#Pathogen

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)

Kelly Hills

rocza

So piggybacking on @SaskiaPopescu's excellent thread here, which EERILY mirrors an email I sent Thursday - and she and I did NOT talk about the topic recently - I wanna

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

Not since HIV have viruses & bacteria been this ANGRY at a new member. They are so disgruntled by SARS2, they’re helping make vaccines against it. Pathogens are a Mafia-

Bob Moran

bobscartoons

I understand how desperately people want to believe that all of this was necessary.For all of the misery, heartache, sacrifice and anger to have meant something. To have saved lives.

el gato malo

boriquagato

this article is medical malpractice.cyclist gets covid. 8 months later, he gets covid again! oh no, there is no resistance!wrong. he did not "get covid again." he tested + via

Fatima Tokhmafshan (she/elle) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

DeNovo_Fatima

#Vaccine Q&A: What is immunological memory? Will all pathogens generate immunological memory?Response in #scicomm #BiologyRules #VaccinesWork #ScienceIsFun say you’re a new hire at a security firm.To effectively neutralize a variety

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

I've noticed people sometimes use 'herd immunity' to mean 'pathogen fades to zero and stays there' rather than the technical definition (i.e. R drops below 1 because of accumulated immunity,

Kaitlin Deutsch

KaitlinDeutsch

In the current COVID climate, we are acutely aware of how emerging diseases can dramatically shape our world. For @EntSoc #PollinatorHealthDay, I wanted to share how insect pollinators are ALSO

Ms Understood

pleased2bme

The reason COVID19 is so deadly is because our immune system has never seen it before. 8% of true human genome consists of viruses contracted by our ancestors which is

Jessica Stark

JessicaCStark

Our portable, in vitro conjugate vaccine expression (iVAX) platform is this week's cover @ScienceAdvances! We developed a #cellfree #synbio technology to address some of the major challenges limiting conjugate vaccine

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. I suppose because I'm an evolutionary biology who has worked on emerging infectious diseases for 20 years, a number of people are asking me whether we should expect the

Emilia C Skirmuntt 🦇🧬🦠

ESkirmuntt

Where did SARS-CoV2 come from? (a THREAD)The answer is... We don't know! (you should get used to it). But we can hypothesize. Let's tackle the first thing: laboratory escape is

Amit Paranjape

aparanjape

How COVID unlocked the power of RNA vaccinesThe technology could revolutionize efforts to immunize against HIV, malaria, influenza and more.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00019-w DARPA and RNA vaccines -"...two smaller firm

Deepta Bhattacharya

deeptabhattacha

Those who follow me know that alarmism isn't my style. But the new UK variant does have me a bit concerned. I'm not qualified to critically assess changes in transmissibility,

Brett Edwards

bwiedwards

So yes. This is a worthwhile listen if you are curious about biowarfare and bioterror.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000q3hk You can also check out the other resources. In terms of general interest there is

tim parke

trjparke

When I was a registrar in Edinburgh in early 1990's we helped train SAS medics in Emergency Medicine over a few months in the department on placement. Thread 1/- They

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