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Nicola Lorè
@nicolaivan.bsky.social
Biomedical researcher interested in host-pathogen interaction, microbes and lung Immunity.
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Repost in Bluesky. Our paper on #Dual spatial gene expression approach to dissect #host-#bacteria interaction in respiratory infections.
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Dual spatial host-bacterial gene expression in Mycobacterium abscessus respiratory infections
Communications Biology - Dual spatial gene expression assay in tissues with chronic lung infection by Mycobacterium abscessus paves the way for the simultaneous detection of host and bacterial...
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Super interesting paper on Novel #Genetic Loci for Nontuberculous #Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease. I'm glad to see that part of the validation was performed using our previous published data. Enjoy the paper! atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...
Novel Genetic Loci for Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease and Potential Protective Effect of Body Mass Index | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | Articles in Pres...
atsjournals.org
October 7, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Do you have a story about how antibiotics have made a difference in your lives or the lives of your loved ones?

Your story and photo could be up in lights at #PiccadillyCircus in London during #WAAW25.

Visit the Fleming Initiative to find out more.

➡️ www.fleminginitiative.org/thank-you-an...
September 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social Requirements for development of T-helper1 and T-follicular helper cells from a common precursor @unileiden.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Rejected…..rejected….
September 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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"For half an hour, I vented everything I had been holding in for months … my supervisor … then calmly offered a line I’ll never forget: 'You are here to learn to ride a bicycle, not to invent a bicycle.' That one sentence landed softly, but it cracked something open." https://scim.ag/4lt1Ru0
August 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Super interesting. Does it work for NTM?
July 31, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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I’m happy to share our latest work on tumour necrosis! During my time in the @megeblad.bsky.social lab, we found that tumour necrosis is not a passive phenomenon secondary to tumour growth, but an active phenomenon driven by neutrophils and NETs! Thread below: (1/13)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Neutrophils drive vascular occlusion, tumour necrosis and metastasis - Nature
Neutrophils actively induce tumour necrosis, driving vascular occlusion, pleomorphic necrosis and metastasis.
www.nature.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Super happy to have attended “The Nontuberculous #Mycobacteria Conference 2025” in Fort Collins! Great talks, outstanding science, and a really cool location. Huge thanks to the organizers. Always a pleasure to reconnect with friends and colleagues! #ntm
June 6, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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May 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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A strain of bacterium that often causes infections in hospital can break down plastic

https://go.nature.com/3SvsiTC
Microbe that infests hospitals can digest medical-grade plastic ― a first
Nature - The bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces an enzyme that breaks down biodegradable plastics.
go.nature.com
May 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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#WeekendRead #NoTimeToDie! Matt, Better &co show @ Science Immunology that efferocytosis of apoptotic neutrophils (not epithelial cells) by alveolar macrophages reprograms their metabolism, boosting glutaminolysis & decreasing ROS, thus favoring repair but facilitating secondary bacterial infections
Cell type–specific efferocytosis determines functional plasticity of alveolar macrophages
MPO activates an immunometabolic rheostat to restrict the functional plasticity of macrophages in favor of proresolving properties.
www.science.org
May 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Totally agree! “The term antibiotic—literally "opposing life", from the Greek roots ἀντι anti, "against" and βίος bios, "life"…..”
I hope to work in this field in the future!
The set up:

"This extensive use of antibiotics is based on the assumption that, other than toxicity issues when used in large doses, antibiotics disrupt biological processes in microbes and not the host."

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Antibiotics damage the colonic mucus barrier in a microbiota-independent manner
Antibiotics inhibit production of the protective mucus in the colon, thus predisposing to gut inflammation.
www.science.org
April 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Fahd Al Qureshah, @casanovalab.bsky.social, Qian Zhang et al. show that a common form of dominant human IFNAR1 deficiency impairs IFN-α and -ω but not IFN-β-dependent immunity. rupress.org/jem/article/...

📘In Genes & Immunity collection: rupress.org/jem/collecti...
#HKS2025
April 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Ready for the #telethon 2025 scientific convention! #Rimini #italy
March 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Excited to share our last study. Huge congrats to Sarah Monard, Arnaud Métais, @gclugo.bsky.social, @chrisverollet.bsky.social and all colleagues!
We have found a mysterious cell type inside TB lung lesions that seems neuron-like but isn't quite a nerve cell.
Let's dive in👇

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March 13, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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#interferon history is immunology history! the original cytokine :)
[January 16th, 1980] Scientists at Biogen have successfully produced human interferon, a natural virus fighter, in a laboratory using gene-splicing techniques, potentially making it a more affordable treatment for various viral infections and cancers.

#history #1980s
March 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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[January 16th, 1980] Scientists at Biogen have successfully produced human interferon, a natural virus fighter, in a laboratory using gene-splicing techniques, potentially making it a more affordable treatment for various viral infections and cancers.

#history #1980s
March 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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"If I had to name a person who has done more for the benefit of human health, with less recognition than anyone else, it would be Maurice Hilleman."—Richard Gallo
The man who developed 40 vaccines
Microbiologist Maurice Hilleman, PhD’44, and his feathered friends.
mag.uchicago.edu
February 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Hello @bsky.app 🦋! We’re the European Society of Mycobacteriology (ESM) on a mission to decode the mysteries of mycobacteria 🦠🔬. Stay tuned for exciting research, TB updates, and more. Let’s shape the future of global health together!
January 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Super cool work! Congrats to the authors.
Spatial bacterial transcriptomics is coming up!

“Highly multiplexed #spatial transcriptomics in #bacteria

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Highly multiplexed spatial transcriptomics in bacteria
Single-cell decisions made in complex environments underlie many bacterial phenomena. Image-based transcriptomics approaches offer an avenue to study such behaviors, yet these approaches have been hin...
www.science.org
January 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Great recent work from Sanika Vaidya and Knut Drescher Lab

Mammalian innate immunity recognizes bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan (PG) via TLR2

Turns out multiple bacteria also sense PG from their lysed compatriots as a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM