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🔥 thread on infections praying on vulnerable freshers at uni (and not just freshers). And yes, there is loads of covid currently, and rhinovirus is increasing according to @ukhsa.bsky.social - get some rest and take good care of yourselves 🤧🫖☕️

Get your Zoster vaccine! @naturemedicine.bsky.social
A consistent relationship of VZV reactivation with dementia in 100M US adults after controlling for nearly 400 measured characteristics, with zoster vaccines reducing risk of dementia in dose-dependent manner
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

All these things 👆
Perhaps another article, if of interest, for @theconversation.com?

Freshers' flu: Why is it so hard for students to dodge? It's not the actual flu, and it's rarely serious, but when thousands of students arrive on campus they bring a cocktail of viruses.

Freshers' Flu, the seasonal viruses that pray on vulnerable students. Great to work with @joshelgin.bsky.social and @sheencr.bsky.social on this piece for BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fake microscopy images generated by AI are indistinguishable from the real thing Materials scientists warn that raw data and replication studies are needed to tackle the looming threat of near-undetectable AI fraud

Fake microscopy images generated by AI are indistinguishable from the real thing
www.chemistryworld.com/news/fake-mi...

🚨 New Web Resource Alert! 🚨 We're delighted to share Viro3D a database of >85000 viral protein structure predictions from >4400 human & animal viruses.

🔗 viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk
📄 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

@molsystbiol.org @cvrinfo.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social #Virology #AlphaFold 🧪 🦠

It's #ResearchAppreciationDay tomorrow! 👩‍🔬

A huge thank you to the researchers, clinicians, and healthcare professionals working behind the scenes to drive medical breakthroughs. 🙌

Without them, many of the treatments and discoveries we rely on today wouldn’t exist.

@mqmentalhealth.bsky.social

Beautiful day, beautiful campus! #QEHospital University of Birmingham @unibirmingham.bsky.social

📣Professor Alex Richter, presenting "Testing times: developing diagnostics to meet contemporary healthcare challenges" @bsi-midlands.bsky.social @britsocimm.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

❤️🔬 Exciting developments discussed at The Future of AI in Microscopy and Image Analysis meeting, organised by COMPARE at the University of Birmingham!

Excellent hosting by Davide Calebiro and team, and lovely to see Edalat Radfar's tour of our UoB #Snouty, and the robotic arm that feeds it!

📆 Get your diaries out! The International Bioinformatics Hackathon is back 🧬🖥️

#Medsky🧪 #IDSky #oncosky #Neurosky #immunosky #pedsky #publichealth 60 years after its discovery as the first human tumour virus, #EpsteinBarrvirus (EBV)-specific therapies & #vaccines have entered #clinicaltrials.

🎊 Congratulations to our postgraduate students presenting at the Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy #PGRGala2025 🎊

Mauro Gaya from CIML immunology presentation on B cell memory in barrier tissues, at our seminar series

Fantastic presentation by @maurogaya.bsky.social visiting our Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy as part of our @britsocimm.bsky.social seminar series #immunosky #virosky @ciml.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Peaceful night photo of the river Clyde in Glasgow, showing bridges, reflected lights, and a few fluffy clouds

The beautiful river Clyde, Glasgow, Scotland
❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Th1 cells express Tfh effector molecules and associate with B cells at the T-B border following viral infection
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

European HCC guidelines: biopsy before immunotherapy! Is that what you all following?
@atoosarabiee.bsky.social @renumathyd.bsky.social @ebtapper.bsky.social
#liversky #gastrosky

www.annalsofoncology.org/action/showP...

“Alright my Liver?” @anniejarcher.bsky.social presenting at Overcoming inequalities in liver disease event in Birmingham on the great work conducted as part of this NHSE funded programme in delivering outreach clinics to detect early stage liver disease and support onward management. #liversky

Emanual Maverakis et al. use single-cell and bulk RNA-seq and immunohistochemistry to characterize necrobiosis and identified SPP1 and CCL5 as novel therapeutic targets for NL and NXG, rare diseases without a highly effective therapy: buff.ly/7htsyLe

Measles-spreading parties are extremely dangerous.

'More than 3 million doses of anti-D containing Harrison's blood have been issued to Australian mothers since 1967.'
❤️👶🤱

Six rules to tackle health misinformation VaccinesWork spoke to Professor Liam Smeeth, Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, on their new key principles to inform the fight against misinformation.

Why do people share health #misinformation? Research shows it’s often out of genuine concern, not malice. Here’s why empathy is a key approach in changing the conversation:

Again and again

Continue HCC surveillance based on diagnosis of cirrhosis prior to SVR.

This study showed NIT dynamics do not reliably exclude those at risk for HCC post SVR 👇🏼
@jhepatology.bsky.social
#Liversky

Democratic Republic of the Congo deepens investigation on cluster of illness and community deaths in Equateur province Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and experts from World Health Organization (WHO) are carrying out further investigations to determine the cause of another cluster of illness...

The #WHO put out a detailed statement on the ongoing outbreak of unknown cause happening in the north western DRC. Health authorities & WHO experts are on the ground working to determine the cause & strengthen response efforts. Here’s what we know so far. 🧵👇
www.afro.who.int/countries/de...

A call for the United States to continue investing in science
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
@acasadevall1.bsky.social @bladerlab.bsky.social @goodrumviruslab.bsky.social
Highlights of U.S. government-funded advances in biomedical sciences/healthcare:

Today is #RareDiseaseDay!

Join us in raising awareness for individuals with a rare disease, with over 3.5 million people living with a rare disease in the UK alone.

📖 Read more about rare diseases and the work of the BSI-CIPN in our latest blog: bit.ly/4kmwIsX

Regulatory T cells constrain T cells of shared specificity to enforce tolerance during infection @science.org

"Over the past five years, more than 1,200 people died after they got close to the top of a waiting list for a transplant but were skipped, The Times found."
#medsky #liversky #kidney #heart #liver #transplant

#liversky #gastrosky

Unfortunately, this sort of disruption has dangerous consequences for all - viruses know no borders. #virosky #medsky #flu #vaccine #influenza