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Senior Scientist and Group Leader @monashuniversity.bsky.social
#Bcell #germinalcenter #plasmacell #antibody #vaccines
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The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence
"implications are profound"
New @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com/articles/s41...
A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature
Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...
nature.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
As a first Bluesky post, I’m happy to share our latest publication @emboreports.org:
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Led by Craig McKenzie, we used CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to investigate how Syndecan-1 (CD138) and -4 (SDC4) influence B-cell development and activation.
#ImmunoSky #MonashUni
March 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM