Two vaccine candidates using mRNA technology elicit a potent immune response against HIV

go.nature.com/4mu5q49

In @natbiotech.nature.com, CDS-affiliated @itaiyanai.bsky.social and @martinlercher.bsky.social discuss how openness fuels discovery.

They highlight the evolutionary nature of research and advocate for embracing a creative process.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔔Take a look at this article now published at Nature Cancer!

'Tumor antigens preferentially derive from unmutated genomic sequences in #melanoma and non-small cell #lungcancer'

✏️By Pierre Thibault, Claude Perreault & colleagues

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

A great story showcasing the brilliant Yi Ning Fu, who I had the privilege of supervising last year as a student with the equally fantastic @agrowlipowli.bsky.social. It's a huge pleasure scienceing with them.

30 years since the last, very exciting to see a new class of antibiotics! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New research suggests that there is no reputational penalty for shared first authorships, even for the person named second

https://go.nature.com/4l3qtdS

📸 Join Nature’s photo competition for a chance to be featured in the magazine, win a print and online subscription to the journal, and take home £500

Submit your best #ScientistAtWork photo to [email protected]. Entries close on Friday!

The first rule of virus making:

All you need is one,

but two is better.

Super cool example of viral trickery for oncolytic therapy

Nearly three-quarters of biomedical researchers think there is a reproducibility crisis in science

https://go.nature.com/4joYKTT

Implementation of intellectual property education in academic institutions can result in increased opportunities for protecting IP and limit costs, but to be successful technology transfer offices must also adapt go.nature.com/4iCtdhc
rdcu.be/d3sq8

🎁 Early Xmas present from your friends at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research @cvrinfo.bsky.social

We're thrilled to unwrap Viro3D - a comprehensive database of virus protein structures: >85,000 predicted structures from 4,400 human & animal viruses! 🦠

viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk

Science’s 2024 Breakthrough of the Year is lenacapavir, an injectable drug that demonstrated remarkable success at preventing HIV infection with one shot every 6 months.

Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: scim.ag/3BrCtUn

Not sure I can follow this new system ... HIV-1 = Lentivirus humimdef1? ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2024/12/11/n...

🚨PUBLICATION ALERT!🚨
Shameless promotion of our new book chapter describing CASPRR, the friendly method for making recombinant poxviruses. Features a stable Cas9/gRNA cell line for further acceleration of previous protocols. Thanks Stewart Smith, @dctscharke.bsky.social

dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-...

First case of HPAI H7N6 in New Zealand poultry. First HPAI ever reported in NZ, unrelated to AUS H7 outbreaks
👉https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/new-zealand-reports-first-case-h7-bird-flu-2024-12-02/#:~:text=Tests%20showed%20a%20rural%20chicken,raised%20fears%20of%20human%20transmission

Cool to see this story out, developing new tools for studying HIV-1C viruses. Check it out here:
www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16...

So very grateful for the opportunity to present at #AVS12 among amazing company. Looking forward to the next one.

AVS is now on bluesky - just in time for our biennial meeting starting today #AVS12