🚨 new paper alert 🚨 Here, we describe and evaluate a "best-of-both-worlds" vaccine technology platform that combines the benefits of mRNA vaccines and computationally designed protein nanoparticle immunogens: bit.ly/47s7btG.

Excited to share our study reporting the first Sin Nombre virus (SNV) genome sequences from the Northwestern U.S., and the first ever from a vole host. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hayashi et al. demonstrate that human touch-induced pleasurable tickling promotes affinity between rats and human hands. This is accompanied by increased OTR expression in the VMHvl, and blocking the oxytocin signaling inhibits such affinity. Find out more here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

A paper from our pancoronavirus vaccine P01 grant group is now out in Science Translational Medicine. Here we show that non-stabilized spike delivered as mRNA is sufficient to elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies in monkeys. @alexschaefer.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that today wasn’t friday

Our study screening the majority of all published Merbecovirus RBD’s for cell entry phenotypes is now published in Nature Communications! (1/5) shorturl.at/gYz4E

A new study may have uncovered exactly what makes orange cats special: cnn.it/3FaYuJc

Delighted to share our most recent work on designing broadly protective sarbecovirus vaccines and defining the path forward for other coronaviruses. Led by @aminaddetia.bsky.social @hhmi.org www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Researchers in #ScienceAdvances have discovered a genetic footprint that helps explain herding dogs’ mental acuity and keen social skills. scim.ag/3RO3RRd

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

Saved from death in the paper grave yard! Started in 2016. MERS-CoV infects epithelial cells, they die, pathology is wicked bad. Adaptive immune cells both control replication and drive pathogenesis. #coronavirus #MERSCoV #pathogenesis #LoveVirology #viruses #virus journals.asm.org/eprint/ZZEIT...

Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉) "Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Researchers challenged longhorn crazy ants and humans with the same task: maneuvering a T-shaped object through two consecutive open doorways. Single humans always outperformed single ants, but ant groups could beat human groups. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Ebola disease: bridging scientific discoveries and clinical application www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

So much needed!! Great Review in STM from @alexschaefer.bsky.social and colleagues! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our paper describing a ferritin nanoparticle RBD vaccine that protects mice against #SARSCoV and #MERSCoV and neutralizes highly mutated #SARSCoV2 #VOCs is out in #CellReports Team effort with #TheDHVI @alexschaefer.bsky.social thread👇🏼

The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...