Rebecca Pompano

This question is an amazing question - absolutely brilliant. It is one of the *central problems* of the covid response puzzle. I addressed it about two years ago, but can't find the thread, so here's another go...

Grateful to Dr. Rebecca @PompanoLab for highlighting our human immune organoid & lymphoid-on-chip work in @NatureMaterials. Her "News & Views" outstandingly captures the critical need & efficacy of mini immune organs, predicting response in healthy & immunodeficient individuals.

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@3DiMMUNE Thank you for sharing!

We have a new preprint posted! But I am going to direct you to BlueSky to learn about it. 😁 #immunoengineering #LymphNodeOnAChip bsky.app/profile/pompan…

In an interview with TIME, Trump said he would have a "big discussion" with RFK about ending childhood vaccination programs. He suggested that they could get rid of some vaccinations if he thinks they're "dangerous." This is reckless and will kill people. reuters.com/world/us/trump…

Plus, in a fun reminder of how nicely Twitter used to work, earlier this year @jwLamberink gave some great feedback on how to think about the structures that form during GelMA crosslinking. Look for a shout out in the Acknowledgements! :) x.com/JwLamberink/st…

New pub out in #AnalyticalChemistry! Recent PhD Jon Zatorski + undergrad Isabella Lee developed a clever solution phase NMR for #photocrosslinked hydrogels, revealing that Degree of Crosslinking predicts physical stability of the gel. #biomaterials #NMR pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

@eyolab Agree, although I've never seen such a comment in an admissions context. I hope not to!

Dear academic colleagues, as graduate admissions season is here, please remember that diversity&inclusion refers also to those whom we may disagree with. Specifically, watch out for (and advocate against) prejudiced comments towards social and political conservatives. Thank you😊

Coming from biodefense, it's absolutely staggering to me that not very long ago if H5N1 (until very recently a Select Agent) had been found in retail raw milk, the response from the government would have been fast and aggressive. Now the response is 'don't drink raw milk'.

So, UK is no longer offering #COVID vaccines to pregnant women. Why do we keep ignoring the science? - There is NO evidence of increase in adverse events in babies from vaccinated moms. -Maternal immune activation caused by COVID can PROFOUNDLY impact fetal brain development.

Since we're talking about funding of absurd research by NIH and other federal agencies, the funded scientists: - watching flies fuck - giving rats massages - spending years digging into why jellyfish glow - tracking penguin poop from space - using horseshoe crab blood

"Human Immune Organoids & Organs-on-Chip" - Excited to share our new work @NatureMaterials! Congrats to PhD student @MonicaZhong5 for leading this breakthrough work & to all authors!👏🏽Immense thanks to @WellcomeLeap & @NIAIDFunding, @theNCI + for support!🙏🏽nature.com/articles/s4156…

Read @RebeccaSolnit and absorb that hope is not a bird in the sky you hope lands near you, it’s an active orientation. You find it in the care for someone else or something else outside of yourself. It’s bigger than you. It’s an act of cultivation. Rub two sticks together.

The fantasy of some kind of complete victory looms so large and it is so destructive. In the end, the whole time, it’s always been this, as she put it: “The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving.”

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"Literally one day I was well and the next day I wasn't" "Anyone can get Long Covid" This video from @CanCovSoc is really really good, and really worth sharing. **Everyone should watch this**

We are excited to announce our new partnership with microTAStic - a monthly limited webinar series! David Weitz (@hseas) will be giving a talk on Droplet Microfluidics for Biophysics and Biotechnology Be sure to register soon: stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6E…

@jventon Oh my gosh. 😨

@PompanoLab My father-in-law worked at this plant in Marion, NC for 25 years. He said all the bridges to the plant were wiped out and so you can't get there. And a sterile plant will take a while to get back, when power returns. 50% of the US saline i.v.s are made there-which is crazy.

We were told today that many elective surgeries are being cancelled at UVA Hospital and nationwide due to the IV fluid shortage. As a non-medical person I had not heard about this. Yikes. Why is there not a distributed supply chain for such a critical product?