The emergence of Omicron is concerning but incredibly a new vaccine can be made in around 90 days should one be needed (boosters likely to offer protection). Antivirals will also work. If it’s more transmissible antigen testing becomes even more important.

nature has actually contacted me for comment about accusations that Sci-Hub is a threat, here is my full response / it is clear that academic publishers care about their money, not about security of other people

Wow. Long Covid people are missing naive T cells. I wrote about the loss of naive T cells and the death of T cells being problematic in 2020 in frontiers nature.com/articles/s4159…

Born today in 1938, Lynn Margulis advanced endosymbiotic theory that mitochondria and chloroplasts originated in protists absorbed by eukaryotes. She studied at Laboratory Schools, UW Madison Genetics & UC Berkeley; then researched/taught at Brandeis University, BU Biology & UMass Plant Biology/@UMassGeo.

The abstract alone is damning on Sweden's pandemic policy

The Best Scientists 🧵 I have heard a lot about the Best Scientists 🧑‍🔬 Maybe the best scientists... make impactful discoveries, publish in gilded journals, garner millions in funding, with lots of indirects. And prizes, all the prizes🏆 And everybody respects them. OR…

Today's The Washington Post editorial on the BA.5 variant washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

What a great time we had at the Vinuesa Lab retreat! Lots of science discussions, games, time by the beach, and even a bbq 🧠🗣️🧫🏖️Thank you for an amazing time @carovinuesa Qian Shen Amalie Grenov Roser Tachó Piñot Thuvaraka Ware Laura Shuttleworth

Setting the tone: nociceptors as conductors of immune responses dlvr.it/TDX002 #immunology

The leading edge of a cell videoed through a microscope. Actin filaments are shown. #CellBiology

A 25-year-old woman with type 1 #diabetes started producing her own insulin < three months after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells. She is the first person with the disease to be treated using cells that were extracted from her own body. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Very happy graduating today from MSc in Novel Therapies! #OurImperial