Martin Turner
@martint-babraham.bsky.social
Immunologist interested in how the genome works https://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/lymphocyte/martin-turner @babrahaminst.bsky.social / immunity /ageing / the History of Science/ germinal centres/CD8 T cells
Congratulations to Helena for getting her first 1st-author paper in this highly-reputable, long-established journal. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
European Journal of Immunology 1st Time Authors
Expression and Role of the RNA-Binding Protein, ZFP36L1, in Mouse T Follicular Helper Cell Differentiation and Function DOI 10.1002/eji.70260 First published: 18 August 2026 Full text | PDF
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a clear analysis with some useful advice that is easy to put into practice
As Editor of @dev-journal.bsky.social I get asked "What are you doing about your impact factor?" In our new editorial we say: Ask not what Dev can do for the impact factor. Ask what you can do for Dev's IF The IF is about how we all cite, review & assess each other's work doi.org/10.1242/dev....
Going through my old records and came up with this. Its a gem.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Why pigs might help us develop better vaccines and drugs against influenza virus - Nature Reviews Immunology
Advances in genetic engineering, immunological tools, single-cell transcriptomics and in vivo imaging have strengthened the usefulness of pigs in influenza research. Alongside standardized challenge m...
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Due to alternative splicing that removes the TM–encoding exon, CD137 exists in both soluble and membrane forms, both expressed by Treg & critical for immunoregulation in #T1D @jem.org @medicalcollegeofwi.bsky.social rupress.org/jem/article/...
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RNA Society Public Statement on the Proposed OMB Rule Changes - RNA Society
The RNA Society is an international non-profit organization incorporated in the United States and dedicated to advancing RNA research and education. The Society is home to over 2,000 scientists (great...
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Congratulations to my final year PhD student Tahmid Hussain on winning a poster prize at Translation UK in Leeds #RNA
Why not just do both? Most 'green space' is grass fields for cows, which means methane farts plus CO2, methane and nitrous oxide greenhouse gas emissions from fertiliser. End animal farming and cover some fields in solar farms instead.
Why put solar panels on green space when we could put them over car parks?
looks very useful
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my Bluesky isn't showing pictures anymore and I have nt been able to remedy this. Help appreciated
Finally out in @Cellcellpress! Proteins with long IDRs are prone to misfolding during protein synthesis. This is prevented by mRNA 3′UTRs that act as mRNA-based IDR chaperones. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
mRNA 3′ UTRs chaperone intrinsically disordered regions to control protein activity
Highly conserved mRNA 3′ UTRs act as co-translational chaperones for intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), preventing inter-domain misfolding and enabling biogenesis of fully active proteins.
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What were the death tolls from pandemics in history? How many deaths were caused by different pandemics, and how have researchers estimated their death tolls? -by Saloni Dattani (12/7/2023 Our World In Data) Highly Informative article. Stunning data presentation. Follow @scientificdiscovery.dev
These estimates make COVID-19 one of the deadliest pandemics of the last century, along with the 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. I have written a related article about this:
Last night, I got to sit 5 rows away from a true force of nature, a woman who is the very definition of badass. Her performance was a benefit for the Centrum Arts organization. A force of nature, a badass, and a heart as big as all of us. Thank you, Ms. Raitt!
Bonnie Raitt - Burning Down The House - Newark 07-06-2017
YouTube video by aerofan2007
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youtu.be/n0XSOKQDHTU?... longer and more intriguing than the studio version
King Crimson - The Sheltering Sky (The Noise - Live At Fréjus 1982)
YouTube video by Bill Bruford
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very interesting and informative for the non-expert such as myself royalsociety.org/science-even...
Faraday Prize Lecture: This is not the AI we were promised | Royal Society
Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize Lecture presented by Professor Michael John Wooldridge
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Poly-ubiquitylated proteins proved trickier to purify for LC-MS than expected. Non-specific background swamped isolations: with histones and uncertainty! This led us to develop Ubi-SCAPE—for characterising the poly-ubiquitylome to unprecedented purity and depth. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Agree with this, Quality Journals can help here by publishing more theory and acting as conduit for discussion.
In this World View article, Ruslan Medzhitov discusses the perils of too much data and not enough theory in modern immunology rdcu.be/e2DCZ
This evil happened in a highly technologically and culturally sophisticated society and today we day remember the camp was liberated by the Russians in 1945. And we will remember tomorrow and for ever.
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
Just out @natrevimmunol.nature.com RNA-binding proteins and ribonucleoproteins as determinants of immunity www.nature.com/articles/s41... gives our perspective on this growing area of research. Special thanks to the editor Alexandra, for streamlining the manuscript.
RNA-binding proteins and ribonucleoproteins as determinants of immunity - Nature Reviews Immunology
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) considerably expand the information content of the genome and can determine the lifespan, localization and function of RNA, thereby controlling when, where and how much pro...
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