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David Braun is responsible for creating, editing, promoting and managing editorial, sponsored content, and projects and products primarily related to National Geographic Mission Programs content. He is also liaison to NGS Mission Programs and outside groups — government agencies, nonprofits and for-profit sponsors — about potential collaborations. He manages, edits and builds quality and reach of the news blogging network, special editorial projects, and homepage across digital and print teams.

David Braun’s Journalist Portfolio

Ivory Poaching Threatens 'Elephant Memory'

Ivory Poaching Threatens 'Elephant Memory'

The large number of mature and experienced African elephants being killed illegally for their ivory is exposi…

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Lion Numbers Plunge as African Wilderness Succumbs to Human Pressure

Lion Numbers Plunge as African Wilderness Succumbs to Human Pressure

Only 32,000 Lions Remain out of 100,000 Roaming Africa in the 1960s The king of the African savannah is in se…

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Galapagos Expedition Journal: Face to Face with Giant Tortoises

Galapagos Expedition Journal: Face to Face with Giant Tortoises

I report on our visit to the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz Island, where a decades-long breed…

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Bill Clinton Announces AIDS, Malaria Initiatives

Bill Clinton Announces AIDS, Malaria Initiatives

Hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by AIDS and malaria will be averted with better treatment programs, fo…

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Thousands of Inca Mummies Raised From Their Graves

Thousands of Inca Mummies Raised From Their Graves

Thousands of Inca mummies-many with hair, skin, and eyes intact-have been rescued from beneath the streets of…

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Single-nucleus multimodal spatial transcriptomics reveals spatial colocalization of neoantigen-expressing tumor cells and cognate T cells

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By Adi Nagler, Amit Sud, Jack Ghannam, Lucas Pomerance, Camila Robles-Oteiza, Alexander B. Afeyan, Jackson A. Weir, Andrew Russell, Wesley Lu, McKayla Van Orden, Giovanni J. Marrero, Qiyu Gong, vipin kumar, Kun Huang, Chloe R. Tu, Emma Lin, Bohoon Shim, Gabriel De Oliveira, MacLean Sellars, Charles H. Yoon, David A Reardon, Toni K. Choueiri, Lars R. Olsen, Sabina Signoretti, Patrick A. Ott, David Braun, Giacomo Oliveira, Shuqiang Li, Kenneth J. Livak, Nir Hacohen, fei chen, Catherine J. Wu, Andrea Sonnenholzner
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Abstract Improved methods to identify therapeutically relevant tumor neoantigens and their cognate T cells would aid the development of precision medicines for cancer. Here, we developed Slide-GoTags, a droplet-based single-nucleus spatial transcriptomics approach that characterizes neoantigen-specific immunity by integrating targeted transcript genotyping and T cell receptor (TCR) sequencing with single-nucleus RNA sequencing from the same slice of frozen tissue.
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Tertiary lymphoid structures harbour stem-like tumour-specific T cells

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By Alexander B. Afeyan, Adi Nagler, Chloe R. Tu, Gabriel De Oliveira, Berkay Simsek, Maxwell D. Seager, Haley E. Sax, Emma Lin, Amit Sud, Mehdi Borji, Cleo Forman, Sophia Liu, Patrick A. Ott, Toni K. Choueiri, Jennifer G. Abelin, Richard Burack, Shuqiang Li, Kenneth J. Livak, Svitlana Tyekucheva, Derin B. Keskin, fei chen, Jeremy Simon, Sabina Signoretti, Giacomo Oliveira, David Braun, Catherine J. Wu, Nourhan El Ahmar
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Abstract Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs) are associated with improved responses to immune checkpoint blockade across solid tumours1,2, but how they impact the phenotypic properties of tumour-specific T cells remains unclear. Here we found, across 24 treatment-naive renal cell carcinoma (RCC) tumours, that TLS-containing tumours are more heavily infiltrated by exhausted CD8+ T cells and have a reduced terminal exhaustion transcriptional program compared with TLS− tumours.
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Prediction of immunotherapy response using live tumor fragments from routine clinical biopsies

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By David Braun, Nicholas Dana, Hilary R. Hernan
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N.D., H.R.H., S.S., C.M.S., C.J., L.V., E.vE., J.Z., E.W., A.S., D.S., J.R., K.R., P.M., V.J., C.C., S.C., L.C.F.H., C.S., H.R., P.P., and H.J.G. are employees of Elephas Biosciences and hold equity, stock options, or both in the company. S.C. is an inventor on U.S. Patent Application Nos. 12467918B1, and 11366101, which cover technology related to the elive platform. L.C.F.H. is an inventor on U.S. Patent Application No. 11366101. A.F. holds equity in Elephas Biosciences.
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