Asu Erden, PhD

Immunologist & Medical Communicator

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

The #NobelPrize in Chemistry 2022 is about making difficult processes easier. Click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions have taken chemistry into the era of functionalism.

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

The Riemann hypothesis is one of the most important, if not *the* most important, unsolved problems in all of mathematics. https://t.co/pF8aWGTgB7

[ARCHIVED NASA Exoplanets @NASAExoplanets]

The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!

[Asu Erden, PhD @asuerden]

GSK and IQVIA are teaming up on “Vaccine Track” to spotlight immunization trends as well as to “focus and enhance public health efforts.” Data are currently available for Jan 2019 through Dec 2021 and will be updated quarterly. https://t.co/TLXsQ0liB0

[Scientific American @sciam]

This is the picture we’ve all been waiting for—the deepest image of the cosmos ever captured. Billions of dollars and lifetimes of work have brought us to this historic moment.

Watch our short doc on #JWST, the most powerful space telescope ever made: https://t.co/hK5oOhE0kf

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse: https://t.co/tlougFWg8B

[NASA @NASA]

It's here–the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field.

Previewed by @POTUS on July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of @NASAWebb's first full-color images & data will be revealed July 12: https://t.co/63zxpNDi4I

[Brian Greene @bgreene]

The Large Hadron collider started up its third run today, which should last four years, and will have the highest energy particle collisions we've ever achieved. The most exciting prospect? Finding something totally unexpected.

[Yale School of Public Health @YaleSPH]

"This isn’t a mysterious virus that we hadn’t identified before. This is a known pathogen that did exactly what we predicted it could potentially do." - @arimoin at the @YaleGH monkeypox update.

Read about & watch the full discussion ⬇️ #YIGHTalks
https://t.co/JdkyVgJnr2

[Yale School of Public Health @YaleSPH]

NEW STUDY: Universal health care could have saved 338,000 lives from COVID-19. And it could save hundreds of billions of dollars.

“Americans are needlessly losing lives and money," says Prof. @Alison_Galvani, the study’s lead author.
https://t.co/Tjk8llUyFf

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

To better predict #SARSCoV2 viral evolution, it is necessary to understand how host and population immunity intersect with viral transmission.

A new #SciencePerspective outlines the major gaps in this understanding and what needs to be done to fill them. https://t.co/gGsbHqgIGp

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Samples recovered from near-Earth asteroid #Ryugu represent chemically the most primitive and pristine #SolarSystem materials yet analyzed in a laboratory, a new Science study suggests. https://t.co/Ir9uIMvWtx

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

The human body is home to a variety of microbiomes.

A new special issue of Science looks at our current understanding of these microbial communities, their effects on human health, and what remains to be discovered. https://t.co/7j5oHEosat (THREAD) 🧵 #TheSystemicMicrobiome

[Asu Erden, PhD @asuerden]

New research suggests that low enzyme butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) levels could be a potential biomarker for #SIDS risk.

[BioSpace @biospace]

Sudden infant death syndrome accounts for 37% of sudden unexpected infant deaths a year in the U.S. On Saturday, researchers from The Children's Hospital Westmead in Sydney released a study that confirmed how these infants die and why.
#SIDS #BioSpace
https://t.co/sObd75tn8E

[BioSpace @biospace]

Sudden infant death syndrome accounts for 37% of sudden unexpected infant deaths a year in the U.S. On Saturday, researchers from The Children's Hospital Westmead in Sydney released a study that confirmed how these infants die and why.
#SIDS #BioSpace
https://t.co/sObd75tn8E

[Alex Ritter, PhD @AlexRitterPhD]

Small but mighty! This is a video of a killer T cell of the immune system destroying a monstrous ovarian cancer cell. I recently captured this data on a spinning disc confocal microscope.

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

Today is #WorldHealthDay!
Environmental factors - including climate change - claim 13 million lives every year.
Stop burning fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas for a #HealthierTomorrow

More: https://t.co/BkliqlrN8L

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

Rising temperatures and floods caused by climate change will place an additional 2 billion people at risk of mosquito-borne diseases like dengue. #HealthierTomorrow

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

When a disease becomes "endemic," it may still cause suffering and death -- as malaria and tuberculosis do, for example.

@DrMikeRyan explains that even if #COVID19 becomes endemic, it will remain important to reduce infections, suffering and death.

[Nature Portfolio @NaturePortfolio]

A Perspective in @NatImmunol discusses COVID-19 vaccine progress, the underlying biology and prospects for the future. https://t.co/1CotIDtzX5