#Cells

Cathryn Townsend, PhD.

CathrynTownsend

Just started reading this book where @AthenaAktipis argues that "our very existence as multicellular organisms - as paragons of multicellular cooperation - is inextricably tied to our susceptibility to cancer."

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

COVID Vaccines1) A vaccine doesn’t need to prevent infection altogether. It just needs to prevent severe disease and/or deaths. 2) Antibody levels may not correlate with efficacy3) T cell responses

Professor Karol Sikora

ProfKarolSikora

Yet more evidence on the importance of T cells is emerging. It's significant.This isn't just one rogue study now, it's being increasingly documented.I was saying this months ago, but according

Jason Snyder

jsnsndr

Our study of the surprisingly prolonged development of adult-born hippocampal neurons now out in J Neurosci. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2020/06/22/JNEUROSCI.1665-19.2020 Since neurogenesis declines with age, and is controversia

Mac n’ Chise 🧬🧫🦠

sailorrooscout

The importance of T-cell immunity!A recent study has found that after one dose of Pfizer’s vaccine, patients had a strong T-cell response, and a boosted antibody response after their second

Mark Humphries

markdhumphries

Some musing on this response from @jpillowtime to the thought-provoking paper on representation by @TBBake @benlansdell & @KordingLab Other have asked they give a concrete example; so I'll take the

Paul Bleicher

pbleic

1/ Immunology Comix - Summary: 1. Virus must get through mucous membranes, a physical barrier. 2. Innate immunity can destroy virus before it starts. 3. Neutralizing antibodies and memory

Reflex Research

ReflexFunds

1) Short term $TSLA is all about potential Q2 profit & S&P500 inclusion which can have significant long term implications for Tesla's shareholder base and valuation. But more important for

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Lots of new variant news - yes, they are more infectious likely due to higher viral loads in nose/mouth but not more "virulent" (not likely to make people more sick)

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

NEW STUDY: A Chinese study shows people infected with COVID-19 lose antibodies after only a few months. A good summary article is here:https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/06/chinese-study-antibodies-covid-19-patients-fade-quick

Nipun Chopra, PhD

NipunChopra7

Understanding why the mRNA in the Pfizer/Moderna vaccines cannot change your DNA, explained to diff audiences:(1) Young kids: DNA and mRNA are kept in separate parts of the cell.(2) High

Gertrud Rey PhD (Trudy)

GertrudRey

Do memory T cells induced by seasonal coronavirus infection protect us from SARS-CoV-2 infection and/or disease? I attempt to answer this question in this thread. Also at virology blog. (1/n)

Kilian Schober

kischober

Very, very excited to share our @TU_Muenchen @DZIF_ pre-print on 'reverse phenotyping' of SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells. A thread. 1/nhttps://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.07.20245274v1 One important difficulty with analyses

Jorge Lara

JorgeLa68520343

I open the cell thread WHAT IS A CELL?The cell is the basic biological, functional and structural unit of any living being and at the same time, the cell is

Shane Crotty

profshanecrotty

1/ Our newest COVID-19 immunology work is online today at Cell! @ljiresearch https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)31235-6 2/ We aimed to better understand hospitalized COVID-19 cases by examining virus-specific immune responses

Caroline Coram

CarolineCoramUK

Questions for the day. What if viruses are formed by the body as a sort of cleaning messenger and are being mistakenly blamed for disease? The lipid envelope contents are

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