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Tom Maniatis coming in hot in @CellCellPress to spell out in no uncertain terms what cutting indirect cost rates to 15% will cost science. And a call to action: "A united front...is essential to preventing this devastating policy from taking effect." 💯 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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JCI Insight - Frequency of dengue virus–specific T cells is related to infection outcome in endemic settings insight.jci.org/articles/vie...

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Since January 20, too many of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Republicans' actions have only served to break our government and hurt the American people. If you’ve been affected, please share your story here to help me best represent San Diego in Congress. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Unbelievable news. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers. New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Join us at Amgen Structural Biology in SoCal! Work on #xray and #cryoEM. careers.amgen.com/en/job/thous...

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Unveiling the Complete Spectrum of SARS-CoV-2 Fusion Stages by In Situ Cryo-ET https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.25.640151v1

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Going to the 2025 #MIT #European #Career #Fair this weekend, & wondering how to #fund your future #research? Visit the 🇪🇺 European Union's stand to find out all about European Research Council's #grants! Info 👉 europa.eu/!M4MWm8 #EURAXESS #Europe #Science #Grant #Funding @mitofficial.bsky.social

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The @briggsgroup.bsky.social alongside teams from @uniheidelberg.bsky.social and @yalemicropath.bsky.social uncover elusive role of #HIV-1 component SP2. Detailed 3D views of viruses by #cryoEM show how SP2 helps the virus matrix to mature. ❕Read the paper @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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We have great speakers at our @lji.org seminar series. Come join!

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Just a start! Who's missing? go.bsky.app/LAA7Sdx

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🚨 Amazing Opportunity 🚨 U Alberta is looking for a director for their new #cryoEM facility Support excellent researchers (who are really nice people) using state-of-the-art infrastructure. + reasonable cost of living + near some of most beautiful places in world + 🇨🇦 apps.ualberta.ca/careers/post...

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An excellent explainer for anyone wanting to understand #infectiousdisease models better 👇🏼 #episky “Modeling the Texas measles outbreak” from @epiellie.bsky.social 👏🏼👏🏼 open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

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Possible involvement of Ebola Sudan latent infection www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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I've been developing a semantic search tool that covers not just bioRxiv and medRxiv, but the entire PubMed database. This means you can search across a massive collection of biomedical research using keywords, questions, hypotheses, or even full abstracts. Try it out: mssearch.xyz

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A huge congratulations to LJI Assistant Prof. Miguel Reina-Campos (@reinacampos.bsky.social) and all the innovative awardees! #immunology #ImmuneSystem #Health #Medicine

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Great opportunity here, folks! Great lab, great research, great city!

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Curious about the latest #virology research? Don't miss this recent episode of The Immunology Podcast — featuring fascinating new research from LJI's Erica Ollmann Saphire, Ph.D. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #Immunology #InfectiousDisease #Measles #Microscopy #CryoEM #health #medicine

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Want to lead a research group at a Max Planck Institute – with a #tenuretrack position & substantial resources? Apply for the Lise Meitner Excellence Program by @maxplanck.de. The program aims to promote exceptionally qualified #WomeninScience. Deadline: April 8, 2025 www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...

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Been thinking about creating a collection of good protein structure figures, as inspiration for my own work. #1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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#Measles spreads easily when an infected person breathes, coughs or sneezes. Measles can affect anyone, but is most common in children. Vaccination with two doses of measles vaccine is the best way to protect yourself and your community bit.ly/2PxcYsj

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Hi folks! napari is officially on bsky now! 🥳 Let's hit the ground running with a reminder that all are welcome at our next (Atlantic) community meeting on Feb 12, 8:30am SFO / 11:30am NYC / 5:30pm Paris. Agenda and details here: hackmd.io/BXWDZ3i8Q6OA...

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Hello everyone on Bluesky! 🧪 We are EMBO, the organization of more than 2,100 leading researchers that promotes excellence in #lifesciences in Europe and beyond. Read more: www.embo.org/about-embo/m...

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Virus shape matters. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Interested in learning to process cryo-ET data in the latest version of Warp? I'll be running a workshop on April 22nd in central London, UK details+registration: forms.gle/FLDr3ZWtVGXs... Hope to see you there!

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Ebola in Uganda The number of confirmed cases rises to 9. 265 people are being monitored or under quarantine. So far the death toll remains at 1. Vaccination efforts continue amidst significant vaccine hesitancy. apnews.com/article/ugan...

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This is a fantastic meeting for the Cryo-EM community in the NYC area. This year it will take place on the East Coast of Manhattan. Please come and join us!

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Update: 15 confirmed cases. Health officials are racing to offer vaccines to unvaccinated children, they're operating a mobile unit to screen for cases, pre-treating exposed infants. Schools & hospitals are on alert. Measles outbreaks are v hard to contain. A totally preventable situation.

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This video will make your day ❤️🐿

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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If you're coming to #BPS2025, please come check out the #CryoEM symposium on Sat Feb 15th, 8:30AM-12:30PM, Room 515B. Also! Join us for the CryoEM happy hour in the evening, 6:30-8:30PM at 33 Taps DTLA. Get your tickets now, as ticket sales end Feb 10th! www.biophysics.org/store/produc...

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It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

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Hello, Bluesky! ☀️ We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late. Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.

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The CDC has issued a Health Advisory about a Sudan virus outbreak in Kampala, Uganda, urging vigilance for travelers, healthcare providers, and public health officials.

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Granzyme K activates the entire complement cascade www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com @theis182.bsky.social

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Pranav N. M. Shah et al.: TomoCPT: a generalizable model for 3D particle detection and localization in cryo-electron tomograms #CryoET #ParticlePicking #SubTomogramAveraging @UniofOxford@IEUniversity...#IUCr https://journals.iucr.org/paper?S2059798325000865

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Another promising monoclonal antibody for EBOV disease. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Sound on so you can hear its little chirps!

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NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Marburg outbreaks need rapid detection, isolation, contact tracing, and infection control. With MSF, WHO, and the Tanzanian MoH involved, 2 deaths, 8 probable deaths, 64 suspected cases, and 281 contacts are being monitored to contain the spread. 🙏 www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/marbu...

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In a global first, Uganda’s Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners today launched a first-ever vaccine trial for Ebola from the Sudan species of the virus, and at an unprecedented speed for a randomized vaccine trial in an emergency.🧵

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Thank goodness we replaced the word "barriers" with the more pompous "impediments" in our recently funded NSF grant.

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Come and set up your own group at the @mrclmb.bsky.social in Cambridge, UK. Feel free to chat/email me with questions.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

CAR-T cells can arm bystander T cells with CAR molecules via trogocytosis. #ScienceImmunology "Trogocytosis of chimeric antigen receptors between T cells is regulated by their transmembrane domains" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Nipah virus matrix protein utilizes cortical actin to stabilize the virus assembly sites and promote budding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.27.635114v1

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A great summary of our recent study out in @nature.com by @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social - Special shoutout to our co-author and amazingly talented sci-artist Elena Lin for the stunning graphics.

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