Joy Edwards-Hicks
@joyedwardshicks.bsky.social
Immunologist at The University of Edinburgh working on immune cell metabolism and ageing. BBSRC Discovery Fellow. UCU.
I am pleased to offer another PhD opportunity supervised by myself and @joyedwardshicks.bsky.social Here we will investigate how neural signals regulate adaptive immune responses www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
EASTBIO - Investigating how neural signalling regulates adaptive immune responses at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EASTBIO - Investigating how neural signalling regulates adaptive immune responses at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Mitochondria Are More Than Powerhouses—They’re the Motherboard of the Cell great work by Martin Picard www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
The Hidden Social Lives of Mitochondria
When these energy-giving organelles thrive, so do we
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Great story from @jonelaleccia.bsky,social apnews.com/article/zepb...
Zepbound beats Wegovy for weight loss in first head-to-head trial of blockbuster drugs
A new study shows that people Zepbound lost about 50% more weight than those using Wegovy. It was the first head-to-head trial of the blockbuster weight-loss medications.
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1/10 Today in @science.org in collaboration with the Liu group we report the development of a laboratory-evolved CRISPR-associated transposase (evoCAST) that supports therapeutically relevant levels of RNA-programmable gene insertion in human cells. drive.google.com/file/d/1I-Ub...
Some cover art I made for a great paper about the body’s clock and biological aging! #SciArt
Björn Schumacher@bjornschumacher.bsky.social · last yr.Read here our original article showing the biological age prediction by accumulating stochastic variation alone. With @meyer.bsky.social and a wonderful cover art designed by @maayanvisuals.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...
✊ Dundee Uni backs down from plans to cut 700 jobs after pressure from unions and the community. Now they must take compulsory redundancies off the table. Solidarity works.
UCU Scotland@ucuscotland.bsky.social · last yr.It’s a relief to see Dundee University backtrack on 700 job cuts. We now need the employer to take compulsory redundancies off the table #StopTheCuts @ducuuo.bsky.social www.ucu.org.uk/article/1399...
Paradoxically, both GIPR agonism and antagonism potentiate weight loss when paired with GLP-1R agonism. Two new studies in @natmetabolism.nature.com decode the different neural mechanisms employed by each strategy. Check out the #News&Views by @adriaenssenslab.bsky.social here.
Nature Metabolism@natmetabolism.nature.com · last yr.
The UK government is promoting a “strategic shift” from “treatment to prevention.” Healthcare alone cannot restrain demand and prevention requires action on wider determinants of health, say Vageesh Jain and Thomas Beaney www.bmj.com/content/389/...
So depressing...
Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · last yr.Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...
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The 15‐Year Survival Advantage: Immune Resilience as a Salutogenic Force in Healthy Aging
Human aging shows puzzling diversity: similar aging rates yet vastly different health outcomes. Our study of ~17,500 people revealed a health-promoting trait (more common in women) linked to strong i....
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#Hiring soon for a research assistant with a BSc in #pharmacology, #physiology or #biochemistry. Looking for someone young and eager to learn, pre-PhD. Job advert will go live in a few weeks #newPI #Sheffield #neuroscience #brainbloodflow #CBF #science
I write about marimo, and how to choose the right programming language for your research, today in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which programming language should I use? A guide for early-career researchers
Computer scientists and bioinformaticians address four key questions to help rookie coders to make the right choice.
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Plasma membrane transbilayer asymmetry of PI(4,5)P2 drives unconventional secretion of Fibroblast Growth Factor 2 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.19.649664v1
179 experts. 28 countries. 1 message: Long COVID is real, multi-systemic, and devastating. It affects over 400 million people. And we're not prepared. New global consensus just dropped. link.springer.com/content/pdf/10… 🧵
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Happy to share our most recent review on mitochondria-organelle metabolic communication with Yatrik Shah and Costas Lyssiotis now online at Molecular Cell! We explored aspect of lipid transfer, organelle membrane contacts, ROS, metabolites, and metals! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Mitochondria-organelle crosstalk in establishing compartmentalized metabolic homeostasis
Mitochondria serve as central hubs in cellular metabolism by sensing, integrating, and responding to metabolic demands. This integrative function is a…
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www.nature.com/articles/s42... Metabolites are not genes. repeat, please!
Metabolites are not genes — avoiding the misuse of pathway analysis in metabolomics - Nature Metabolism
Pathway analysis, originally developed for gene expression data, has been adapted for metabolomics. However, owing to the unique characteristics and constraints of metabolites compared with genes, pat...
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Cells are swapping their mitochondria. What does this mean for our health? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Cells are swapping their mitochondria. What does this mean for our health?
Researchers are studying why the energy factories are moving between cells and whether the process can be harnessed to treat cancer and other diseases.
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It used to be thought that T-cell priming occurred as single phase. Now we know it takes two. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org
A distinct priming phase regulates CD8 T cell immunity by orchestrating paracrine IL-2 signals
T cell priming is characterized by an initial activation phase that involves stable interactions with dendritic cells (DCs). How activated T cells receive the paracrine signals required for their diff...
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Targeting senescent hepatocytes for treatment of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and multi-organ dysfunction - Nature Communications
MASLD is a growing global health concern. Here, the authors define a senescent hepatocyte gene signature (SHGS), demonstrate its clinical relevance, and identify senolytic therapies that selectively e...
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Scientists have created the first map of mitochondria throughout the entire brain https://go.nature.com/4c8CLNM
First map of human brain mitochondria is ‘groundbreaking’ achievement
Nature - Hundreds of cubes of human brain tissue help scientists to chart the energy-making capabilities of various brain regions.
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Check out this new podcast by my friend @anideshpande.bsky.social! It aims to delve into the history of groundbreaking discoveries in life, science and medicine. The first episode is a fascinating journey through our understanding of diabetes. I looking forward to future episodes!
E1 Diabetes Roots
YouTube video by Discovery Dialogues
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Asymmetric phosphoinositide lipid bilayers generated by spontaneous lipid insertion https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.26.645509v1
Neutrophil progenitor cell therapy rescues host defense against Staphylococcus aureus in murine chronic granulomatous disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.26.645550v1
Macrophage ferroptosis inhibits Aspergillus conidial killing in lung transplantation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.13.643092v1
A truly depressing article in #Nature listing of all the damage done to #science in the US by the Trump administration in just one month 💔 for so many friends and colleagues there #solidarityforscience 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Are lipids actively sorted during clathrin mediated endocytosis like proteins? @mathilda95.bsky.social addresses this key open question together with our collaborators from the Honigmann and Modes labs using a new Lipid-STED workflow. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Elovl1-depleted T cells gain increased fitness and synergize with anti-PD-1 therapy to enhance antitumour responses @nature.com
Disrupting cholesterol homeostasis in T cells boosts antitumour responses - Nature Metabolism
A new study identifies a mechanism by which Elovl1 deletion disrupts the canonical feedback inhibition of cholesterol synthesis in T cells. By fundamentally rewiring cholesterol metabolism, Elovl1-dep...
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