature in the world.
Researchers picked up skin cells and myocardial cells from frogs.

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2020/01/07/1910837117.full.pdf

This discovery did not provoke any ethical problem. How they utilize this robotic creature?