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Bryan McDonald

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T cell enthusiast

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Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

09.04.2025 11:30 — 👍 903    🔁 494    💬 15    📌 25

How about P.L. Panum's observations in the isolated villages of the Faroe Islands, that individuals infected with Measles in 1781 were protected against a Measles outbreak 65 years later. The record is also among the earliest works disproving the miasma theory

16.02.2025 22:48 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Jobs We are working to solve the biggest mysteries in bioscience.

📢 Join our team at @alleninstitute.bsky.social! We're hiring a Bioinformatics Scientist II for spatial transcriptomics in immunology.
Our latest work in Nature shows how tissue architecture shapes immune cell diversity. Now we're expanding our team!
Learn more: alleninstitute.org/careers/jobs...

31.01.2025 19:07 — 👍 8    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1

I wish!

24.01.2025 15:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Amazing! Congrats Max!

24.01.2025 00:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Bile acids differentially affect immune cell responses to liver cancer @science.org @tcellogic.bsky.social
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09.01.2025 19:35 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Hi Erik, could you please add me to the feed orcid.org/0000-0003-17...

13.12.2024 03:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nutrient-driven histone code determines exhausted CD8+ T cell fates ACLY-deficient CAR T cells targeting the tumor-associated antigen disialoganglioside GD2 (GD2 CAR T cells) also resisted acquiring TEX-like properties, exhibiting reduced CD39 expression when co-cultu...

"Work smarter and harder"
- Shixin Ma, 2022

What a privilege to contribute to this work with Dr. Shixin Ma, one of the most driven and dedicated scientists I have ever worked with. Excited for what's to come from Shixin's future lab! 🚀
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

13.12.2024 03:46 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social led the charge... @natureportfolio.bsky.social 1/55

11.12.2024 16:29 — 👍 698    🔁 294    💬 24    📌 65

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