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Beyond excited to share our #NewPaper in @CellCellPress! Inflamed environments acidify intracellular pH. BRD4 senses this via transcriptional condensates, tuning #macrophage responses to match demand and consequences of inflammation. #inflammation #pH authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…

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Incredibly exciting announcement. Johns Hopkins University will provide $80M per year for the next two years to support large Life Sciences projects. (1) Transformational Science Teams awards: >$10M each, $40M/year. (2) High-impact individual awards: $200-500K each, $40M/year.
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Amazing opportunity to join a vibrant community of scientists focused on progressing human health! Join us @BostonChildrens @harvardmed @Harvard 👇👇👇
We are thrilled to announce an opening for a tenure-track assistant professor in PCMM, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Immunology! Apply by August 2, 2026.
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NEW: Professor Xiaowei Zhuang has been awarded the 2026 Dickson Prize in Medicine, @pitt_medicine's highest honor: medschool.pitt.edu/news/xiao…
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from @RMedzhitov &Karen Agaronyan. Natural&microbial proteases cause vascular disruption, blood cell extravasation. heme sensed by alveolar macrophages to elicit protection and tissue adaptation #unifyingframework for tissue-level sensing and adaptation biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…

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Excited to share our study by @keylas3 et al. on pathological autoantibodies in people with Long COVID. We asked whether IgG in patients with Long COVID bind to human tissues/antigens and cause pathologies when transferred into mice. With @PutrinoLab doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2026.…
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Thanks for sharing @LabWaggoner, nowadays it is not really out there until you do! 🤗
A glycan-based adjuvant expands the breadth and duration of protection of mRNA-based vaccines nature.com/articles/s41590-0… @Lo_Zanzi @harvardmed @kjena21 @NatImmunol
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LIMmunity 2nd brew !! Motherhood comes with superpower: pathogen protection! nature.com/articles/s41586-0… We often think moms are immunologically vulnerable to tolerate the baby. But I always wondered: why would evolution make such a critical period of life so dangerous?
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#EveryCellIsAnImmuneCell! 💥#NewPaperAlert💥 Excited to share our latest review with @agharrison6 about molecular, cellular & #spatial control of the immune response regulated by #stromal, #innate, & #adaptive immune cells in the lymph node! Free link👉 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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A new study from the lab of Dr. @Anders_S_Hansen at @MIT suggests that #chromatin moves in distinct ways that help regulate gene expression and DNA repair, revealing how genes interact within the crowded nucleus over timescales from microseconds to hours. 🧬⏳ Read more: bit.ly/3P1uZyp
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Almost 20 years ago when I first came to Cambridge/Boston, ppl told me I was living in a bubble. I didn’t get it… I learnt what it meant, especially over the last few years… The bubble has bursted
Shocking new video shows a gunman opening fire indiscriminately on Memorial Drive in Cambridge. Police say there is no current threat to the public but the incident has shut down the usually busy road for hours on Monday afternoon.
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I wrote this piece to promote thoughtful, respectful, and rational engagement with controversial science topics. I hope it fosters constructive dialogue in the scientific community—thank you for reading and sharing 🙏🏼 @NatRevImmunol nature.com/articles/s41577-0…
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We developed Single-Molecule Localization and Diffusivity Microscopy (SMLDM), decoding of single-molecule localization and diffusion from a single frame without tracking. It's just online in Nature Methods. nature.com/articles/s41592-0… News report about SMLDM: biopic.pku.edu.cn/en/newscen…
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Jane Ying Wu, who took her own life, was cleared of wrongdoing by the US National Institutes of Health. Her family alleges that her employer destroyed her career. go.nature.com/3OZDs51
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Can google map fix their direction through blocked roads during Boston marathon?!🤬it’s already bad enough to go through rerouted traffic and Red Sox game traffic, all funneling through a road under construction… worst of it, ambulance were stuck for 10 mins at least🤯🤯🤯
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Authoritative review on interferons in health and disease from @Lo_Zanzi @BostonChildrens @harvardmed
Interferons in health and disease. Check out this review by @Lo_Zanzi & Daniel Boehmer in @CellCellPress #AAI2026 hubs.li/Q04c5DJg0
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Scientific publishing needs to change. In a new preprint, HHMI President Erin O'Shea and Bodo Stern argue that the incentives are misaligned. Researchers should be evaluated on what they choose to share, not what journals select. I’m proud that @hhmi_science is leading the way. Read the preprint here: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19600…

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Visibility in Academia, like in the world, is not fixed; it is produced. This piece “What Cell Biology Reveals About Academia” is a reminder that everyone has the potential to be either seen or unseen.    sciencepolitics.org/2026/03/…
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