Good news keeps coming! Excited to share our latest preprint expanding myeloid cell editing capabilities: Virus-like particles enable targeted gene engineering and pooled CRISPR screening in primary human myeloid cells, led by Hyuncheol Jung and Pascal Devant joint with @juliacarnevale.bsky.social
Jaehyuk Choi
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Physician scientist at UTSW. T cell biologist geneticist dermatologist. Passionate about cancer and autoimmune disease. Co founder moonlight bio.
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Wow!!! 👏👏👏 Amazing to see this develop over the years! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/h...
People With Severe Diabetes Are Cured in Small Trial of New Drug
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☕Have you read this study from our journal (@naturecellbiology.bsky.social) yet? Studies of endolysosomes and #proteostasis suggest a role for lysosomal quality control in #Alzheimers disease pathology. bit.ly/4lSORPV
Proteostasis and lysosomal repair deficits in transdifferentiated neurons of Alzheimer’s disease - Nature Cell Biology
Chou et al. generate transdifferentiated human neurons from fibroblasts from young or aged individuals and patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Studies of endolysosomes and proteostasis suggest a role f...
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Ohio Medicaid got rid of big middlemen. Says it paid pharmacies a lot more — and saved $140M ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/04/17/o...
Ohio Medicaid got rid of big middlemen. Says it paid pharmacies a lot more — and saved $140M • Ohio Capital Journal
The Ohio Department of Medicaid department in 2022 gave powerful prescription drug middlemen the boot and created a new system. The result: Fees paid to pharmacies were boosted more than 1,200% while ...
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some GD T cell lymphomas are addicted to JAK-STAT signaling and relapse with new JAK-STAT mutations, much like melanomas to BRAF inhibitors. ? new approach ? to treating these aggressive diseases. cell of origin (GD cells) important but unclear why. stay tuned for more. www.jci.org/articles/vie...
JCI - Addiction of primary cutaneous γδ T cell lymphomas to JAK/STAT signaling
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DNMT1 inhibition reprograms T cells to NK-like cells with potent antitumor activity www.science.org/doi/10.1126...
Review @jimmunol.bsky.social Can autoimmune disease be cured by deep CD19+ cell depletion? doi.org/10.1093/jimm...
Cas12a-knock-in mice for multiplexed genome editing, disease modelling and immune-cell engineering www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thanks to Dr. Syal & @nbcnews.com for visiting our #CARTcell program to highlight one of our courageous little patients with #DIPG #DMG. So much work left to do but thankful for the support of Seattle Children’s and our brave families. ❤️ www.nbcnews.com/now/video/ex...
Experimental brain tumor treatment shows promise for pediatric brain cancer
Gavin Nielsen, who was 2 years old when he was diagnosed with a rare brain cancer, met Dr. Nicholas Vitanza who is part of a growing group of researchers exploring CAR-T therapy. The treatment program...
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AGO2 mediates immunotherapy failure via suppressing tumor IFN-gamma response-dependent CD8+ T cell immunity www.cell.com/cell-reports... @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
New #ScienceImmunology research involving mice and human tissues demonstrates how different immune cell types modify expression of stimulator of interferon genes (STING) to support their normal development and function. scim.ag/4idx7wn
Dynamic STING repression orchestrates immune cell development and function
Repression of STING expression in neutrophils and T lymphocytes is required for immune homeostasis and tumor response.
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How does sleep protect against neurodegenerative disease? A review, open-access www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Regulatory T cells with engineered specificity for HLA-DQ2.5–restricted deamidated gluten peptides exert bystander suppression in vivo www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#InterferonPower! Hongbo Chi &co @stjude.bsky.social @stjuderesearch.bsky.social show @nature.com that VDAC2 deficiency facilitates tumor destruction by T cell-driven IFNgamma by causing mitochondrial (mt) damage & mtDNA sensing by cGAS–STING, which drives type I IFNs & tumor death!
VDAC2 loss elicits tumour destruction and inflammation for cancer therapy - Nature
VDAC2 deficiency elicits uncontrolled IFNγ-induced BAK activation and mitochondrial damage for improved cancer therapy.
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Thrilled to share new work led by @jieyang437.bsky.social in the lab published today in @Nature. We find that Aspirin prevents metastasis by releasing T cells from immune suppression by platelet TXA2. @Cambridge_Uni @CRUKCamCentre rdcu.be/eci1U
#ScienceSaturday 🧵 ❓ Are B cells important to eliminate cancers? T cells, capable of directly killing cancers, have been widely studied in tumor immunology.
🎉 Congratulations 🥳 to our Director, @miriammerad.bsky.social, on winning this year’s Sjöberg Prize! Check out the video announcement below 🔽
🌟Sjöberg Laureate Miriam Merad has studied how cells in the innate immune system affect the body’s ability to fight tumours. Her discoveries have hugely contributed to making these cells a promising target for the development of new cancer therapies. www.kva.se/en/news/sjob... #Science #Academicsky
Review @nature.com @quintanalab.bsky.social The neuroimmune connectome in health and disease www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Repair Drive enables in vivo expansion of gene-targeted hepatocytes in adult mice www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
PD-L1 from tumor extracellular vesicles induces T cell senescence through lipid metabolism www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In chaotic times, it is important to emphasize how much i appreciate my fellow scientists and the science they do. Inspired countless times each day by my colleagues in the field.
The best part of science for me is when someone in the lab or a former lab member has awesome new data and rushes to share it. everything else pales in comparison.
Going post new things here and not on X. Will be focused on science/career development and drug development, with the occasional sports (Mets, Knicks, hockey) tweet..
Grants should focus more on the person/people doing the science>>the specific experimental minutae. Flexibility to follow the path the data illuminates>>>milestones and deliverables.
Cool paper using LLM to discover a protein sequence code for subcellular localization 👏 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Protein codes promote selective subcellular compartmentalization
Cells have evolved mechanisms to distribute ~10 billion protein molecules to subcellular compartments where diverse proteins involved in shared functions must assemble. Here, we demonstrate that prote...
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I believe that most of our society values science and scientists. We need to continue to communicate our findings and value to the public and advocate for increased research funding, especially for young investigators->they are the future.
In Brief: bluebird bio and @vertexpharma.bsky.social are the first to participate in a scheme to enable people with sickle cell disease to access treatments they would otherwise not be able to afford nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/d7Hss
Pricey sickle cell gene therapies primed for change - Nature Biotechnology
Nature Biotechnology - Pricey sickle cell gene therapies primed for change
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