Today we celebrate the revolution that marked the birth of Portuguese democracy. I was on the streets with my parents 50 years, not quite understanding what was going on. Let’s remember our gained freedoms and not take democracy for granted. #25deAbril theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Our latest preprint (not peer reviewed yet). Influenza's M2 proton channel is cleaved by caspases to remove the LIR motif. We solve co-crystal structure of M2 and LC3 to show it's not overlapping with cleavage site. Great collaboration with Avinash Shenoy. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I promised you I’d bring you to safety; I promised you I would get you a place to call home instead of the one they destroyed. I said I would get you to enroll in a new university instead of the one they bombed.

But I failed, habibti, I failed miserably; I wish I were instead

There’s a book to be written on how Sunak got to a place where his Rwanda policy with its unworkable, cruel, expensive, law breaking nationally embarrassing contradictions- Rwanda is safe but it’s a deterrent etc, etc- became his make or break policy in a country where public

Our latest work, which is a foray into influenza virus infection and caspases! This work is led by a very talented The Crick PhD student Carmen in Rupert's lab Rupert Beale

I really hope this bill is repealed within 12 months. It's cruel, stupid and a waste of public money.

Our latest preprint (not peer reviewed yet). Influenza's M2 proton channel is cleaved by caspases to remove the LIR motif. We solve co-crystal structure of M2 and LC3 to show it's not overlapping with cleavage site. Great collaboration with Avinash Shenoy. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Was great to see Feng Shao in London The Crick who in his seminar told us all about Gasdermins and his latest work on the breakdown of blood brain barrier. Max Gutierrez Rupert Beale Sharon Tooze

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Excellent view point Prof Katherine Sleeman views please! Assisted dying, moral distress, and conscientious objection - The Lancet thelancet.com/journals/lance…

For the first time in many years, Labour is playing politics on easy mode. The words 'fish' and 'barrel' come to mind.

Three years ago today this man delivered the 52ml of stem cells donated by then 12yo daughter which gave her little sister a new blood type and a second chance at life. If that's not a miracle I don't know what is. NHS Blood+Transplant The AAT Bob Phillips Leeds Children's Hospital #WardL32

Pizza. It’s ok.

Delighted to have hosted Uğur Șahin BioNTech SE for a Crick Lecture today The Crick. Wonderful overview of the power of mRNA vaccination in personalised cancer vaccination.

When I explain to my clinical colleagues what academic careers involve, the uncertainty and lack of job security, the constant pressure achieve, papers, grants, and the sometimes capricious nature of funding they are surprised but also repelled.