Emily Hurley

You're not depressed, you just lost your quest.

Huntington's disease has been successfully treated for the first time, doctors tell BBC bbc.in/46jnMiX

Researchers in a new #ScienceReview examine the influence that biological sex exerts on the immune system and immune-related diseases. Learn more: scim.ag/47LTwya

Very happy graduating today from MSc in Novel Therapies! #OurImperial

A 25-year-old woman with type 1 #diabetes started producing her own insulin < three months after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells. She is the first person with the disease to be treated using cells that were extracted from her own body. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Setting the tone: nociceptors as conductors of immune responses dlvr.it/TDX002 #immunology

The leading edge of a cell videoed through a microscope. Actin filaments are shown. #CellBiology

What a great time we had at the @VinuesaLab retreat! Lots of science discussions, games, time by the beach, and even a bbq 🧠🗣️🧫🏖️Thank you for an amazing time @carovinuesa @sophieshen896 @Eilema @RoserTP @WareThuvaraka @LMShuttleworth

Today's @washingtonpost editorial on the BA.5 variant washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

The Best Scientists 🧵 I have heard a lot about the Best Scientists 🧑‍🔬 Maybe the best scientists... make impactful discoveries, publish in gilded journals, garner millions in funding, with lots of indirects. And prizes, all the prizes🏆 And everybody respects them. OR…

The abstract alone is damning on Sweden's pandemic policy

Born today in 1938, Lynn Margulis advanced endosymbiotic theory that mitochondria and chloroplasts originated in protists absorbed by eukaryotes. She studied at @UChicagoLab, @UWGenetics & @UCBerkeley; then researched/taught at @BrandeisU, @BU_Biology & @UMass_PlantBio/@UMassGeo.

Wow. Long Covid people are missing naive T cells. I wrote about the loss of naive T cells and the death of T cells being problematic in 2020 in frontiers nature.com/articles/s4159…

nature has actually contacted me for comment about accusations that Sci-Hub is a threat, here is my full response / it is clear that academic publishers care about their money, not about security of other people

The emergence of Omicron is concerning but incredibly a new vaccine can be made in around 90 days should one be needed (boosters likely to offer protection). Antivirals will also work. If it’s more transmissible antigen testing becomes even more important.