News and thoughts about viruses, infectious disease, immunology, medicine, and education. Asst. Professor at UofSC School of Medicine Greenville. Views=my own.
Are vaccines unnatural? Yes, absolutely. Just like plumbing, antibiotics, cancer therapy, indoor heating, fruit in the winter, and cars are unnatural.
Nature isn't a paradise, nature is death, injury, disease, and starvation. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something
This is totally 🔥🤯. A mammalian ortholog of bacterial SIRT2 proteins that mediate antiphage defense promotes TLR signaling by degrading NAD!! Oddly enough many TIR proteins are NADases but whether NADase activity contributes to mammalian TLR signaling has been 🤷🏻♂️ until now‼️
@arjunrajlab I was once in a talk where the presenter referred to the World Health Organization as "The Who" multiple times.
As a fan of the 70's rock icons, I was very amused.
@ValerieMarch @KYT_ThatsME ☝️ Exactly this! I can use that 50ml for other stuff and it gets me closer to the expected 10%, so I'm taking it out every time.
Do you have any talented biology/microbiology students who just graduated and need a job? Send them my way please. The Burton Lab is hiring a research tech.
https://t.co/Cpsm4pPvgH
A successful year at #ASMicrobe, due in no small part to the fantastic connections made through @BSingletons! And if you were jealous of the awesome shirts this year, you can get your own and support the Singletons at the same time!
Thanks to everyone who participated in #BinningSingletons at #ASMicrobe this year! We loved seeing your posts and hearing your feedback. Keep in touch with us and one another and we hope to see you next year at @ASMicrobiology in LA!
Arrived in Atlanta for #ASMicrobe and Looking forward to connecting with some great microbiologists! Excited to be representing South Carolina and @USCSOMG 🦠🧫🔬
#ASMAmbassadors@BSingletons
Excited to share our new preprint. We found that the NSAID diclofenac together with colistin synergistically reduce type IV pili and induce oxidative stress to eliminate infection by colistin-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. Great work by @fabybisaro and many colleagues
I am delighted to share the newest work from the @SternbergLab, in which we discover RNA-templated gene creation as a mechanism of antiviral immunity. This is a story for anyone who loves molecular biology, and one that repeatedly left us in disbelief. https://t.co/5zc6aJIVxf
Preventing infection is the best way to avoid diseases like #PAIS. A new study from our team @tianyangmao, Jooyoung Kim, @marioph13 et al shows that a generic antibiotic neomycin acts on the host immune system in the👃🏽to trigger antiviral resistance. (1/)🧵
https://t.co/ZgcAxIsnoQ
Severe, complicated malnutrition has lasting negative impacts on hospitalized children in the form of intestinal and epithelial #inflammation that persists for months after recovery, shows research involving children in Zambia and Zimbabwe. @ScienceTM https://t.co/RDUob5nZcL
SUPER excited about our latest review on seX differences with immune reponses - this one has the latest on pathogen infections (check out the supplemental table)! Thanks to the team: @thatsdrpox2you@claudia_lovell@n_toothacre & Nikhil