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Michal Tal, PhD

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Michal Tal, PhD

@ImmunoFever

Immunoengineer @MITdeptofBE finding new ways to MEASURE and interpret #inflammation #SexDifferences #ChronicLyme #LongCOVID. Mom of 2. prev/ @Yale, @Stanford.

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Michal Tal, PhD
@ImmunoFever
Mar 6, 2025
Finally online - sharing our findings that #Lyme disease bacteria can live in female reproductive organs for over a year and increase risk for gynecological disease!!! We found this increased risk in mice and humans! 😱 (thread below) medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
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Michal Tal, PhD
@ImmunoFever
Dec 3, 2023
There is a human tissue that builds itself up and breaks itself down every ~28 days using non-scarring wound healing and instead of studying that and learning everything we can about it we think it's gross and look for other less relevant models to understand wound healing.
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Michal Tal, PhD
@ImmunoFever
Jan 31, 2025
All of the websites and databases that were built with YOUR tax dollars that are getting purged and dumped right now contained the product of many years of good research and many many millions of dollars that are simply being dumped down the drain.
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Michal Tal, PhD
@ImmunoFever
Dec 3, 2023
Replying to @ImmunoFever
Menstrual taboos have not only damaged women's health over these years, but they've also held back immunology research and our understanding of wound healing, inflammation, and repair. That's why we need a lot more of the revolution underway at MIT's CGR.
Home • The MIT Center for Gynepathology Research
From cgr.mit.edu
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Michal Tal, PhD
@ImmunoFever
Mar 15, 2022
This whole thread has left me utterly speechless. If we don't have money to protect people, why in the world are we encouraging them to let their guard down?
NPR Politics
@nprpolitics
Mar 15, 2022
Replying to @nprpolitics
The government cannot buy more oral antiviral treatments like Paxlovid beyond the 20 million treatments already secured, and needs to scale back planned purchases of preventative treatments for immunocompromised people, the White House said.
Michal Tal, PhD
@ImmunoFever
May 15, 2021
I'm fully vaccinated and I'm going to keep right on masking. My children are still too young to get vaccinated and I have immunocompromised people in my family I'm trying to keep safe. I would appreciate if you continue masking around me as well.
Michal Tal, PhD
@ImmunoFever
Feb 9, 2025
I'm not sure y'all understand how fiercely competitive NIH grants are. It took me years of work and multiple tries to get this. The part I personally feel the most cheated about, halfway into yr 2 of a 5 yr grant, is that 5 years ago this would have made my career. But now...?
Michal Tal, PhD
@ImmunoFever
Jun 28, 2023
🎉🎉OMG🎉🎉 I just got my very first RO1, to develop a predictive diagnostic for #Lyme that would allow us to distinguish between disease trajectories and I am SO excited about what my group together with the Lauffenburger lab are going to be able to discover with this support!!!
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Michal Tal, PhD
@ImmunoFever
Dec 26, 2021
To every single person out there jumping on the I'm not worried about getting "mild COVID" train, I'm starting to lose count of how many of these I've seen. If you pass that mild COVID to a pregnant or immunocompromised person... It can be someone's death sentence.
💜Greenley
@GreenleyMaskVax
Dec 26, 2021
Today and last night we had 4 fetal demise. IUFD. MD believes cause of three due to complications from acquiring covid. Same MD said they haven’t seen as many in their 25yr career. I’m feeling helpless today.
Michal Tal, PhD
@ImmunoFever
Dec 3, 2023
Replying to @suBu_at_work and @zegirish
Nope. But men have been driving the allocation of research funds and determining research directions for a very long time. Enough. It's time for real menstrual science.
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Michal Tal, PhD
@ImmunoFever
Dec 3, 2023
I was out of characters. That's why I used the ~ approximately sign because I tried to write out on average but couldn't spare the space
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Michal Tal, PhD
@ImmunoFever
Jan 12, 2022
With antivirals not yet widely available and no one under 5 vaccinated, I think that it is unconscionable to resign ourselves to “letting it rip”. We need as many mitigation measures in place as possible for a virus that can cause neurological harm, disability, or even death.
Michal Tal, PhD
@ImmunoFever
Dec 3, 2023
Replying to @legittreehugger and @angryhacademic
You know it
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Michal Tal, PhD
@ImmunoFever
May 11, 2024
One of the craziest things I learned last week at #AAI2024 was that we have more free-floating extracellular mitochondria in our blood than white blood cells. This was not in any textbook that I ever read! sci.news/biology/cell-f… And the original paper: faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/fj…
Scientists Find Cell-Free Mitochondria in Human Blood | Sci.News
From sci.news
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Michal Tal, PhD
@ImmunoFever
Jul 24, 2020
I have an immunology joke but you won't have the tolerance for it.
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