"Because Big Pharma is unconvinced of the profit potential, they're abandoning gene therapies — not just for SCID but for scores of other rare diseases — even when they know the cures work. As a result, kids like Jakob will needlessly suffer and die, denied access to a permanent fix for their illnesses. What's keeping Jakob isolated from the rest of the world, unable to play with a dog or make a friend, isn't his disease. It's the marketplace."
https://www.businessinsider.com/bubble-boy-disease-cure-but-drug-companies-wont-provide-it-2022-7
Great review article on fatty acid metabolism and glioblastoma by @JasonMiska1. A really enjoyable read 👍.
https://www.jci.org/articles/view/163448#.Y7kQ6CH4YIE.twitter.
RT @ImmPRes_
flurry of updates coming your way. First up: Bach2 deletion can create super killer cytotoxic T lymphocytes. How do you ask? well it causes a massive increase in granzymes and perforin. This data from the @griffiths_lab is now up on ImmPRes #tcells #superkillers
RT @OnkTherapeutics
We’ve been named as one of BioSpaces’s NextGen 'Class of 2023', designating us as one of the most promising new life sciences companies in N.America this year. We’re driven by our purpose of pioneering optimally engineered #NKcell therapies to cure cancer.
https://www.onktherapeutics.com/onk-therapeutics-named-most-promising-company-in-biospaces-nextgen-2023-list/
The collection of immune cell proteomes is really growing at http://ImmPRes.co.uk. Simply fantastic resource.
#Tcells (of many types)
#NKcells
#Neutrophils
#Macrophage
#Bcells
#Basophils
#TheListGoesOn
I know for a fact there’s lots of new datasets on the way too 😁
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RT @ImmPRes_
we have now added our first #neutrophil dataset to ImmPRes. What effect does hypoxia have on neutrophils when they're activated with LPS? and what happens …
https://twitter.com/ImmPRes_/status/1610671220810203137
🤣 love it.
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RT @ATinyGreenCell
Salad spinners are the best plate centrifuges.
https://twitter.com/ATinyGreenCell/status/1610338801611587591
RT @DrCJ_Houldcroft
My favourite study of "how often does a family with small children get a respiratory infection?" is this one, from the USA:
https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/civ486
Children <5y have one of 16 common respiratory viruses detected in a nasal swab 50% of the year!
RT @Irishimmunology
We are very excited to announce that Prof @EdLavellee is to be awarded our Annual Award for Immunology 2022 for his contributions to Irish immunology research and education!
For more information about the award you can check out our website at https://www.irishimmunology.ie/annual-award
We are here now too. What to do next? Please follow https://mstdn.science/@CytokineSociety. The ICIS is the premier organization promoting the field of cytokine biology across many different research disciplines at a time when cytokine biology, cytokine biomarkers and cytokine therapeutics are revolutionizing modern medicine, providing novel treatments for a wide variety of diseases ranging from lethal inflammatory, autoimmune and allergic diseases, to viral infections and cancer.
RT @lydfinley
Do you ❤️ the TCA cycle? (trick question). Our new review discusses the origins, discovery, and many functions of the mammalian TCA cycle. By @paigearnold2 @SKI_CellBiology out now in @jbiolchem https://www.jbc.org/article/S0021-9258(22)01281-9/fulltext
RT @FearonCassidy
Our latest story from the @OSheaHoganLab is now in pre-print, I investigated the metabolic requirements for early MAIT cell responses with the help of the amazing @AndyHogan82 team @KediaMehta @RonanBergin @Andrea_W7 https://twitter.com/osheahoganlab/status/1605496087313125376
RT @cggbamford
Final output of the year, in collab w/ @mark_w_robinson @MaynoothUni and led by @gordongreville highlighting that defects in type I IFN signaling might explain why people with liver disease are more vulnerable to SARS2 infection https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.14.22283445v1 funded by @scienceirel
RT @OSheaHoganLab
NEW PRE-PRINT! Cool new story led by @FearonCassidy on what fuels rapid #MAITcell responses like cytotoxicity. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.20.521164v1 Mini thread below
RT @DelgoffeLab
Thrilled to kick off the holiday season with a new paper from the lab! Out in @NatImmunol today, we explore an unexpected function of terminally exhausted T cells and their contribution to the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment. 🧵 1/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-022-01379-9
Sure, they are at it again. Them moonlighting metabolic enzymes!! Soon they will all have second jobs 🤯🤯.
Lactate dehydrogenase A activates Rac1 signalling.
RT @AndyHogan82
New mini-review on #MAITcell metabolism - topic in its infancy but one @KediaMehta & myself think will become very important in the future https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.1108071/abstract
RT @WimGMeijer
Very sharp increase in SARS-CoV-2 levels in Dublin wastewater. As in the previous two years, viral levels peak during the Christmas period.
Data from 24 June 2020 - 14 December 2022
@UCD_SBBS @UCD_Research @IrishWater
@HSELive @nvrlucdireland @hpscireland #wastewater
RT @stephan_till
Our paper introducing PK Mito Orange (PKMO) has finally been published. It was a great pleasure to work together with @TianyanL on this project. Wonderful collaboration between @ZhixingChen2 and @JakobsLab!
It is hard communicating science when the world no longer values truth.
Nice piece here about how to improve science education to combat misinformation:
“we need to teach people why science deserves their trust”
Some of you may have seen Elon Musk's endorsement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s crazy antivax conspiracy theories today.
Over at post.news, I just posted a long-form piece about this, and about how science education needs to adapt to online disinformation.
Please a look. If you like it, boost it there or here or — if you dare — over on the birdsite.
We are an Immunometabolism research group that studies how nutrients and metabolism affect immune cell function at #TrinityCollegeDublin👨🔬 Love #NK_cells, #Dendritic_cells and #T_cells but can be easily convinced to talk at length about metabolism in any immune cell 😄. Twitter handle @DavidFinlayTCD