Persistence of spike proteins in our neural tissues may have some serious long term implications & responsible for the neurological effects of #LongCovid biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Calling all #NewApproachMethodologies researchers! The NIH Common Fund #Complement_ARIE program, with support from NCATS & @NIEHS, will establish a data hub to manage & support #FAIRdata. See the Notice of Intent for #FundingOpportunity Announcement: go.nih.gov/K6kfgdb

We were told today that many elective surgeries are being cancelled at UVA Hospital and nationwide due to the IV fluid shortage. As a non-medical person I had not heard about this. Yikes. Why is there not a distributed supply chain for such a critical product?

"Literally one day I was well and the next day I wasn't" "Anyone can get Long Covid" This video from Canadian Covid Society/Société canad. de la covid is really really good, and really worth sharing. **Everyone should watch this**

We are excited to announce our new partnership with microTAStic - a monthly limited webinar series! David Weitz (Harvard SEAS) will be giving a talk on Droplet Microfluidics for Biophysics and Biotechnology Be sure to register soon: stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6E…

Calling all faculty candidates (postdocs, Asst Profs, senior grad students) - Apply to UW Bioengineering! Job ad at link below. If you are considering applying and have questions on the ad, please email or DM me. Come join us, UW is amazing! apply.interfolio.com/155240

Read Rebecca Solnit and absorb that hope is not a bird in the sky you hope lands near you, it’s an active orientation. You find it in the care for someone else or something else outside of yourself. It’s bigger than you. It’s an act of cultivation. Rub two sticks together.

The fantasy of some kind of complete victory looms so large and it is so destructive. In the end, the whole time, it’s always been this, as she put it: “The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving.”

"Human Immune Organoids & Organs-on-Chip" - Excited to share our new work Nature Materials! Congrats to PhD student Monica Zhong for leading this breakthrough work & to all authors!👏🏽Immense thanks to Wellcome Leap & @NIAIDFunding, National Cancer Institute + for support!🙏🏽nature.com/articles/s4156…

Since we're talking about funding of absurd research by NIH and other federal agencies, the funded scientists: - watching flies fuck - giving rats massages - spending years digging into why jellyfish glow - tracking penguin poop from space - using horseshoe crab blood

So, UK is no longer offering #COVID vaccines to pregnant women. Why do we keep ignoring the science? - There is NO evidence of increase in adverse events in babies from vaccinated moms. -Maternal immune activation caused by COVID can PROFOUNDLY impact fetal brain development.

Coming from biodefense, it's absolutely staggering to me that not very long ago if H5N1 (until very recently a Select Agent) had been found in retail raw milk, the response from the government would have been fast and aggressive. Now the response is 'don't drink raw milk'.

In an interview with TIME, Trump said he would have a "big discussion" with RFK about ending childhood vaccination programs. He suggested that they could get rid of some vaccinations if he thinks they're "dangerous." This is reckless and will kill people. reuters.com/world/us/trump…

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We have a new preprint posted! But I am going to direct you to BlueSky to learn about it. 😁 #immunoengineering #LymphNodeOnAChip bsky.app/profile/pompan…

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Grateful to Dr. Rebecca Rebecca Pompano for highlighting our human immune organoid & lymphoid-on-chip work in Nature Materials. Her "News & Views" outstandingly captures the critical need & efficacy of mini immune organs, predicting response in healthy & immunodeficient individuals.

This question is an amazing question - absolutely brilliant. It is one of the *central problems* of the covid response puzzle. I addressed it about two years ago, but can't find the thread, so here's another go...