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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · 29d

Top insights from the Nadkarni group #preeclampsia #immunology

Suchita Nadkarni @suchita.bsky.social · 29d

Thrilled to have latest review published in ATVB @ahajournals.bsky.social on how immune cells shape vascular and cardiac responses in #preeclampsia
@qmulwhri.bsky.social

www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

American Heart Association Journals

www.ahajournals.org

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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · Aug 14

Getting Skynet vibes for when AI instigates the next pandemic!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

AI designs new superbug-killing antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA

Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.

www.bbc.co.uk

Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · Jul 11

I see a little (green) mouse peeping its head out of its nest. #fluoresencefriday #EndMT

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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · Jun 27

The Met Office are letting us submit our own storm name suggestions:

www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

There's space for five names in the submission boxes.

Let's go with:

Exxon Mobil
BP
Shell
Equinor
Chevron

At last, those companies will get the recognition they deserve.

Pls retweet!

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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · Jun 26

Enjoyed a fantastic WHRI Review Day yesterday and the Dufton Group came away with not one, but two, Poster Prizes! Congrats to Dr Josh Dignam and Ms Christina Gkantsinikoudi 🏆 @qmulwhri.bsky.social

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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · Jun 19

So close to the perfect normal distribution graph only sad that it’s data from my solar panels and not my research #geekingitupinthesun

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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · Jun 17

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Intracellular and nuclear CXCR4 signaling promotes terminal erythroblast differentiation and enucleation

CXCL12-stimulated intracellular and nuclear CXCR4 signaling mediates erythroblast enucleation to generate red blood cells.

www.science.org

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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · Jun 17

Fantastic to see a paper I played a small part of get highlighted on the Science website. Congrats to the amazing Dr Julia Gutjarh and the whole of Prof Antal Rot’s team at @qmulwhri.bsky.social @science.org

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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · Jun 13

My PhD student isolated some liver endothelial cells and got this brilliant image showing the gradual transition of health EC to full EndMT in a very satisfying circle. #fluorescencefriday #fibrosis

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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · Apr 14

Good Morning sunshine......Will you be my friEnd(MT)? Sorry sometimes my obsession with pareidolia gets the better of me #vascularbiology #endothelialcells #EndMT #facesinthings 😍

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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · Feb 14

Accidental Axolotl #fluorescencefriday #cardiac #endothelial cells

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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · Feb 5

Been having a play with some whole mount adipose tissues stained for various vascular markers by my brilliant BHF Master’s student Rose Wilcox @qmulwhri.bsky.social

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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · Jan 30

Been trying to line up some 3D projections of sequentially imaged liver vasculature for a 6 colour image….So close!

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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · Jan 13

Damn it can you not post Gifs on here?!

Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · Jan 13

Been wrestling with how to make an image of Full Spectrum Flow Cytometry and in the end decided to just making something that melts eyeballs - enjoy!

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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · Dec 16

Another year done and dusted and the group enjoyed a bit of Christmas cheer include find your favourite organ in the mystery bag tequilla challenge and junior science brainbox. Here’s to more vascular biology and ridiculous pub games in 2025

Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · Nov 28

Going through some photos on my phone and found this stunning widefield placenta must be one of @suchita.bsky.social !

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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · Nov 22

In the Dufton Group we like nothing more than transforming heart sections into birds. I disguised heart sections as a flamingo, parrot and pigeon while my PhD student produced a Peacock from the different the cardiac vessels. #fluorescencefriday

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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · Nov 18

Want to rename November to Experivember for the Dufton group. The Phd student has labelled 576 tubes and counting. Won’t be short of imaging to do in 2025!

Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · Nov 15

Squint at a western diet fed liver and it almost looks like a satellite image of islands in the sea #fluorescencefriday

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Suchita Nadkarni @suchita.bsky.social · Nov 15

Not sure who’s out there but applications are open for a short-term (potential to extend) junior PDRA position in my lab! Work will be on preclinical models of #maternal #inflammation during #pregnancy and impact on the #cardiovascular system. 👇🏽

qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/ap…

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Neil Dufton @neildufton.bsky.social · Nov 13

Hello, here I am with my usual brand of faces in immunofluorescence images

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