A fitting award for a great scientist doing great science! Congrats Andy and the Kau Lab! 🎉🎉Kau Lab Doris Duke Foundation Test Account @WUSTLdbbs

Urinary tract infections are one of the world’s most common ailments. But some standard treatments no longer work for something that was once easily cured. "This is crazy. This is shocking," a researcher said. nyti.ms/2XOIron

BREAKING NEWS: The 2019 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”

I’m trying to interpret this hotel sign. The closest I can get is “don’t hide in a hanging box if C. elegans are attacking you”.

Our study in mice shows the impact of humidity on hosts' ability to fight respiratory virus infection. Winter months ➡️ indoor heating ➡️ low #humidity➡️reduced mucociliary clearance & innate antiviral immunity ➡️more 🦠 in lung ➡️increased mortality. pnas.org/content/116/22…

Hidden Figures author Margot Lee Shetterly pays tribute to Katherine Johnson, who was the most recognized of the African American “human computers,” female mathematicians who worked at NASA and its predecessor from the 1930s until the 1980. go.nature.com/2IHrWpm

Scientists working hard for the good of the community. Great work Fredrik Almqvist and colleagues!!

Time for a polar field trip! 🐧🐳❄️ Penguins Tilly and near-yearling Carmen came face to face with beluga Kayavak. Not all penguins live in super cold regions. Magellanic penguins like Tilly and Carmen are temperate-weather birds.

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This is an important read. Read it twice. Women in science are battling both Covid-19 and the patriarchy timeshighereducation.com/blog/women-sci… via Times Higher Education

It’s up to all of us—Black, white, everyone—no matter how well-meaning we think we might be, to do the honest, uncomfortable work of rooting it out. It starts with self-examination and listening to those whose lives are different from our own.

The Center for Women's Infectious Disease Research and Institute for Public Health at WUSTL present a symposium on COVID-19: Scientific Advances and Its Impact on Women's Health. September 11, 2020, 8:30 am to 12:30 pm CT. publichealth.wustl.edu/events/covid-1… @WUSTLpubhealth @WUSTL

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Congratulations to virologist Charles Rice, a winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his groundbreaking work at #WashUMed related to the hepatitis C virus. nobelprize.org/prizes/medicin…

The second shot of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines tends to come with worse side effects. I wrote about why that is, and got to poke some fun at Spouse along the way. His rating of the piece: "I have suffered for your art." theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Women in science can create a world with more treatments and less disease. #WomenInScience #womeninsciencecan Flagship Pioneering Senda Biosciences

Meet some of the #womeninscience across Flagship and our companies: Agamoni Bhattacharyya, Andrea Itano, Caitlin Spaulding, Lovisa Afzelius, Nancy Simonian, Pearl Huang, Rebekah Griesenauer #womeninsciencecan Caitlin Spaulding Nancy Simonian pearl s. huang Lovisa Afzelius

OUT NOW: Wolbachia cifB induces cytoplasmic incompatibility in the malaria mosquito vector. From the lab of Flaminia Catteruccia & colleagues. Kelsey Adams @DevBioDanny @flamcatt nature.com/articles/s4156…