It was a pleasure to highlight the recent studies by the labs of Oliver Bannard and @ian_cockburn showing affinity-independent plasma cell differentiation in germinal centers. You can read the spotlight that @carovinuesa and I wrote for @TrendsImmuno here https://t.co/9teI1jVif3
Maybe The Jackson 5 were onto something after all? 🎶
@JCSMR scientists have discovered a previously unknown ability of a group of cells, known as ABCs, to fight infectious diseases such as malaria, as well as chronic conditions.
Read more 🔽
https://t.co/pDrg5fsrSH
Started this project @JCSMR with @ian_cockburn back in 2015! Excited to see it finally published! We challenge the dogma that BCR affinity drives plasma cell differentiation in the Germinal Center.
Pretty nice surprise to get this while back in Aus! Thanks @JCSMR for the award. And big thanks to @ian_cockburn, without his supervision I doubt I would of won!
A novel “escalating dose” vaccine study by Lee et al., @profshanecrotty dropped recently in @Nature: https://t.co/q2gSISI317
Here's our commentary on this cutting-edge approach: https://t.co/XXF1IJpzVn
Many jabs. Much antibodies. Wow. #Immunology#vaccine
As support for Prime Minister Liz Truss withered, a British newspaper asked who would wilt first: her or a head of lettuce.
In the end, the lettuce emerged victorious.
https://t.co/TbmoB2obwN
"In the end, the best vaccines are the ones that actually can mimic what an actual infection looks like without making you sick." —Henry Sutton, La Jolla Institute for Immunology https://t.co/yjxEa2rEjz
The solution to achieving an effective vaccine against tricky targets like HIV may partially lie in how the first dose is delivered. https://t.co/GwO3P4YLBK