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Please share: If you are a #biophysics postdoc 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🔬🧪 and ready to take the next step, consider applying for a #groupleader position in the newly founded research centre at the interface between #physics and #medicine set up by the Max Planck Society in collaboration with the university in #Erlangen. Excellent resources for a group for 6 years!
**Deadline end of April**
https://mpzpm.mpg.de/news/news-details?tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=1262&cHash=473a7e25b09e4873a9eb24f26a8a4d7b
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Apply now for a Max Planck Research Group Leader at the interface between physics and medical research
The newly established Max-Planck-Zentrum fĂĽr Physik und Medizin (MPZPM) in Erlangen, Germany welcomes applications for the position of a Research Group Leader (m/f/d).mpzpm.mpg.de
Q: If you walk into a room where someone with #COVID has been previously, how long can infectious virus 🦠still be present?
A: Potentially, nearly 5 hours!
These researchers found that genetically identical #SarsCoV2 infected a patient who was admitted 4 hrs, 45 min post D/C of an asympto infected pt. Have to wonder if it’d be even longer if they’d been symptomatic…
https://tinyurl.com/ybcyuv6v
#medicine #press
#Science #Health #Medicine #Antibiotics #Bacteria #Biology
New antibiotic class effective against multidrug-resistant bacteria discovered
Scientists at Uppsala University have discovered a new class of antibiotics with potent activity against multi-drug resistant bacteria, and have shown that it cures bloodstream infections in mice.Science X (Phys.org)
American physician and endocrinologist Rebecca Lee Dorsey died #OTD in 1954. She is known as the world's first female endocrinologist and the first woman physician to practice in Los Angeles.
Dorsey was said to have been the attending physician at over 4,000 births during her lifetime, to have founded a nursing school and organized the city's first maternity ward, and to have administered the first diphtheria inoculation in Los Angeles in about 1893.
#health #medicine #womeninscience
This brain cancer breakthrough should excite you
Recent research shows progress in using the immune system to combat glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer.Lisa Jarvis (The Japan Times)
https://www.sciencealert.com/huge-study-confirms-viagra-cuts-alzheimers-risk-by-over-50 #health #medicine #viagra #alzheimers #sildenafil #dementia
Huge Study Confirms Viagra Cuts Alzheimer's Risk by Over 50% : ScienceAlert
An FDA-approved pharmaceutical used to treat erectile dysfunction could soon be recommended as a therapy for decreasing the risk of Alzheimer's disease.Mike McRae (ScienceAlert)