Hikaru Katani

These immune cells won Nobel fame — can they solve autoimmune disease? Regulatory T cells, which help to dampen inflammation, are being used in clinical trials against ailments such as rheumatoid arthritis.

The class of immune cells at the centre of Monday’s Nobel prize is showing promise as a treatment for autoimmune diseases, cancer and even organ transplants — but there are still key challenges to overcome before these cells can be used in therapies in the clinic.

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A Nobel medal

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

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Connecting chemical and protein sequence space to predict biocatalytic reactions - Nature A two-phase machine-learning-based tool making use of high-throughput experimentation is introduced to examine the connections between chemical and protein sequence space and predict productive biocatalytic reactions among substrate and enzyme pairs.

Really cool and powerful!

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Songs of the striped mouse show who’s friend and who’s foe Ultrasonic calls, too high for the human ear to detect, convey a wealth of information across the rodent’s territory.

In the African desert, wild mice ‘sing’ tunes that don’t travel far but help the animals to tell neighbours from strangers

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Screenshot of the article header from Synthese, titled ‘Driftability and niche construction,’ authored by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda and Grant Ramsey.

Organisms alter selective pressures in many ways. But can they also shape the drift probabilities of their populations? In our recent paper, we argue that they can—and, in doing so, we expand the scope of #nicheconstruction theory 📄👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #HPBio #evobio #ecology #HPS

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Phagocytic clearance of targeted cells with a synthetic ligand - Nature Biomedical Engineering A synthetic protein ligand enables the recognition of surface proteins on unwanted cells, targeting them for engulfment and elimination in vivo.

Wonderful engineering research utilizing phospholipid dynamics on cell membranes with well-confirmed in vitro results.

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