Miha Kosmac
biomiha.bsky.social
Miha Kosmac
@biomiha.bsky.social
Mostly immunology and biotech. Sometimes cycling and travel. Very rarely politics or funny animal videos. All opinions are my own.
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After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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On the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Sometimes you just gotta look up and marvel about the things that human beings have built together.
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Pre-print alert! And this one really is a must read for anyone that does spectral #flowcytometry. It is a complete, fully-automated spectral unmixing pipeline that reduces error up to 9000-fold.

Want to get a tough sample, like lung, looking like this? Read more!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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I am genuinely impressed by large language models - they can absorb disparate components of text into some consolidated view, they can produce extremely good language and - with the right model - translate pretty well between languages and they are an excellent text based UI for humans to use. But..
October 26, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Happy #treg day everyone - congratulations to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, Shimon Sakaguchi and to all the immunologists who have contributed to this incredible field. See our collection: www.nature.com/collections/...
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries ...
www.nature.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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For our #flowcytometry peeps, would you like to have a single fix/perm protocol that is optimised for everything? One that preserves fluorophores while allowing simultaneous TF and cytokine staining? How about 100-fold cheaper?

You got it:
currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Let's be honest: this is so much better (and more memorable) than the real one could ever have been.

One for the ages.

#LaVuelta25
September 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Hypercapitalist hellhole or city of dreams? Behind the cliches, let me show you the real Dubai | Momtaza Mehri
Hypercapitalist hellhole or city of dreams? Behind the cliches, let me show you the real Dubai | Momtaza Mehri
Everyone’s got an opinion about the city. But few in the west know the multicultural, unusual Dubai that I’ve seen up close, says poet Momtaza Mehri
www.theguardian.com
August 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Monoclonal antibodies were invented at the institution I did my PhD - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.

A funny backstory to this is that Milstein tried to patent the finding, however, the MRC concluded that they were unable to "identify any immediate applications"..

Oopsie 🤦‍♂️
Nature: Monoclonal antibodies revolutionized biomedical science and health care

go.nature.com/3Jr4Q8R
August 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Wait, is that Bashar al-Assad???
@oddthisday.bsky.social

Roses are Red,
Amethyst is another word for quartz,
August 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Someone asked if I had plans for the fall.

It took me a moment to realize they meant "autumn," not the collapse of civilization.
August 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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A C. elegans model for a human disease
July 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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SNAP-tag is a widespread tool for labelling protein for bioimaging. An article published in Nature Chemical Biology presents SNAP-tag2 with increased labelling kinetics and brightness, which translates into a better performance in live-cell super-resolution imaging. go.nature.com/46fMIZd 🧪
July 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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I'm excited about a new @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social story that just went live! This one takes a #computational #immunology approach to understanding #tissueresident lymphocytes. The story highlights the extra value mathematical modelling can bring to biology. 🧵1/10

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Probabilistic migration events drive transient tissue residency of lymphocytes during homeostasis
Tissue-resident lymphocytes form a phenotypically and functionally distinct analog to the corresponding circulatory lymphocyte populations. Residential CD8 T cells, in particular, are identified as having prolonged residence in the tissues and key functions in recall responses at tissue-environmental interfaces, although the dwell time in individual tissues has yet to be resolved. Residential CD4 T cells, regulatory T cells, B cells, and NK cells have been demonstrated to share phenotypic properties with residential CD8 T cells, but the migratory kinetics are even more poorly defined. Here we used probabilistic modelling on a large parabiosis dataset, covering multiple time-points and tissues, to calculate migration kinetics and dwell times of multiple lymphocyte subsets across a diverse set of tissues. Markov chain modelling identified distinct cell type-specific and tissue-specific residency patterns. The liver and gut were prone to prolonged residency compared to other tissue types, and a hierarchy of residency was observed with CD8 T cells and NK cells demonstrating longer residency than CD4 conventional T cells and regulatory T cells, which in turn resided in tissues longer than B cells. With few exceptions, however, average residency was at least an order of magnitude shorter than the life-span of the mouse, indicating a more dynamic form of steady-state tissue residency than usually assumed. Together these data provide a comprehensive model of a pan-tissue shared program in lymphocyte tissue residence, as well as identifying cell type- and organ-specific modification of the migratory kinetics. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. Wellcome Trust, https://ror.org/029chgv08, 222442/Z/21/Z European Research Council, TissueTreg
www.biorxiv.org
July 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Mosquito-borne chikungunya disease sweeping Indian Ocean islands @meredithwadman.bsky.social @science.org
www.science.org/content/arti...
Mosquito-borne viral disease sweeping Indian Ocean islands
Safety issues with the only available vaccine complicates response to chikungunya
www.science.org
May 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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This post needs but a minor update.
May 6, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Listened to it today and absolutely loved the interview. I thought he also handled Alastair's somewhat poorly timed question about the loss of his son very well and even found a way to put a positive spin on it, which takes character. Really recommend a listen.
Former Head of MI6: Russia, China, and Trump (Sir Alex Younger)

@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social and Rory are joined by Sir Alex Younger to discuss:

🇺🇦What will happen to Ukraine if America withdraws all support?
🇷🇺Why Russia is conducting ceasefire negotiations badly
🇹🇼What if China invades Taiwan?
May 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Take a look at this feature with our faculty member Prof Sergio Quezada, discussing research into how Treg depletion in brain tumours enhances antitumour responses #ImmunoSky
Depletion of Tregs with a non-IL-2-blocking anti-CD25  enhanced antitumor responses in brain tumors and synergized with anti-PD-1 or a tumor antigen-targeted antibody bit.ly/44nab9T @uclnews.bsky.social  @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social #ImmunoSky
May 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Really valuable work and thanks so much for the explainer thread as well!
May 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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This mathematician wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the horse track.

A billion dollars later, he told us his story in 2018
The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code
Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the first time.
bloom.bg
May 3, 2025 at 3:54 AM