A fascinating look at how our cells recognize infection! Researchers found that the immune sensor MDA5 bound to mostly the body's own RNA during infection, including abnormal RNA that accumulated during infection. Abnormal RNA processing may help activate immune responses! @yeastychic.bsky.social

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Our new preprint 📄 We established a human brain organoid model of West Nile virus infection and used single-cell RNA-seq to ask why WNV infects some neural cells but not others. The trail led to a druggable metabolic enzyme 🧠🦠💊 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #WestNileVirus

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And those threats are focussed more on women than men. Perhaps because extremism and anti-women sentiment are linked in men.

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Modern websites are so much worse than they were in 1998

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Essay: Instead of asking what nerves do to cancer, my work reveals how cancer injures and reprograms peripheral nerves to drive immune evasion and how targeting this process restores immunotherapy responses www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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