John Tregoning

Cold plunges and kombucha: Do winter wellness trends work? Experts weigh in on whether cold water swimming, drinking kombucha and taking vitamins can boost your immune system.

7th most read article on the BBC today
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YouTube video by BBC - World at One / PM Why do people want to live forever? | BBC Radio 4 PM

Was on BBC Radio 4 yesterday talking about ageing and people desperately seeking to avoid it!
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It’s a new term: here are 99 lab hacks Nature asked contributors, editors and working researchers to share their best advice for scientists.

Top lab tips from @nature.com
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Putin’s quest for longevity – podcast At a recent ceremony for world leaders in Beijing, a hot mic picked up a surprising exchange between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping about the possibility of living to 150. Putin suggested the secret mi...

Putin, Xi and the obsession with radical life extension. Fascinating chat with @prof-tregoning.bsky.social and @pjotrsauer.bsky.social 🧪
With @elliebury.bsky.social
And Tom Glasser
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Immunology of RNA-based vaccines: the critical interplay between inflammation and expression Given the explosion of RNA vaccines in the last 5 years, this review explores gaps in knowledge and what is needed to fill these. Tregoning and colleagues focus on the immune response to RNA vaccines,...

Great to see our review about RNA vaccines out.
It covers the knowns and unknowns and where next

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Don't forget, you can get another 'dose' of @prof-tregoning.bsky.social next week at WeHaveWaysPod WHWFest ... there's more to John than meets the eye! Author of Live Forever?, he also played the drums (IYKNK) - and knows his stuf, WW2-wise ...

Jolly excited doesn't begin to cover it! From Moran to Morell, with infections, gangrene (😷), immunology and all things medical in between - our guest editor this week on #NewsoftheWar is @prof-tregoning.bsky.social ...

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With @prof-tregoning.bsky.social as our special guest editor this week, we have hard-hitting facts - and EXCELLENT RABBIT HOLES - about gangrene, penicillin, mortality, immunology, and more. @andyaitch.bsky.social @merrynwalters.uk

Jolly excited about this weeks episode, in a mid season break of 1941 we have our first guest editor for News Of The War!

@prof-tregoning.bsky.social joins @andyaitch.bsky.social and @merrynwalters.uk to talk about infections, immunology, horse serum and much more.
🚨 Friday 5th September 🚨

💉🌐 Oral vaccines are cheap, easy & life-saving, but why do they underperform in the places they’re needed most?

This paper highlights multifactorial causes & urges tailored solutions for equity in immunisation.

👉 https://bit.ly/42aACy3

#ImmunisationAwarenessMonth

Manipulating the delivery and immunogenicity of DNA vaccines through the addition of CB[8] to cationic polymers Nucleic acid vaccines require antigen expression and inflammation to induce the adaptive immune response. Sallah and colleagues explored the use of cucurbiturils as supramolecular “hosts” to crosslink...

And third, manipulating DNA delivery through the inclusion of cucurbit[n]urils (CBs), as supramolecular “hosts,” into nucleic acid-polymer polyplexes
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Nanoscale Biodegradable Printing for Designed Tuneability of Vaccine Delivery Kinetics - PubMed Two-photon polymerization (2PP) 3D printing enables top-down biomaterial synthesis with nanoscale spatial resolution for de novo design of monodisperse injectable drug delivery systems. Spatiotemporal...

Secondly in collaboration with @djpeeler.bsky.social
David developed a novel long lasting drug delivery approach using teeny tiny particles printed on a tiny 3D printer
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Intranasal delivery of mRNA expressing newly identified Acinetobacter baumannii antigens protects against bacterial lung disease - npj Vaccines npj Vaccines - Intranasal delivery of mRNA expressing newly identified Acinetobacter baumannii antigens protects against bacterial lung disease

Just to flag some papers from the lab
First up - we identified novel antigens from Acinetobacter baumannii and demonstrated greater protection when delivered intranasally
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very excited that we are looking for a new lab member. If you are interested in viral immunology have a look at this job advert. You will work in 2 labs, ours and @prof-tregoning.bsky.social at @imperialnhli.bsky.social @imperialinfect.bsky.social

Research Assistant in Vaccine Immunology at Imperial College London Discover Research Assistant in Vaccine Immunology jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

We have a new research assistant role co-supervised with @cjohansson-lab.bsky.social

Working on #vaccines and #immunology

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOH045/r...

@imperialmed.bsky.social

Description Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...

Exciting Opportunity
Head of Department of Infectious Disease.

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Artist | Profs Daniel M Davis & John Tregoning: Boosting Immune Health – To Live, Well, Forever? Profs Daniel M Davis & John Tregoning: Boosting Immune Health – To Live, Well, Forever?

I'm ‪@latitudefestival.bsky.social‬ this weekend
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Artist | Profs Daniel M Davis & John Tregoning: Boosting Immune Health – To Live, Well, Forever? Profs Daniel M Davis & John Tregoning: Boosting Immune Health – To Live, Well, Forever?

Coming to @latitudefestival.bsky.social — With @prof-tregoning.bsky.social. See you there www.latitudefestival.com/artists/prof...

Short notice (3rd July) - but another PhD klaxon 🚨
Developing AI tools to predict RNA virus evolution.

We need people with computing/ genetics/ sequencing backgrounds.

4 yr DTP program. @imperialmed.bsky.social @imperialinfect.bsky.social

ai4health.io/apply/

Live Forever?: A Curious Scientist's Guide to Wellness, Ageing and Death Live Forever?: A Curious Scientist's Guide to Wellness, Ageing and Death eBook : Tregoning, John S.: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Just 24 hours left to buy Live Forever at the frankly ludicrously low price of 99p
There are a lot of things, that are a lot worse, and will cause you to die sooner that are very much more expensive.
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Number 1!

only 99p now on kindle

Only 99p!
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Described by @benwillbond.bsky.social as funny, fascinating and now only 99p on Kindle...
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my new book is only 99p on kindle today
get it while it's ridiculously cheap
it'll change your life (it did mine)
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If you enjoyed my talk - why not read more in my book Live Forever - it's 99p today!
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Congratulations to @prof-tregoning.bsky.social on your successful #ImperialInaugural! 🥳

If you couldn’t be there in person, no worries — you can watch the replay!

@imperialinfect.bsky.social

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YouTube video by Imperial College London Viruses, vaccines, and the written word

thanks to everyone who attended my inaugural IRL and online,
if you missed it it is here
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Al and Lou standing with a cardboard cutout of Prof Tregoning

It’s time for @prof-tregoning.bsky.social’s @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Inaugural!

You can watch online here: www.youtube.com/live/ePX3hjl...

YouTube video by The Royal Institution A scientist's guide to wellness, ageing and death - with John Tregoning

NEW VIDEO

Could humans live forever? Immunologist @prof-tregoning.bsky.social illuminates the age-limiting processes inside our bodies, explaining how organs can go wrong, and debunking anti-ageing "hacks" along the way.

Watch now ⬇️ youtu.be/Cl15m2SQqAo

MRC MultiSci iCASE Studentships MRC MultiSci iCASE Studentships enable graduates with excellent honours degrees to undertake a three and a half year training programme, which includ...

We have a funded PhD studentship on RSV antibodies working with RQ bio, deadline June 30

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