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Cillian McGorman
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Science Communicator & Immunologist 🥼
MSc Immunology 🧫 from Trinity College Dublin. | BSc Pharmaceutical Science 💊 | AS Biochemistry 🧪

| Currently work in CRISPR ✂️🧬 |

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Medsky🧪 #IDSky #Immunology Do you know How many Cells in our Immune system to control & defend against the daily onslaught of various dangerous pathogens ?
A comprehensive overview of the distribution of immune cells in the human body. @Panas
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
The immune system is a complex network of cells with critical functions in health and disease. However, a comprehensive census of the cells comprising the immune system is lacking. Here, we estimated the abundance of the primary immune cell types throughout all tissues in the human body. We conducted a literature survey and integrated data from multiplexed imaging and methylome-based deconvolution. We also considered cellular mass to determine the distribution of immune cells in terms of both number and total mass. Our results indicate that the immune system of a reference 73 kg man consists of 1.8 × 1012 cells (95% CI 1.5–2.3 × 1012), weighing 1.2 kg (95% CI 0.8–1.9). Lymphocytes constitute 40% of the total number of immune cells and 15% of the mass and are mainly located in the lymph nodes and spleen. Neutrophils account for similar proportions of both the number and total mass of immune cells, with most neutrophils residing in the bone marrow. Macrophages, present in most tissues, a
October 23, 2023 at 9:31 PM
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#medsky #IDsky #publichealth That
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Fever.
Sore throat.
Headache.
Runny nose.
Ear pain.
Chest pain from coughing.
& tiredness
esp children Instead of chest cold symptoms, younger than 5 years old may have:
Diarrhea
Sneezing
Sore throat
Stuffy or runny nose
Vomiting
Watery eyes
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tmprowell.bsky.social Tatiana Prowell, MD @tmprowell.bsky.social · Nov 16
Wondering why so many people have mycoplasma (aka walking pneumonia) lately? Here’s a clue.

Just published: after propensity matching, those w/ prior #COVID19 infection were about 3x more likely to get mycoplasma than those without #COVID: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#MedTwitter #MedSky
Lancet
https://thelancet.com/journals/lanwp…
November 16, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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CRISPR just gave us sweeter tomatoes 🍅! Editing two genes boosted sugar by 30%, without shrinking the fruit or yield. Max Kozlov does a great job breaking down this exciting step toward tastier, more sustainable crops. Great Quick Read! 👏 www.nature.com/articles/d41... #Science
CRISPR builds a big tomato that’s actually sweet
Deleting just two genes that control sugar production makes a more succulent fruit.
www.nature.com
November 16, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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Hi new followers!
I'm Joanna, a British Pole based in Oxford. I split my time between
🦊 ecology (at Oxford Uni and Brunel Uni of London)
🧪 freelance science communication (anything from writing books to doing stand-up comedy).

Talk to me about fun zoology papers, teaching, poo and dead things.
Joanna reading her book to a dead bear in Oxford's Natural History Museum Joanna looking at half a roe deer, killed by a lynx in Beskid Żywiecki mountains.
November 10, 2024 at 10:06 AM
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Finally, a place where news can spread positively and actually be seen—without the chaos and noise that’s taken over elsewhere. It’s refreshing to see platforms focused on uplifting, not dividing. Hi BlueSky 👋🏽

#STEM #ScienceCommunication #ResearchMatters #Science
November 16, 2024 at 6:42 PM