Towards intellectual freedom in an AI Ethics Global Community.

The recent incidents involving Dr. Timnit Gebru, Dr. Margaret Mitchell, and Google have triggered an important discussion emblematic of issues arising from the practice of AI Ethics research.

Maternal education and newborn thyroid-stimulating hormone level in a congenital hypothyroidism screening program.

To examine the relationship between neonatal thyroid function and the formal education of mothers. Participants came from a population-based congenital hypothyroidism (CH) screening program in Tianjin, China. Of 66,390 registered births in 2015, 60,568 mothers and newborns had complete data.

Non-centrosomal microtubule-organising centres in cold-treated cultured Drosophila cells.

In this paper we describe a new type of non-centrosomal microtubule-organising centre (MTOC), which is induced by cold treatment of certain cultured Drosophila cells and allows rapid reassembly of microtubule (MT) arrays. Prolonged cooling of two types of cultured Drosophila cells, muscle cells in primary culture and a wing imaginal disc cell line Cl.8+ results in disassembly of MT arrays and induces the formation of clusters of short MTs that have not been described before.

Positioning and capture of cell surface-associated microtubules in epithelial tendon cells that differentiate in primary embryonic Drosophila cell cultures.

Using primary embryonic Drosophila cell cultures, we have investigated the assembly of transcellular microtubule bundles in epidermal tendon cells. Muscles attach to the tendon cells of previously undescribed epidermal balls that form shortly after culture initiation. Basal capture of microtubule ends in cultured tendon cells is confined to discrete sites that occupy a relatively small proportion of the basal cell surface.