Ester Gea-Mallorquí
@estergeama.bsky.social
I still like viruses🦠👩🏽🔬🔬😷 in love with DCs🫶🏼 👩🏻🔬 at the Centre for Immuno-Oncology @oxcio.bsky.social (University of Oxford) | PhD at the @institutcurie.bsky.social | Polyglot- Catalan, English, French, Spanish and a bit of Basque 📸🏔️📖🧵🌷🥐
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
Mechanism for selection and inhibition of an HIV-1 escape virus by T cells and NK cells (TCR- and KIR2DL2-HLA-C*12:02-peptide complexes)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natcomms.nature.com @hokkaidouniv.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natcomms.nature.com @hokkaidouniv.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Mechanism for selection and inhibition of an HIV-1 escape virus by T cells and NK cells (TCR- and KIR2DL2-HLA-C*12:02-peptide complexes)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natcomms.nature.com @hokkaidouniv.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natcomms.nature.com @hokkaidouniv.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
Some disease-ridden French soldiers have just received a new diagnosis — although it comes about two centuries too late
go.nature.com/4obJzzy
go.nature.com/4obJzzy
How Napoleon’s army met its doom: DNA reveals surprise illnesses had a role
Remains of some of the 300,000 soldiers who died on the retreat from Moscow reveal two bacterial diseases that probably added to the death count.
go.nature.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Some disease-ridden French soldiers have just received a new diagnosis — although it comes about two centuries too late
go.nature.com/4obJzzy
go.nature.com/4obJzzy
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
Y hoy, en Viva la ciencia:
Una terapia experimental salva la vida de más de medio centenar de niños con una enfermedad letal
elpais.com/ciencia/2025...
Una terapia experimental salva la vida de más de medio centenar de niños con una enfermedad letal
elpais.com/ciencia/2025...
Una terapia experimental salva la vida de más de medio centenar de niños con una enfermedad letal
El tratamiento, que se administra una sola vez y listo, ha permitido que la niña Eliana Nachem, encerrada en su casa para evitar infecciones, salga al mundo
elpais.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Y hoy, en Viva la ciencia:
Una terapia experimental salva la vida de más de medio centenar de niños con una enfermedad letal
elpais.com/ciencia/2025...
Una terapia experimental salva la vida de más de medio centenar de niños con una enfermedad letal
elpais.com/ciencia/2025...
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
I am so proud to say that our paper is now available at Aging Cell. There is a paucity of data as to how the menopause impacts your immune system, and the aim of this study was to investigate the impact of the menopause on monocyte phenotype and function.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Age‐Associated Inflammatory Monocytes Are Increased in Menopausal Females and Reversed by Hormone Replacement Therapy
Post-menopausal females (> 64 years) have an increase in frequency of inflammatory monocyte populations with defective phagocytosis as compared to pre-menopausal (< 40 years) females. Hormone Replace....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I am so proud to say that our paper is now available at Aging Cell. There is a paucity of data as to how the menopause impacts your immune system, and the aim of this study was to investigate the impact of the menopause on monocyte phenotype and function.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
Why does the naked mole rat have the longest lifespan of any rodent, nearly 40 years?
A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today!
Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today!
Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Why does the naked mole rat have the longest lifespan of any rodent, nearly 40 years?
A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today!
Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today!
Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
October 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
Fwd: Fwd: “I hope this email finds you well”
October 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Fwd: Fwd: “I hope this email finds you well”
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
"Jane Goodall showed us what a life in science could look like: rigorous discovery paired with fierce advocacy for what you study. She gave the world six decades of groundbreaking research on chimpanzees and their habitats, then turned that knowledge into a global movement for conservation." (1/2)
October 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"Jane Goodall showed us what a life in science could look like: rigorous discovery paired with fierce advocacy for what you study. She gave the world six decades of groundbreaking research on chimpanzees and their habitats, then turned that knowledge into a global movement for conservation." (1/2)
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
As we mourn Jane Goodall, this @nature.com article explores three ways in which she changed science:
1. Altering the way we view both other primates and ourselves
2. Inspiring generations of women scientists
3. Communicating science in a way that engaged the public
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
1. Altering the way we view both other primates and ourselves
2. Inspiring generations of women scientists
3. Communicating science in a way that engaged the public
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science
The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.
www.nature.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM
As we mourn Jane Goodall, this @nature.com article explores three ways in which she changed science:
1. Altering the way we view both other primates and ourselves
2. Inspiring generations of women scientists
3. Communicating science in a way that engaged the public
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
1. Altering the way we view both other primates and ourselves
2. Inspiring generations of women scientists
3. Communicating science in a way that engaged the public
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
One of most beautiful posters in Catalan from the Spanish Civil War. "Peasant!: the revolution needs your efforts." Socialist UGT trade union. By Josep Subirats
October 2, 2025 at 9:55 AM
One of most beautiful posters in Catalan from the Spanish Civil War. "Peasant!: the revolution needs your efforts." Socialist UGT trade union. By Josep Subirats
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?
Tough new conditions to be imposed on migrants who want to settle in the UK will not apply to more than a million people who arrived in the UK under the post-Brexit immigration surge
Labour’s tough new rules will not apply to migrants already in UK
www.thetimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
Image from the funeral procession of anarchist leader Buenaventura Durruti. At front is Natividad Falú Duval from Puerto Rico who had lived in Barcelona since 1916. In 1936 joined the Durruti Column. POUM aid office Socorrs Roig behind. La Rambla, 22 November 1936. Don't know 📸
September 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Image from the funeral procession of anarchist leader Buenaventura Durruti. At front is Natividad Falú Duval from Puerto Rico who had lived in Barcelona since 1916. In 1936 joined the Durruti Column. POUM aid office Socorrs Roig behind. La Rambla, 22 November 1936. Don't know 📸
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
A person's genetics has a role in susceptibility to many diseases (Figure), but has little correlation with how the disease may progress or lead to a fatal outcome.
nature.com/articles/s4158
nature.com/articles/s4158
September 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
A person's genetics has a role in susceptibility to many diseases (Figure), but has little correlation with how the disease may progress or lead to a fatal outcome.
nature.com/articles/s4158
nature.com/articles/s4158
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
This captures much of the frustration of today.
September 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This captures much of the frustration of today.
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
"Two viable female candidates run for president in the last decade and lose to a man who can't make complete sentences. It says more about us as a society.
September 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"Two viable female candidates run for president in the last decade and lose to a man who can't make complete sentences. It says more about us as a society.
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
Congrats to @summabibby.bsky.social @naphakm.bsky.social Daniel Watterson et al. here at SCMB on the first high-res cryo-EM structures of yellow fever virus! Striking vaccine vs virulent particle differences and a single R380 residue shaping antigenicity & neutralisation. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
September 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Congrats to @summabibby.bsky.social @naphakm.bsky.social Daniel Watterson et al. here at SCMB on the first high-res cryo-EM structures of yellow fever virus! Striking vaccine vs virulent particle differences and a single R380 residue shaping antigenicity & neutralisation. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
Tomorrow #PreprintHub1 is starting for the 2025-2026 season! Laura Rosenberg from Mount Sinai will present a #preprint by the @BelkaidLab on how endogenous retroelements promote tolerance to dietary antigens.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
September 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Tomorrow #PreprintHub1 is starting for the 2025-2026 season! Laura Rosenberg from Mount Sinai will present a #preprint by the @BelkaidLab on how endogenous retroelements promote tolerance to dietary antigens.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
Labor productivity has more than doubled since the late 1960s. But workers’ compensation has barely budged.
Yes. The economy is rigged in favor of the wealthy.
Yes. The economy is rigged in favor of the wealthy.
September 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Labor productivity has more than doubled since the late 1960s. But workers’ compensation has barely budged.
Yes. The economy is rigged in favor of the wealthy.
Yes. The economy is rigged in favor of the wealthy.
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
Roman Barcino, 985 CE superimposed on map of Barcelona in 2022. Note. Barcino was pronounced "Barkino" with a hard K. By Jorge M Corada for @despertaferroed.bsky.social magazine
September 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Roman Barcino, 985 CE superimposed on map of Barcelona in 2022. Note. Barcino was pronounced "Barkino" with a hard K. By Jorge M Corada for @despertaferroed.bsky.social magazine
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
‘One jab will do the job’: Pakistan begins rollout of HPV vaccine to millions of girls.
Globally, cervical cancer is the 4th-most common cancer among women, but ranks third in Pakistan, where 64% of cases are fatal.
🧪♀️💉 #medsky
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Globally, cervical cancer is the 4th-most common cancer among women, but ranks third in Pakistan, where 64% of cases are fatal.
🧪♀️💉 #medsky
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘One jab will do the job’: Pakistan begins rollout of HPV vaccine to millions of girls
Despite vaccination hesitancy, the end may be in sight for cervical cancer, which kills 64% of women with the disease
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
‘One jab will do the job’: Pakistan begins rollout of HPV vaccine to millions of girls.
Globally, cervical cancer is the 4th-most common cancer among women, but ranks third in Pakistan, where 64% of cases are fatal.
🧪♀️💉 #medsky
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Globally, cervical cancer is the 4th-most common cancer among women, but ranks third in Pakistan, where 64% of cases are fatal.
🧪♀️💉 #medsky
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
For generations doctors have understood that germs — like bacteria or viruses — cause infectious diseases.
Yet we now have an HHS Secretary casting doubt on the germ theory — the foundation of modern medicine.
That’s not only unacceptable, it is dangerous. RFK Jr. must resign.
Yet we now have an HHS Secretary casting doubt on the germ theory — the foundation of modern medicine.
That’s not only unacceptable, it is dangerous. RFK Jr. must resign.
RFK Jr does not just reject vaccines. He rejects science and must step down | Bernie Sanders
Kennedy is unfit to be our nation’s leading public health official because he rejects the fundamental principles of modern science
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
For generations doctors have understood that germs — like bacteria or viruses — cause infectious diseases.
Yet we now have an HHS Secretary casting doubt on the germ theory — the foundation of modern medicine.
That’s not only unacceptable, it is dangerous. RFK Jr. must resign.
Yet we now have an HHS Secretary casting doubt on the germ theory — the foundation of modern medicine.
That’s not only unacceptable, it is dangerous. RFK Jr. must resign.
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
Come visit our Centre for Immuno-Oncology activities at the Old Road Campus Research Building for @ox.ac.uk Open Doors! Learn about the amazing science we do in our department through fun games. Kids will understand antigens and there’s a complicated enigma for the grown ups 🔍👩🔬👨🔬🧪 #OxfordUOpenDoors
September 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Come visit our Centre for Immuno-Oncology activities at the Old Road Campus Research Building for @ox.ac.uk Open Doors! Learn about the amazing science we do in our department through fun games. Kids will understand antigens and there’s a complicated enigma for the grown ups 🔍👩🔬👨🔬🧪 #OxfordUOpenDoors
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
From large national databases to bespoke sample collections, biobanks offer a wealth of avenues for scientific enquiry.
go.nature.com/4nlybAb
go.nature.com/4nlybAb
Using biobanks to boost research: a how-to guide
From large national databases to bespoke sample collections, biobanks offer a wealth of avenues for scientific enquiry.
go.nature.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
From large national databases to bespoke sample collections, biobanks offer a wealth of avenues for scientific enquiry.
go.nature.com/4nlybAb
go.nature.com/4nlybAb
Reposted by Ester Gea-Mallorquí
Sequence data from the new Ebola outbreak in DRC suggests it is indeed a new spillover.
And just incredible to see the virus sequenced and the data publicly shared less than 24 hours after confirmation of the outbreak.
#IDsky 🧪
virological.org/t/the-16th-e...
And just incredible to see the virus sequenced and the data publicly shared less than 24 hours after confirmation of the outbreak.
#IDsky 🧪
virological.org/t/the-16th-e...
The 16th Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in Bulape Health Zone, Kasai, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A new spillover event from an unknown reservoir host
Background The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is currently facing concurrent outbreaks including mpox, cholera and malaria (1-4). The Ministry of Public Health, DRC has declared the 16th Ebola...
virological.org
September 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Sequence data from the new Ebola outbreak in DRC suggests it is indeed a new spillover.
And just incredible to see the virus sequenced and the data publicly shared less than 24 hours after confirmation of the outbreak.
#IDsky 🧪
virological.org/t/the-16th-e...
And just incredible to see the virus sequenced and the data publicly shared less than 24 hours after confirmation of the outbreak.
#IDsky 🧪
virological.org/t/the-16th-e...