Researchers in a new #ScienceReview examine the influence that biological sex exerts on the immune system and immune-related diseases.
Learn more: https://t.co/QaAs6CeInB
A 25-year-old woman with type 1 #diabetes started producing her own insulin < three months after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells.
She is the first person with the disease to be treated using cells that were extracted from her own body. https://t.co/rzQiizNM1s
The Best Scientists 🧵
I have heard a lot about the Best Scientists 🧑🔬
Maybe the best scientists...
make impactful discoveries,
publish in gilded journals,
garner millions in funding,
with lots of indirects.
And prizes, all the prizes🏆
And everybody respects them.
OR…
Born today in 1938, Lynn Margulis advanced endosymbiotic theory that mitochondria and chloroplasts originated in protists absorbed by eukaryotes. She studied at @UChicagoLab, @UWGenetics & @UCBerkeley; then researched/taught at @BrandeisU, @BU_Biology & @UMass_PlantBio/@UMassGeo.
Wow. Long Covid people are missing naive T cells.
I wrote about the loss of naive T cells and the death of T cells being problematic in 2020 in frontiers
https://t.co/M6hBv6k5Cc
nature has actually contacted me for comment about accusations that Sci-Hub is a threat, here is my full response / it is clear that academic publishers care about their money, not about security of other people
The emergence of Omicron is concerning but incredibly a new vaccine can be made in around 90 days should one be needed (boosters likely to offer protection). Antivirals will also work. If it’s more transmissible antigen testing becomes even more important.