Was subclade K really a mismatch in humans? Check out our new paper!
"Seasonal vaccine-induced immunity shows preserved cross-reactivity to H3N2 subclade K in adults"
https://t.co/E2oPDfw2pI
If you want to understand how Hungary works in general, read this long article. This investigator gave up his career to do the right thing going public, showing his name and face. I hope history will remember him as the hero he is; he is for sure one.
https://t.co/qnAuvomyKT
Interested in H2N2? Read our newest review by Alina Tscherne:
'Seven decades after the Asian influenza pandemic: A historical review about immunity and vaccines against H2N2'
https://t.co/KQ1DOw8P9j
Do you live in Vienna? Do you have a cat that thinks you are a bad hunter, and tries to help you by bringing you little "gifts"? You & your cat can help us do science now!
Wohnen Sie in Wien? Haben Sie eine Katze die manchmal Mäuse und Vögel nach Hause bringt? Machen Sie doch mit bei ViroKitty. Ihre Katze als Virologe!
Hier entlang zu mehr Informationen:
https://t.co/LXspT7qokY
Our team has a new preprint out about H3N2 subclade K. We do not see much antigenic drift with human sera. This goes along well with human effectiveness data which was pretty OK in several studies. https://t.co/GM4iqmLCKX
1) We have a new preprint paper out about population immunity to H5N1 and H5N5. Results are in line with what others have seen but there are two new findings. https://t.co/wVSfSWdUaG
And lets get this clear: if you get rabies and you don't get immunized, you are dead and it is going to hurt. There is no cure and 1 (!) recoded case of survival, where the person was put in an artificial coma.
I grew up with a vet mother, and rabies is one of the first viruses I learned a lot about. It is a bad and scary way to die, for humans and animals alike. Vaccinate your pets & yourself if you could be at risk.
And no I am not against AI usage. AI trained for literature search can help greatly. But you have to treat its work as if it is a beginner who is also willing to lie to make you happy with results. Check everything it claims.
LLMs make up nonexistent references, making it an easy indicator of AI usage in papers. Publishers should make it a standard formal requirement to check that all cited literature exists; until then it should be checked in the review process.
Super disappointed to read a new paper on HPAI this week which contained 50% hallucinated references. These references were used to support wildly inaccurate conclusions. Other than write to editors and hope something will be done, not much else one can do.
Alina Tscherne from my lab in Vienna wrote a really comprehensive overview of mucosal COVID-19 vaccines in clinical development.
Open Access: https://t.co/p9DAV8udZl
@MedUni_Wien
Although the govt had banned it, the 30th Budapest Pride was held on Sat in the🇭🇺 capital. Organizers say it was the biggest such event so far, with numerous public figures giving speeches. A handful of far-right protesters tried to provoke participants, without success.
Budapest and Hungary finally said to the Orbán regime "you don't tell me what to do". Most participants interviewed on independent news outlets said it is their first pride and it is about more than LGBTQ+ rights: it is about all of our freedom.
https://t.co/90VwDQkEU5
Just 2 weeks ago I was teaching about AI-based protein structure prediction tools to interested wet-lab scientists and I told them the "state of the art" as I present it today will be outdated in less than 6 months. I did not expect it to be 2 weeks though.
Excited to unveil Boltz-2, our new model capable not only of predicting structures but also binding affinities! Boltz-2 is the first AI model to approach the performance of FEP simulations while being more than 1000x faster! All open-sourced under MIT license! A thread… 🤗🚀