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Seth Thomas Scanlon

@immunoeditor.bsky.social
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Editor, Science Immunology science.org/journal/sciimmunol 🇺🇸 + 🇳🇱 & based in 🇪🇺 Twitter: x.com/ImmunoEditor

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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
My dream of being a … *gulp* … podcast guest has finally come true! Thanks, @boron110.bsky.social for the fun & freewheeling conversation!
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
#Science #Immunology turns 10 years old this month! We celebrate w/ a Special Issue on immune #memory! Check out our 3 outstanding Reviews by Maziar & Kaufmann; @sjturn.bsky.social, Thiele, & @niclag.bsky.social; & @maurogaya.bsky.social & @kimljacobson.bsky.social out this week! scim.ag/448rEkV
The July 2026 cover of Science Immunology features an illustration depicting an avatar of the immune system playing a memory game, in which previously encountered pathogens are remembered. The scene is framed by an unspooling chromosome, highlighting the critical role that epigenetic reprogramming plays in both innate and adaptive immune memory. (Credit: Ada Zejun Shen)
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
To celebrate @focisimmunology.bsky.social's annual meeting this week, #Science #Immunology has just released a free sample collection of recent papers with a focus on human & clinical immunology! The collection will be available online to read for the next few weeks! #FOCIS2026 bit.ly/SciImm_free
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
To mark World #Malaria Day, here are 2 recent Science #Immunology papers highlighting cutting-edge malaria research! Nideffer & al. (2025) scim.ag/4izhn63 Gao & al. (2025) scim.ag/4hN5vOY
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
So far in March, we've featured papers on: • how inflammatory #ILC2 migrate • engineering #CAR-TCells to restore #checkpoint sensitivity • capturing the earliest events of #TCell #development • how certain dietary antigens recognized by #Tregs help mediate #OralTolerance New content every week!
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Ghreetings from ghorgeous Ghent, where #Type2Immunity26 co-org by @vibtrainconf.bsky.social & #Science #Immunology is well under way! Check out our free collection of #allergy, #asthma, & #Type2Immunity papers in celebration! Collection: bit.ly/SciImm_free Conference: vibbio.tech/3UwmTNk
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Out now in #Science #Immunology! 👇
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
To celebrate next week's #Type2Immunity26 meeting in Ghent co-org by @vibtrainconf.bsky.social & #Science #Immunology, we've selected 8 recent #allergy, #asthma, & #Type2Immunity papers. Free collection available until end April 2026! Collection: bit.ly/SciImm_free Conference: vibbio.tech/3UwmTNk
General view of the Graslei (Ghent, Belgium) with the Leie river in the foreground. / Photograph by Michiel Hendryckx, distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Check it out! New content each week!!!
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
@science.org is looking for a new research editor to handle papers in the field of next-generation #medicine! Spread the word!!! bit.ly/4bWOJfn
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The January 2026 issue of #Science #Immunology is out now! Thanks to Rioka Hayama for another fantastic cover!!!
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Happy 2026!!! #Science #Immunology will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year! 🎉 We start with a look back at our Editors’ Choice of articles published in 2025! This free sample collection will be available online to read until the end of February 2026! bit.ly/SciImm_free #ScienceImmuno10gy
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
#Science #Immunology will be sponsoring a prize for the best poster presentation! The abstract deadline is fast approaching though, so don't delay! I hope to see many of you in marvelous Ghent this coming March!
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
The latest issue of #Science #Immunology is out now! This week: • evaluating large language models ( #LLMs ) / #AI as potential #systems #vaccinology tools • de novo #thymus #regeneration in the #axolotl! New content every week!!!
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This week in #Science #Immunology, Lambrecht & Hammad labs (@viblifesciences.bsky.social) use #Danish Nat'l Patient & Prescription Registries + mouse models to show that maternal #allergy & neonatal #RSV infection synergize via FcR-mediated allergen uptake to drive development of early life #asthma!
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Maternal allergy and neonatal RSV infection synergize via FcR-mediated allergen uptake to promote the development of asthma in early life
Maternal IgG transfer and neonatal infection synergize via Fc receptor pathways to promote allergic TH2 immunity.
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Nov issue of #Science #Immunology out now! This week: exTH17 cells sustain #IL17 –independent rheumatoid #arthritis; CXCR4+ mesodermal progenitors → rostral blood vessels, prodefinitive hematopoiesis, & postnatal tissue #macrophages; & how #Bcells acquire antigens from #parasites! scim.ag/4qQA6Q6
ONLINE COVERB Cell Help Measures Up Against Parasites. How B cells acquire antigens from large pathogens, including single-celled parasites, to support T cell–driven humoral responses is not well understood. Gao et al. used Ighg2A10 B cells specific for the surface Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein (PfCSP) to examine the interaction between B cells and Plasmodium berghei sporozoites engineered to express PfCSP. Ighg2A10 B cells could internalize and present cognate and bystander surface antigens, which resulted in both intramolecular and intermolecular CD4 T cell help. This help either suppressed or supported protective B cell responses depending on whether the CD4 T cells recognized cytosolic or surface sporozoite antigens. This month’s cover is a pseudocolored and digitally altered scanning electron microscopy (SEM) micrograph of Plasmodium sporozoites (pale purple) attached to Ighg2A10 B cells (bright pink) at one end.
Martin Oeggerli (Micronaut) 2025, with Xin Gao and Ian Cockburn, The John Curtin School of Medicine Research, Australian National University
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Now in #Science #Immunology: Hirahara lab reports activated #TH2 cells store LC-UFAs present in inflamed #lung within #lipid droplets. Subsequent catabolism via #microlipophagy induces ST2-hi effector & memory TH2 cell phenotypes, exacerbating #type2 #airway #inflammation! #asthma #immunometabolism
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Lipolysis-microlipophagy cascade regulated by adipose triglyceride lipase drives pathogenic adaptive type 2 immunity
Enzymatic and autophagic catabolism of lipid droplets after unsaturated fatty acid uptake induces pathogenic TH2 cells.
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Recently in #Science #Immunology: Kalinichenko, Huemer, @boztugk.bsky.social, & colleagues report than #sphingolipid #metabolism & protein #palmitoylation play critical roles in the killing of target cells by #cytotoxic #lymphocytes!
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Protein palmitoylation and sphingolipid metabolism control regulated exocytosis in cytotoxic lymphocytes
Protein palmitoylation and sphingolipid metabolism control lytic granule release in cytotoxic lymphocytes via membrane targeting of SNAP23.
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Last week in #Science #Immunology: two papers from Bill Schief, Facundo Batista, @profshanecrotty.bsky.social, & al. provide evidence that simultaneous #immunization with multiple #bnAb #immunogens could be a viable #HIV #vaccine strategy! Xie & al. scim.ag/3W7wfQl Sutton & al. scim.ag/4ofvKQa
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I'm so excited to be in stunning Stockholm for the 50th annual meeting of the #Scandinavian Society for #Immunology! swimm.se/ssi-2025/ @finnsocimm.bsky.social @swimm-immuno.bsky.social @yssi-immunology.bsky.social @ki.se
Main stage of the Aula Medica auditorium in Stockholm, Sweden. Three people are standing near the lectern on stage.  Text on the screen above the stage reads "50th annual meeting of the Scandinavian Society for Immunology" and features the SSI logo.
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
To celebrate this year’s #NobelPrize in #Medicine, awarded for the discovery of regulatory #TCells, we have selected 8 papers recently published in #Science #Immunology that highlight recent advances in #Treg biology! The collection will be online until the end of Oct 2025! bit.ly/SciImm_free
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Thanks, @natrevimmunol.nature.com, for highlighting this exciting recent paper in #Science #Immunology!
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
This week in #Science #Immunology! 👇
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The October issue of #Science #Immunology is out now! This week: how #TCR avidity shapes #CD8 #TCell responses to #mRNA #vaccines and the latest research on the immunology of #brain #tumors reviewed! New content added every week! scim.ag/46TGooP
Decoding the Brain Tumor Immune Microenvironment. Brain tumors originate either from within the brain or as metastases from other tissues and pose major clinical challenges because of their heterogenous and aggressive nature. Bunse et al. review the cellular and molecular determinants of brain tumor antigenicity and factors that contribute to the immunosuppressive brain tumor microenvironment (TME). This month’s cover illustration depicts distinct malignant glioma (upper left) and metastatic (bottom right) TMEs as collages of aperiodic penrose tiles overlaid on a stylized positron emission tomography (PET) scan of the brain.
Credit: Rioka Hayama
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
David Baker & colleagues develop an #IL21 mimic (21h10) that is more stable & shows x-reactivity against both human & murine #IL21R. 21h10 promotes potent antitumor responses in mice and in human #melanoma tumor explants, expanding low-affinity CD8 #TCells & #TH1 cells & reducing #Tregs in #tumors!
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Design of a potent interleukin-21 mimic for cancer immunotherapy
A de novo IL-21 mimic, 21h10, exhibits improved stability and potent antitumor activity in vivo compared with native IL-21.
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Now in #Science #Immunology: Deshpande, Klose, & al at Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin report that #ILC2 resident in #PNS communicate with neurons via #IL13 to maintain #nerve structure & pain thresholds. Mice lacking ILC2 or whose neurons are Il4ra-KO exhibit #hypersensitivity & #gait defects!
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Group 2 innate lymphoid cells regulate nociceptive and gait functions of the peripheral nervous system
ILC2-neuron cross-talk contributes to the maintenance of nerve structure and function of the peripheral nervous system.
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Out now in #Science #Immunology: Zhenghai Tang (U of Macau) & André Veillette (@ircm.bsky.social / @mcgill.ca / @umontreal.ca) review the latest research on inhibitory #ImmuneCheckpoints in #cancer #immunotherapy. Check it out!
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Inhibitory immune checkpoints in cancer immunotherapy
Inhibitory immune checkpoints for cancer immunotherapy are reviewed.
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Now in #Science #Immunology: @griffithslab.bsky.social report that when #CD8 #TCells encounter their targets, #nucleus localizes to the #ImmuneSynapse (IS) & facilitates delivery of newly synthesized cytokines to the IS. They find nuclear polarization represents key step in #CTL -mediated killing!
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Nuclear polarization to the immune synapse facilitates an early transcriptional burst
Cytotoxic T lymphocyte target recognition triggers rapid nuclear polarization to the immune synapse and an early transcriptional burst of cytokines.
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Now in #Science #Immunology, @drtesutherland.bsky.social & al report chitinase-like proteins (CLPs) make distinct contributions to airway pathology independent of #IL13- & #IL17 –mediated signaling in 🐀 #asthna model! CLPs orchestrate airway #ECM remodeling, & can be both protective & detrimental!
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Allergen-induced airway matrix remodeling in mice can be prevented or reversed by targeting chitinase-like proteins
Allergic airway matrix remodeling occurs independently of IL-13 and IL-17A and is driven instead by chitinase-like proteins.
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The September issue of #Science #Immunology is out! This week: METTL1 m⁷G RNA modification of NAD+ #metabolism → #macrophage -mediated #inflammation; proenkaphalin+ #Tregs restrain skin inflamm via control of #nociception; #RNA helicase DDX55 is regulator of naïve #TCell homeostasis scim.ag/3HKC5DP
Shining a Light on Naïve T Cell Homeostasis:

Homeostatic maintenance of naïve T cells is critical to maintain a large and diverse T cell pool. However, the underlying mechanisms regulating this process are not well understood. Wu et al. report that the RNA helicase DDX55 regulates the homeostatic maintenance of naïve T cells by preventing MYC from binding to enhancer- and promoter-like transposable elements (TEs) near T cell activation genes. In naïve T cells, DDX55 prevents the inappropriate activation of TEs and ensures their genomic stability by preventing R-loop formation. This month’s cover features a light bulb with its filament stylized as a DNA double helix. Its left half glows with an intact filament, symbolizing TEs as regulators, and its right side is dimmed and features a broken filament, representing TEs’ disruptive potential.
Credit: Bingyu Yang and Jianling Zhu/Sichuan University
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Way to go, @cnfogg.bsky.social!
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Heads up: @science.org is looking for a new research #editor based in the US or UK to handle papers in #InfectiousDiseases (e.g., #virology, #microbiology, #parasitology) & #microbiome research! This is an amazing opportunity, so don't delay! Applications are due 22 SEP!
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Heads up: @science.org 's immunology editor @sarahhross.bsky.social and I will both be attending the @iuis-online.bsky.social 19th International Congress next week in the ever enchanting city of #Vienna! We hope to see many of you there!
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IUIS 2025 ACCREDITED WITH 26 CME CREDITSThe 19th International Congress of Immunology (IUIS 2025), Vienna, Austria 17/08/2025 – 22/08/2025, has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council fo...
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
This week's @science.org #IMMUNOLOGY-themed SPECIAL ISSUE features Reviews by {Kassiotis & Stoye}, {Nahrendorf, Ginhoux, & Swirski}, {Sharma, Gibbons, & Saphire}, & {@jessmetcalf.bsky.social, @grahammunology.bsky.social, Yates, & Cummings} + an absolutely wild & wonderful cover! scim.ag/3UqRrA6
COVER This illustration depicts the changes in the immune system throughout an individual’s life span, from infancy to childhood, adulthood, and older age. The infant silhouette contains DNA, and the figures are enveloped by the nuclear and plasma membranes. These components reference the evolution of immunity over millennia, as viruses integrated into the genome and as life progressed from single-celled to multicellular organisms. See the special section beginning on page 586.

Illustration: Rioka Hayama
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The August issue of #Science #Immunology is out! This week: T peripheral helper cells expressing IGFL2 contribute to rheumatoid #arthritis; vagal TRPV1+ sensory #neurons protect against #influenza virus infection; & transfer of #Tregs alleviates #inflammaging in mice! wwwscience.org/toc/sciimmun...
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Out now in #Science #Immunology: Eric Vivier (@univ-amu.fr), Hui Peng, Zhigang Tian (USTC, Hefei), & colleagues report that #FetalLiver #InnateLymphoidCell ( #ILC ) progenitors in mice continue contributing to ILC #hematopoiesis into adulthood in a #BoneMarrow –independent manner!
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Innate lymphoid cells originate from fetal liver–derived tissue-resident progenitors
Fetal liver–derived ILC progenitors seed peripheral tissues and generate local ILCs independently of the bone marrow throughout life.
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
In #Science #Immunology, @tobiasplowman.bsky.social, Kassiotis, & al report canonical #IL13RA1 expression is negatively regulated by E2 #estrogen & also describe a primate-specific RTE-derived IL-13Rα1 isoform that antagonizes the canonical receptor & attenuates responsiveness to #IL4 and #IL13!
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Primate retroelement exonization and sexually dimorphic IL13RA1 transcription tune type 2 immune responses
Co-option of primate-specific retroelements creates an alternative IL-13Rα1 subunit that tunes type 2 immune responses.
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The July issue of #Science #Immunology is out now! This week: • Additional levels of #IL13RA1 gene regulation help explain susceptibility to #allergy! • Spi-B is a #checkpoint of #type2 immunity by restraining #TuftCell activation in gut! New content each week! www.science.org/toc/sciimmun...
Checkpoint on Type 2 Immunity. Tuft cells play key roles in the initiation and propagation of type 2 immune responses in the gut, but whether they have regulatory machinery for constraining these responses is not known. Wang et al. found that the transcription factor Spi-B prevents excessive type 2 immune responses against helminth infection and food allergens by limiting tuft cell activation and proliferation in the small intestine. Spi-B represses c-Kit signaling in tuft cells, which limits their production of the cytokine TSLP and the subsequent activation of T helper 2 (TH2) cells. This month’s cover image features a tuft cell (dark red) within the epithelial lining of the small intestine in which Spi-B has been inactivated, leading to increased production of TSLP by tuft cells and the cytokine interleukin-13 (IL-13) by TH2 cells (white).

Credit: A. Fisher/Science Immunology
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I am so delighted to be in #Japan for this year's RIKEN IMS–JSI International Symposium on #Immunology! 🇯🇵 温かく迎えてくれた主催者に感謝する!
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
To celebrate @focisimmunology.bsky.social 's annual meeting this week, #Science #Immunology has just released a new free sample collection of recent papers with a focus on human immunology! The collection will be available online to read until the end of July 2025! #FOCIS2025 bit.ly/SciImm_free
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Out now in #Science #Immunology: using a forward genetic of #ion #channels & #transporters, @stefanfeske.bsky.social & colleagues identified chloride nucleotide-sensitive channel 1A (CLNS1A) to be a critical regulator of #CD4 #TCell proliferation & differentiation!
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CLNS1A regulates genome stability and cell cycle progression to control CD4 T cell function and autoimmunity
CLNS1A promotes autoimmunity through epigenetic and transcriptional regulation of DNA repair and cell cycle progression in CD4 T cells.
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Recently in #Science #Immunology: Van der Veeken & al @ IMP @viennabiocenter.bsky.social generated 🐁 w auxin-inducible degradable #Foxp3! Tissue #Tregs minimally unaffected @ homeostasis but highly dependent on continuous Foxp3 activity in models of #autoimmunity, #viral #infection, & #cancer !
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Inducible protein degradation reveals inflammation-dependent function of the Treg cell lineage–defining transcription factor Foxp3
Acute Foxp3 protein depletion selectively affects Treg cells responding to type 1 inflammation.
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Recently in #Science #Immunology: researchers @ Weizmann & Tel Aviv Sourasky characterize synovial fluid immune compartment of #PsoriaticArthritis patients. #Immunoproteasome- & #MHCI -related genes ↑ in patients w refractory disease. Targeting immunoproteasome may be possible therapeutic approach!
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Dissection of the immune landscape in psoriatic arthritis defines immunoproteasome up-regulation in treatment resistance
Refractory PsA patients exhibit dysregulated immunoproteasome and MHC-I machinery, highlighting potential therapeutic targets.
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
New in #Science #Immunology: Researchers at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou report that #BloodCancers expressing PSGL-1 can prevent the #integrin signaling #macrophages need for #phagocytosis. Targeting PSGL-1 improved survival in mouse models of #leukemia, #lymphoma, & #MultipleMyeloma!
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PSGL-1 is a phagocytosis checkpoint that enables tumor escape from macrophage clearance
PSGL-1 acts as a phagocytosis checkpoint to promote tumor immune escape through impeding LFA-1 activation in macrophages.
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This month in #Science #Immunology, Shivangi Dave & André Ballesteros Tato at the #NIH review the noncanonical contributions of #TFollicularHelper ( #TFH ) cells cells to immune regulation beyond their traditional roles in #BCell help! science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.adr1052
Conventional and nonconventional functions of TFH cells: In addition to their conventional role as GC facilitators—providing survival and proliferation signals to GC B cells—TFH cells also perform noncanonical functions. They can support CD8+ T cell responses, produce effector-like cytokines that critically influence B cell fate decisions beyond GC maintenance, and exhibit TSCM properties that allow them to serve as reservoirs for pathogenic Teff cell subsets across various anatomical niches
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This fantastic work by @emilyaunins.bsky.social, Anthony Phan, @drewweissmanlab.bsky.social, @kingofpathogens.bsky.social, & colleagues is featured on this month's cover of #Science #Immunology!
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
One of this month's excellent investigator-penned other-journal #ResearchHighlights in #Science #Immunlogy:
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The June issue of #Science #Immunology has launched! This week: inducible #FoxP3 degradation in #Tregs; the immune landscape of human #psoriatic #arthritis; & #IL12 gives #mRNA #vaccines a boost! New content every week! Check it out! www.science.org/toc/sciimmun...
ONLINE COVERLNP mRNA Vaccines Get a Boost. Lipid nanoparticle (LNP) mRNA vaccines induce robust immune responses and provide protection against infectious diseases, but this immunity can be short-lived, necessitating frequent booster vaccinations. Aunins et al. investigated how adjuvanting LNP-mRNA vaccines with mRNA encoding the cytokine interleukin-12 (IL-12) influences CD8 T cell responses in mice. Il12 mRNA-LNPs (LNP–IL-12) enhanced antigen-specific CD8 T cell responses and CD8 T cell memory, providing greater protection against bacterial infection and in a mouse model of melanoma. Cytokine-adjuvanted mRNA-LNPs may help future vaccine platforms better tailor the magnitude and nature of the immune response. This month’s cover image features a stylized mRNA-LNP with various lipid (red, coral, and pink) and cholesterol molecules (maroon) encapsulating Il12 mRNA (yellow).

Credit: A. Mastin/Science Immunology
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
You can read (and subscribe to) Christie's *award-winning* Newsletter here: www.science.org/topic/articl... Check it out!
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Seth Thomas Scanlon @immunoeditor.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Now in #Science #Immunology: Philips, O'Shea, &al. made mice w human pathogenic #STAT1 activating mutation. Mice had #IFNg -dependent #autoimmunity, but their innatelike lymphocytes produced suboptimal IFNg during viral infection. Exogenous IFNg🚫virus-induced lethality, suggesting possible therapy!
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An activating Stat1 mutant disrupts normal STAT4 innate lymphocyte programs during viral infection
Stat1 gain-of-function mice fail to resolve inflammation in viral infection because of insufficient early STAT4–IFN-γ responses.
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