An incredible experience beyond imagining to get to sign the great Nobel book, alongside many of my all-time scientific heroes: Einstein, Curie, Bohr, Planck, Schrodinger, Crick, Feynman…
Today I’m joining 30+ colleagues in taking an unusual step: calling for a halt to a line of research I was excited about, the long-term effort to build “mirror life”.
We’re sharing our findings in a @ScienceMagazine paper:
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Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. @DjenetBousbaine led the charge... @Nature 1/55
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