This is nuts: Using armadillos as a model system, this group has shown that #leprosy bacteria are able to reprogram differentiated hepatocytes into stem-like cells. This ultimately results in further cell differentiation and proliferation (which ultimately benefits the bacteria by increasing the host resources available). The paper highlights the possibilities for liver regeneration in medicine.

But we're here to be awed by this new parasite manipulation strategy.

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(22)00379-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2666379122003792%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Mastodon #introduction

I am a #virologist / #PhDstudent at Colorado State University in Brian Geiss' lab!

I am currently interested in #bats 🦇 and how they avoid #disease in viral infection

Also working with different #flaviviruses ( #WNV #Zika #Dengue ) and helping @mmingroni with #SarsCoV2 helicase assays :) (aka he teaches me #proteins )

Figuring this platform out but excited to start!

#womeninscience
Women scientists maybe you thought were men

Maud Menten (Michaelis–Menten equation)
Yvonne Barr (Epstein-Barr virus)
Marilyn Kozak (Kozak consensus sequence)
Tsuneko Okazaki (Okazaki fragments - with her husband Reiji)
Helen Quinn (Peccei–Quinn theory)
Phyllis Nicolson (Crank–Nicolson method)
Hilde Mangold (Spemann-Mangold organizer)
Laura P. Bautz (Bautz–Morgan classification )
Katharine B. Blodgett (Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) film)
Martha Chase (Hershey–Chase experiments)