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Global Toll of US Tuberculosis Funding Cuts Grim results of a modeling study on what US funding cuts to TB projects might mean TB deaths are projected to increase by 99,800 (minimal impact scenario), 268,600 (moderate impact), and 2,243,700 (worst case scenario) www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Dear bluesky community! Do you know anyone who recruited a clinical cohort of adolescent vaccinees for human papilloma virus (HPV)?

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Absolute legend, what an amazing legacy. RIP 🛟 🩺 www.npr.org/2025/03/03/n...

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📣 !! JOB ALERT for PhD students !! My lab is moving to the M3 Research Center at the University of Tübingen and is looking for PhD students who are enthusiastic about translational research. If you are, read on below ⬇️

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📣 The EU has launched a new map of #ClinicalTrials. Thanks to this new tool patients will be able to locate trials for potential enrolment in their area. Read more about this map 🗺️ www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/new-...

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SCOOP: The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to a whistle-blower from USAID. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...

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Life Sciences Bridge Award – the award for talented researchers in #lifeSciences: the Aventis Foundation Life Sciences Bridge Awards are endowed with a subsidy amount of 100,000 each. Guidelines and application at bridge.aventis-foundation.org Deadline: 30 April 2025

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#JungesKolleg: Die neuen Mitglieder stehen fest! Christoph Heilig @lmumuenchen.bsky.social, Maik Luu @Uniklinik Würzburg, Carolin Müller @fau.de, Robert J. Mayer @tum.de und Charlotte Wendland @lmumuenchen.bsky.social 👉 tiny.badw.de/rPTXJE Willkommen in der BAdW! Foto: @wolf-bild.bsky.social

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Oh great. TB is only the #1 killer among all infectious diseases worldwide.

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"If I had to name a person who has done more for the benefit of human health, with less recognition than anyone else, it would be Maurice Hilleman."—Richard Gallo

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The figure speaks for itself - a big drop of RSV in age groups who were eligible for vaccination. #VaccinesWork

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Half the reason mRNA levels may differ from protein levels both across genes and within genes across samples ⬇️

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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Key paper here for those interested in T cell exhaustion 👇

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Roses are red, Violets are blue, Antibiotics fight bacteria, Not the seasonal flu. 💊🚫🤧 #AntibioticStewardship #AntibioticResistance #AMR #FluSeason #AcademicSky #IDSky

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Hola scientific bluesky community! Did it ever happen to anyone that you wanted to generate (EBV-based) B-LCLs (starting from PBMCs) and "by accident" T-LCLs grew out, so T cells instead of B cells? We have a curious setting in which we observe this. Does this just stochastically occur?

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Das von Mücken übertragene #Chikungunya-Virus kann schwere Symptome hervorrufen. Es gehört zu den Tropenkrankheiten, tritt aber vereinzelt auch in Südeuropa auf. Jetzt steht ein neuer #Impfstoff kurz vor der Zulassung. via @pharmazeitung.bsky.social www.pharmazeutische-zeitung.de/neuer-chikun...

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Wow. Last month wasn't just a usual hottest January on record. Despite cool La Niña conditions, it was even hotter than last years record-breaking El Niño January! Graph by @hausfath.bsky.social

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Super interesting work by Florian Klein & team from @uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social showing that unexposed individuals harbor low levels of neutralizing antibodies against H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b (the strain circulating in cows). Cross-neutralizing mAbs bind HA stem www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/4

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Heartbreaking - but 💯worth reading 👇

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Hello folks. I am glad to join you here on Bluesky!

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Not a jurist, but in Germany I would assume that §86a and §130 of the criminal code would be looked up a lot today www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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What does the remarkably early appearance of the Last Universal Common Ancestor tell us about the first days of life on Earth? My article in yesterday's Observer. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Interested in predicting AMR in bacteria? We show ignoring phylogenetic structure in genome collections leads to overly optimistic evaluations of machine learning methods for AMR prediction. With @nwheeler443.bsky.social and former PhD student Yanying Yu. 🦠🧫🧬🖥️🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Registration for the Antwerp T-cell Repertoire (ATCR) meeting has opened! It aims to bring together experts, researchers and industry on the study of T-cells through novel high throughput sequencing technologies. Check out the exciting speaker list! www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferenc...

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Two new reports on T cells and viral infections —the ability to prevent without neutralizing antibodies www.nature.com/articles/s41... —more Tregs and enhanced protection via multiple Covid booster shots www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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We are hiring! Several projects available in mucosal immunology and stem cell transplantation using functional genomics and spatial transcriptomics. Could you please help us spread the word? @ljiresearch.bsky.social

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Happy new year from the Yellow4FLAVI Consortium ! The Yellow4FLAVI team sends its warmest wishes to all our partners, collaborators, scientific advisors, and the scientific community. May this year bring innovation, impactful discoveries, and success for us all! www.linkedin.com/posts/yellow...

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Bizarre tumor immunology accident. Surgeon injures hand while resecting malignant histiocytoma and finds an inflamed mass at the site of prior injury. Tumor cells transplanted, patient & surgeon HLA mismatched causing intense yet insufficient host-vs-graft response: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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It has been a wonderful year for us as a lab. We had successes to celebrate, but also many challenges to overcome. Each of us definitely learnt a lot and grew personally.

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The master in CAR T Cell #immunotherapy for autoimmunity Georg Schett giving Grand Rounds @pennmedicine.bsky.social sharing one of many patient victories, and more to come!

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A very rare position for an immunology professorship at Cambridge. Something to think about! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49381/

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