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Applications are still open for our 2023 Fellows program. Join the program to learn more about #preprints and connect with others interested in bringing positive change to science communication. Read more & apply: buff.ly/3Dy4dor

Past exposure to viruses shapes T cell responses to subsequent viruses, even if completely unrelated?! 🤔

V interesting #virology #immunology #viruses #Tcells

Cross-reactivity of SARS-CoV-2– and influenza A–specific T cells in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2

insight.jci.org/articles/view/

Our EiC @npariente is attending the EMBO Workshop “The Immune System of Bacteria”, the first nucleating this vibrant community studying various systems that has so exploded in recent years.

Come by to say hello!

Technical language

'Mental-health care is “a shitstorm,” Thomas Insel, a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, told me. “Nobody likes what they get. Nobody is happy with what they give. It’s a complete mess.”

newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03

'Meloni’s government has actively sabotaged the NGO-led search and rescue missions attempting to save lives at sea. Under her government’s new legislation, boats that have rescued migrants onboard cannot remain at sea to continue their mission. They must go to assigned ports based in northern Italy by Italian authorities, days of sailing away from the main theatre of operations. This has resulted in a drastic reduction of the time the vessels can engage in saving lives, and surely a corresponding increase in the death rate.'

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

'Three days before Christmas, the only hospital in this remote city on the Yakama Indian Reservation abruptly closed its maternity unit without consulting the community, the doctors who delivered babies there or even its own board.'

nytimes.com/2023/02/26/health/

Escalators don’t break.

They just become stairs.

Review on HIF and stromal-tumor interactions by Missiaen et al @embojournal

"In this review, we discuss how HIF-mediated mechanisms control nutrient sensing and availability in the TME, the competition for nutrients, and the metabolic cross-talk between tumor and stromal cells."

embopress.org/doi/abs/10.15252

RT @rnartist_app
After two weeks of coding, preview of my new tool to visualize the folding pathways of an #RNA during its transcription. Pathways are computed with my new #rustlang algorithm. Visualization and GUI are made with #kotlin, #javafx and my rnartistcore library. #bioinformatics

Bat biotech

"Inspired by the humble and much maligned bat, Paratus is hoping to study the unique characteristics that have evolved in the only flighted mammal over millions of years to solve afflictions such as inflammation, viral infection and more."

fiercebiotech.com/biotech/para

"Here, we demonstrate the induction of both systemic and mucosal antibody responses against HuNoV in suckling mice using recombinant Rhesus rotaviruss expressing HuNoV VP1 or P domain."

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2214

"Here we report a murine model that expresses tumor-like levels of human APOBEC3B after Cre-mediated recombination. Animals appear to develop normally with full-body expression of APOBEC3B. However, adult males manifest infertility and older animals of both sexes show accelerated rates of tumorigenesis (mostly lymphomas or hepatocellular carcinomas)"

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

Does accumulation of #macromolecules in the highly protein-rich #mitochondrial matrix regulate solute diffusion and biochemical reactions?
Using FRAP analysis of #organelle-targeted fusion peptides, Werner Koopman and colleagues report macromolecular crowding as a stress-dependent determinant of matrix mobility and viscosity

embopress.org/doi/10.15252/emb

01/2023 Issue ➡️ bit.ly/3CMpyKi
On the cover: Engineered bacteria expressing a designed single-chain IL-10 prevent severe inflammation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection
Luis Serrano lab, CRG
#proteinengineering #immunomodulation #synbio #SystemsBiology

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