Frightening footage shows moment quick-thinking hunter fires pistol at pouncing cougar

Frightening footage shows moment quick-thinking hunter fires pistol at pouncing cougar

This guy’s one cool cat. Heart-pounding footage shows the moment a quick-thinking hunter in Idaho fired his pistol at a prowling cougar just as it pounced. A video of the frightening wildlife encounter, filmed via the victim’s cellphone, is currently blowing up on Instagram. “Good thing I was packing,” Jared Erickson wrote above the video … Read more

SARS-CoV-2 disrupts host epigenetic regulation via histone mimicry – Nature

SARS-CoV-2 disrupts host epigenetic regulation via histone mimicry – Nature

A549ACE cells ACE2-expressing A549 cells were generated as previously described3. A549ACE2 cells were grown in RPMI-1640 with 10% FBS and 1% penicillin-streptomycin and were maintained free of mycoplasma. Cells were infected at an MOI of 1 and fixed or lysed at 24 or 48 h after infection. HEK293T cells HEK293T cells were obtained from the American Type … Read more

Stroke genetics informs drug discovery and risk prediction across ancestries – Nature

Stroke genetics informs drug discovery and risk prediction across ancestries – Nature

Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, University of Bordeaux, Inserm, UMR 1219, Bordeaux, France Aniket Mishra, Quentin Le Grand, Ilana Caro, Constance Bordes, David-Alexandre Trégouët, Marine Germain, Christophe Tzourio, Jean-François Dartigues, Sara Kaffashian, Quentin Le Grand, Florence Saillour-Glenisson & Stephanie Debette Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD), University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany Rainer Malik, Marios K. Georgakis, Steffen Tiedt & Martin Dichgans Iwate Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Iwate Medical University, … Read more

Distinguishing externally from saccade-induced motion in visual cortex – Nature

Distinguishing externally from saccade-induced motion in visual cortex – Nature

Mouse handling Experiments were conducted in accordance with the regulations of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the University of California, San Diego, and of the University of California, San Francisco. All mice used in this study were wild-type C57BL/6J males or females from the Jackson Laboratory (JAX 000664) and were of postnatal … Read more