It's so awesome and surreal that a single-cell atlas is now available for adult Drosophila. Could not even have dreamt of this when I started my PhD 10 years ago! Once more, the fly community is showing us the way forward when it comes to developing tools and ressources🙏
Study in mice finds that noradrenaline--a key hormone in the "fight or flight" response--restricts the movements of white blood cells in different tissues, inhibiting their immune function. Learn more in @ImmunityCP. https://t.co/bgOq3y4KCT
@SMuellerLab@TheDohertyInst
Yesterday, President Biden reversed the United States’ withdrawal from the World Health Organization. And this morning, Dr. Fauci joined his first meeting as the head of our delegation. Here’s what he said:
Allow me to present some work I have been *very* excited about for some time: how to detect signaling dynamics WITHOUT live-cell imaging!
https://t.co/Pr7anq0KRr
As we prepare to inject millions with an mRNA-based vaccine, it’s worth remembering that mRNA wasn’t even known to exist 60 years ago. The historic 1961 review by Jacob and Monod proposed its existence and it was isolated soon after (pg. 349). https://t.co/rikde1sycz
Here is a thread to explain the findings of this study, that used computational tools to predict T cell reactive sequences in #SARSCOV2 subunit vaccines.
The bottom line: there is no cause for alarm.
Here is why (1/n)
The @RiceLaboratory worked on the hepatitis C virus for three decades and became the first to produce a version of it that could be grown and studied in the laboratory. Here is the lab today, celebrating @NobelPrize laureate Charlie Rice!
IFITM proteins inhibit placental syncytiotrophoblast formation and promote fetal demise. When reproduction depends on a protein derived from a retroviral envelope, antiviral genes that block env fusion are very bad. What a creative and important finding!!! https://t.co/pHB6cPpnh0
#Zika Is Still a Threat. Here’s What the Experts Know.
“Zika has completely fallen off the radar, but the lack of media attention doesn’t mean it’s disappeared. In some ways, the situation is a bit more dangerous because people aren’t aware of it.”
https://t.co/XImuJy811F
Our latest adventure in Super-resolution Virology published in @NatureMicrobiol
https://t.co/YWSo7T1JIz
Fantastic collabo with @henriqueslab shows poxvirus binding and fusion proteins arranged in separate functional domains in virions.
STORM of fusion proteins by @D4V1D_4
The Asian tiger mosquito, which carries a range of potentially fatal diseases, has now colonised half of all the départements in France and is here to stay, experts have warned.
The mosquito can transmit #dengue#Zika and #chikungunya
https://t.co/AUFcUd4Ywe