Kamal Nahas

@KLNahas

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Oxford, England

Born November 2

Joined January 2016

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Kamal Nahas
@KLNahas
Feb 25, 2025
Overjoyed to share that my PhD work is now in @eLife! I used correlative 3D imaging to provide new insights into how herpesviruses acquire their envelope (see 🧵below). Thanks to @AtomicVirology, @HenryBarrow (and others not on X)! elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…
Kamal Nahas
@KLNahas
Mar 15, 2024
Elated to announce that my PhD work is now up on bioRxiv! Thanks to all the coauthors who helped make this happen. Together, we explored virus assembly in a new light and spotted some intriguing things! @AtomicVirology @B24Light @HenryBarrow biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/8
Kamal Nahas
@KLNahas
Sep 19, 2025
Brain organoids are too simple to experience consciousness, but neuroscientists think they may be able to one day with tech advances. Is it unethical to work on a conscious organoid? Should regulations change? This and more in my @LiveScience piece 🧠
Tiny 'brains' grown in the lab could become conscious and feel pain — and we're not ready
From livescience.com
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Kamal Nahas
@KLNahas
May 15, 2025
Thrilled to share my first essay for Asimov Press as a columnist! Model animals like the lab mouse are used to minimize genetic differences. I explored the impact that mutations accumulating over time have on their genomes and what effect that has on reproducibility.
Asimov Press
@AsimovPress
May 15, 2025
Model Organisms Aren't Static🐁 Some vertebrate genomes mutate 40x faster than others. Each mouse pup carries ~15 new mutations per generation. These changes can add up, reshaping research results — and making experiments harder to replicate. Our latest column by @KLNahas🔻
Kamal Nahas
@KLNahas
Apr 29, 2025
Little research has been done on archaea—microbes inhabiting salt lakes, geysers & hydrothermal vents—as scientists assumed they keep to extreme habitats. But new evidence shows they thrive in the body. Read about what they do there in my latest feature.
Archaea Inhabit Our Microbiome, but What Are They Doing There? | The Scientist
From the-scientist.com
Kamal Nahas
@KLNahas
Apr 4, 2025
The story of how Edward Jenner invented vaccines has been told time and time again. But you may not know the story of the wounded horse that led French scientist Gaston Ramon to change vaccines forever. Read all about it in @AsimovPress
Asimov Press
@AsimovPress
Apr 4, 2025
Edward Jenner administered the world's first vaccine, for smallpox, in 1796. At the time, smallpox caused nearly 1/5 of ALL deaths in London. But it was the unsung scientists, Gaston Ramon and Alexander Glenny, who discovered adjuvants and made modern vaccines possible. Story🔻
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