Seth Thomas Scanlon
Editor, Science Immunology
science.org/journal/sciimmunol
🇺🇸 + 🇳🇱 & based in 🇪🇺
Twitter: x.com/ImmunoEditor
- @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
- The January 2026 issue of #Science #Immunology is out now! Thanks to Rioka Hayama for another fantastic cover!!!
- 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
- #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!
- 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!!!
- 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!
- 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
- 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
- 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!
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Thanks, @natrevimmunol.nature.com, for highlighting this exciting recent paper in #Science #Immunology!
- This week in #Science #Immunology! 👇
- If the immune system is an army... ... would you rather rely on one “super warrior” — or on a diverse team of fighters, even if none of them is the single strongest? I’d go with the team. Why? Check out our new study, just published in Science Immunology: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- 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
- 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!
- 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!
- 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!
- 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!
- 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!
- 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
- Way to go, @cnfogg.bsky.social!
- 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!
- 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!
- 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
- The cover was illustrated by Rioka Hayama, who also designed #Science #Immunology 's wicked JAN 2025 cover! riokahayama.com
- 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...
- This week's cover, illustrated by the amazing Ashley Mastin, highlights work by @mmgomezheras.bsky.social & al.!
- 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!
- 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!
- 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...
- 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！
- 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
- 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!
- 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 !
- 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!
- 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!
- 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
- 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!
- One of this month's excellent investigator-penned other-journal #ResearchHighlights in #Science #Immunlogy:
- 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...
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- 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!
- This week in #Science #Immunology: Boisson-Dupuis, @casanovalab.bsky.social, & colleagues identify in 3 unrelated individuals w/ #tuberculosis a rare autosomal recessive complete deficiency in #LY9 linked to impaired #IFNg production by CCR4−CCR6+CXCR3+T-bet+RORγT+ TH1* cells (aka TH1/17 cells)!
- In #Science #Immunology, researchers at @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social studied #IFNs in human #fetal #thymus development. They found type I & II IFNs play distinct but critical roles in cortical & medullary thymic #EpithelialCell differentiation!
- ICYMI: earlier this month in #Science #Immunology, Ping Chih-Ho & Cheng Lung-Ku labs engineered #CAART cells bearing truncated #IFNg mutant bait to eliminate #Bcells expressing anti-IFN neutralizing #autoantibodies (nAIGAs) in both mouse models & in ex vivo cultures of PBMCs from patients w/ nAIGAs!
