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Josh Waterfall

@joshwaterfall.bsky.social
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Inserm researcher and group leader at Institut Curie. Linking cancer immunity, immunotherapy, transcription, and AI/ML. institut-curie.org/team/waterfall

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Caetano Reis e Sousa @reisesousalab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Hope you enjoy this short piece, which came out yesterday. Some thoughts I’ve been musing on for a while about why adaptive immunity evolved. Read it for free at rdcu.be/fAO5P
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Why adaptive immunity?
Nature Reviews Immunology - Adaptive immunity is indispensable to vertebrates, yet most living organisms defend themselves perfectly well without it. Here, I ask why somatically diversified antigen...
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bioRxiv Immunology @biorxiv-immuno.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Unbiased identification of responding T cell clones from longitudinal repertoire sequencing with CloneSearch www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Q-Immuno lab at UCL @qimmuno.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
One month until London Q-Immuno Day 2026! 🧬💻 Join us on May 8th for interdisciplinary discussions at the intersection of theory, computation and immunology. More details and free registration at: qimmuno.com/ldnday/
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I agree with Secretary Noem that this was an act of domestic terrorism. However, I disagree about who the terrorist is.
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Why the fuck is every Dem leader leading with “Maduro sucks…but…” Fuck you. Just say this is unconstitutional and I’m starting the impeachment process.
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Grünewald Lab @grunewaldlab.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Join the advanced international course on "Innovative approaches for pediatric cancer immunotherapy" at the @institutcurie.bsky.social January 28th - 30th , 2026 training.institut-curie.org/courses/inno...
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Innovative approaches for pediatric cancer immunotherapy | Institut Curie Advanced Training
This course aims to synthesize the state-of-the-art and the therapeutic perspectives related to harnessing children's immune system to target pediatric tumors. Encompassing topics from biological char...
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Institut Curie @institutcurie.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
📣 Registration for the next international course at @institutcurie.bsky.social on the innovative approaches for pediatric cancer immunotherapy is now open, until november 28th, 2025. 🗓️ January 28 - 30, 2026 ▶️ More info: training.institut-curie.org/courses/inno...
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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The Metagraph paper is out in Nature; it showed up in my feeds today! Congratulations to Mikhail Karasikov, @gxxxr.bsky.social, @akkah21.bsky.social and all of the other authors (whom I'd love to follow on Bluesky if I can find you ;P) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Efficient and accurate search in petabase-scale sequence repositories - Nature
MetaGraph enables scalable indexing of large sets of DNA, RNA or protein sequences using annotated de Bruijn graphs.
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Nicolas Manel Lab @manellab.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🔥 Mark the date! 🗓️ Millésime 2026 of the @embo.org Workshop on Pathogen Immunity and Signaling has arrived. Terrific roster of speakers, many spots for talks, spectacular venue in Leiden. Submit your abstract. Join us on 8 – 11 June 2026. meetings.embo.org/event/26-pat...
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Pathogen Immunity and Signalling
Viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens pose a serious threat to human health, requiring a coordinated response from the innate and adaptive immune systems. Our immune system relies on pathogen recept…
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Jean Léon Maître @maitrejl.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Slowly and tediously, even the rich and powerful can be taken down in functional democracies. This is the third conviction for Sarkozy (and his acolytes). This should encourage other democracies in difficult situations to keep hoping for justice to prevail. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Former French president Sarkozy guilty of criminal conspiracy in Libyan campaign financing trial – Europe live
Nicolas Sarkozy has been found guilty of conspiracy, but innocent of other charges, in case surrounding millions of euros in illegal campaign funding from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi
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bioRxiv Genomics @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
EWS::WT1 Isoform-Dependent Regulation of Neogenes in Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumors www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award. 3/4
A word cloud with dominant words "equity", "disparity", "diverse", and similar words.
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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Are you an AI expert who wants to stay in academia and change the world by understanding the most complex things we know - living organisms? Want to lead your own group, based in Heidelberg DE, working language English? @embl.org is hiring in AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
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Group Leader – AI in Biology
Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in AI for Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a visionary scientist to establish their own independent research group bridging innovations in machine...
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Dana-Farber News @danafarbernews.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Congratulations to @danafarber.bsky.social’s Cathy Wu, MD, who was selected by Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer as the recipient of the 2026 Richard V. Smalley Memorial Award and Lectureship. ➡️ bit.ly/4octIB3
Cathy Wu, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Sign the petition to call for the removal of RFK, Jr. www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm...
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Sign the IMPEACH RFK Citizens' Petition to Congress — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Join with us to sign our Citizens' Petition to the US Congress to choose the people over Trump and Impeach RFK Jr Now!
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Bardin Lab @bardinlab.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The deadline is approaching for this fantastic course! Apply now! Free to attend!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Twice in one day I find myself without words...
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Josh Waterfall @joshwaterfall.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
So glad to have played a small part in this story. Great work @manellab.bsky.social !
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Josh Waterfall @joshwaterfall.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
PhD opportunity in a great lab at a great institute !
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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Postdoctoral position in Computational Biology open ! Our Lab is trying to understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in establishing intestinal immune homeostasis and how a breakdown of these mechanisms may lead to diseases More info 👇 : lnkd.in/dQZq55nv lnkd.in/d6sbw59P
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Josh Waterfall @joshwaterfall.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Reminder to join us June 5/6 in Paris if you're interested in pediatric immunity and cancer development ! @institutcurie.bsky.social @gustaveroussy.fr @hopitalnecker.bsky.social @institutimagine.bsky.social
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Cedric Feschotte @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Cornell’s new homepage: RESEARCH MATTERS 🔬🔭🧪⚗️🧬💪😍 www.cornell.edu
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yEFIS @yefis-immunology.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Study Immunology in Paris! 📚 Join this International Master’s Program focused on Inflammation & Inflammatory Diseases 🌍 Open to international students – 🏠 Housing & 🇫🇷 French lessons included! ✨ Don’t miss out! #Immunology #StudyInParis #yEFIS @efis-immunology.bsky.social
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Institut Curie @institutcurie.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🔴 Dans un entretien à @lexpress.bsky.social, Yasmine Belkaid DG @pasteur.fr, Bana Jabri DG @institutimagine.bsky.social et Alain Puisieux, Pdt du Directoire de l’Institut Curie, lancent un appel pour défendre la #science face aux menaces qui pèsent sur elle. ➡️ www.lexpress.fr/sciences-san...
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Michael Stambolis @mstambolis.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
For academics in the US: the University of Toulouse has quickly put together a program to help bring scholars to France whose work is under attack by the Trump administration. The priorities area are: humanities, climate sciences, health, and space research. en.univ-toulouse.fr/news/toulous...
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Toulouse Welcomes U.S. Researchers Facing Unprecedented Challenges | Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse
In response to the targeted and drastic budget cuts threatening scientific research in the United States, the Toulouse academic community is launching an initiative to host researchers whose work is a...
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Q-Immuno lab at UCL @qimmuno.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Two days to go until the 3rd LDN Q-Immuno Day at UCL! We are looking forward to welcome you on Thursday for an incredible line-up of speakers. Full schedule now available here: qimmuno.com/ldnday/
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LDNQImmuno · April 10th
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Darragh Duffy @darraghduffy.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
13 chair positions open @inserm.fr to lead a junior research group in France covering #neuroscience, #immunology, #bioinformatics, #bioengineering, #biotherapy, #public health pro.inserm.fr/rubriques/co... 🧪🔬
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hmenager.bsky.social @hmenager.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
📢 permanent research engineer position as leader of the Hub Algorithmics & AI pole at the Institut Pasteur. Come and join us! More details on research.pasteur.fr/en/job/perma...
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Permanent research engineer position as Head of Hub Algorithmics & AI pole - Research
The Hub of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics provides analytical support to research units and platforms at the Institut Pasteur. The Hub is committed to this mission through:  As head of the Algorithm...
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Josh Waterfall @joshwaterfall.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Remember to join us June 5,6 for the first #ParisKidsCancer symposium on #pediatric #immunity and #childhoodcancer Registration open now ! institut-curie.org/symposium-pa...
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Symposium Paris Kids Cancer 2025 - Institut Curie
Find Symposium Paris Kids Cancer 2025. The Institut Curie is the leading center for research and the fight against cancer in France.
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Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 07/03/2025
DOJ, HHS, ED, and GSA Announce Initial Cancellation of Grants and Contracts to Columbia University Worth $400 Million (government press release) www.gsa.gov/about-us/new...
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DOJ, HHS, ED, and GSA Announce Initial Cancellation of Grants and Contracts to Columbia University Worth $400 Million
Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Education (ED), and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced that through their coordinated efforts they would i...
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Josh Waterfall @joshwaterfall.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Paris #standupforscience @standupforscifr.bsky.social #solidarity
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Stand Up For Science France @standupforscifr.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
L'Europe a "un rôle à jouer pour proposer une vision alternative, fondée sur le savoir et les connaissances, pour proposer un avenir émancipateur" www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
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La recherche "dans un moment orwellien" aux Etats-Unis, regrettent plusieurs scientifiques français
Les scientifiques français Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Olivier Berné et Alain Fisher évoquent le contexte de la recherche américaine, dont les budgets sont en train d'être rabotés et les sujets de travai...
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Josh Waterfall @joshwaterfall.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Interested in the relationship between the developing immune system and pediatric cancer ? Come join us for the first Paris Kids Cancer symposium June 5/6 institut-curie.org/symposium-pa... @institutcurie.bsky.social @aphp.bsky.social @gustaveroussy.fr @institutimagine.bsky.social
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Symposium Paris Kids Cancer 2025 - Institut Curie
Find Symposium Paris Kids Cancer 2025. The Institut Curie is the leading center for research and the fight against cancer in France.
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Bardin Lab @bardinlab.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Stand Up for Science France protest this Friday March 7. Numerous actions throughout France including a protest march in Paris starting at Jussieu 13h30 by @sufs-paris-rp.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social 👉 standupforscience.fr #StandUpForScience #StandUpForScienceFrance
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Stand Up For Science France | Le 7 mars, nous défendons les sciences – parce que les sciences sont un bien commun.
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Jamie Heather @jamieheather.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Dear TCR researchers of #immunosky, you may be interested to know that our tool Stitchr - for the automated production of full-length T cell receptor sequences - has just had a nice little update: jamieheather.github.io/stitchr/
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stitchr — stitchr documentation
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
A truly depressing article in #Nature listing of all the damage done to #science in the US by the Trump administration in just one month 💔 for so many friends and colleagues there #solidarityforscience 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
List of Science impacts: one month of Trump 2.0

20 January: Trump’s Day 1 executive orders
21 January: NIH activities suspended
27 January: Freeze on all federal grants
31 January: CDC databases disappear and papers are censored
2 February: NSF unfreezes funds, scrutinizes grants
6 February: Global health efforts imperiled
7 February: Cuts to NIH research overhead funding announced 
14 February: Layoffs at US science agencies begin
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Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
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Were you fired by President Trump? | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n
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Star dust @reinhart-kurt.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
"Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity."
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
American science is under attack Opinion piece by Dr Harold Varmus, Nobel Prize winner, former director of the #NIH and the #NCI 🧪 “Perhaps what’s most disheartening is what feels like the absence of widespread opposition to this unraveling” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
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Opinion | American Science is Under Attack (Gift Article)
The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/02/2025
In addition to the good news THIS IS A SIGN THAT PRESSURE WORKS Don’t give in to fascists when you still have the option of resisting 🧪
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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The only possible result to this will be massive layoffs across the US higher education system
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Jen @libroloverjen.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
People can visit this site to see the impact of NIH grant funding in their state. www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 28/01/2025
American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12
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Nicolas Robine 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇸 @nicorobine.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
[fr] m.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5w...
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Bérurier Noir - La Jeunesse Emmerde le Front National (Live)
YouTube video by SHARP
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Yago Arribas @yarribas.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Not easy to describe the emotions of seeing our work published in @cellpress.bsky.social ! We explored how novel isoforms emerge during evolution through the exonization of Transposable Elements. Exonized TEs modify the functions and structures of host proteins. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Transposable element exonization generates a reservoir of evolving and functional protein isoforms
Transposable element exonization by unannotated splicing events produces stable protein isoforms with acquired functions that are subject to evolutionary selection.
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Pablo Navarro @pablonavarrolab.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
🔥🔥🔥 Join us @pasteur.fr New call for young PIs ! 🔥🔥🔥 research.pasteur.fr/fr/call/call...
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Call for applications 2025 – Creation of new research groups at the Institut Pasteur | Research - Institut Pasteur
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Shalin H. Naik @shalinhnaik.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
📢 World-leading Immunologists. The Nossal Endowed Chair of Immunology has just been announced @wehi-research.bsky.social. This is your chance to move (or return) to Australia to do ground-breaking research and join a thriving environment for discovery and translation.
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WEHI - The Sir Gustav Nossal Professor of Immunology - Alumni Global
The Professor will lead transformative research into the complexities of the immune system, building on Sir Gustav Nossal’s pioneering work. By fostering a culture of scientific excellence and innovat...
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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Professorship of Infection / Immunity up for grabs in @cambridgeuni.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49381/
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Associate Professor/Professor of Infection and/or Immunity - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Associate Professor/Professor of Infection and/or Immunity in the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge.
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