Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
Targeting FGF21 and GLP-1 pathways in NASH. My latest Clinical Pipeline column for Nature Medicine is online.
#drugdiscovery #drugdevelopment #metabolism #LiverDisease #FattyLiver #SciComm
A light sentence, but better than nothing.
"Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, who was once hailed as a pioneer of stem cell medicine, was found guilty of gross assault against three of his patients today and sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison by an appeals court in Stockholm."
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The depths to which Didier Raoult dived early on:
"the Marseille facility had conducted unauthorized clinical trials on the diagnosis of tuberculosis (Mycobac trial). Some of the patients enrolled in this trial received in-house treatment, a protocol that did not comply with international recommendations for the treatment of this disease."
https://www.lepoint.fr/sante/didier-raoult-30-years-of-unregulated-experiments-on-human-22-06-2023-2525726_40.php
George and the FT might be hearing from The Onion's legal team soon.
https://www.ft.com/content/05808970-09a0-4f86-af23-4f05db627742
'Here, we aimed to understand how closely related strains with overlapping metabolic capacities can co-bloom (i.e., both strains reaching high densities) in the mammalian gut and how this promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance plasmids.'
#HostPathogen #microbiology #mucosalimmunology
https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(23)00222-6
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Damaged neurons repair #axons, but it wasn't clear whether the axons of damaged ciliated #neurons in #insects could also recover. Melissa Rolls & colleagues have discovered that insect ciliated neurons do recover, even if the axon is severed close to the cell body, and they use the same mechanism for recovery as conventional neurons
#neuroethology #zoology #entomology #biology
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/12/jeb246176/318020
To read the full research go to https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/12/jeb245717/318059
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On this day in 1903: George MacDonald born, worked out transmission of vector-born diseases like malaria #ThisDayInBiotech
Thiago Carvalho
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Targeting FGF21 & GLP-1 pathways in NASH. My latest Clinical Pipeline column for Nature Medicine is online.
#drugdiscovery #drugdevelopment #metabolism #LiverDisease #fattyliver
Thiago Carvalho
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Academic hyperbole:
When did "cutting edge" become "bleeding edge”? Why is “state-of-the-art” no longer sufficient so that we must now be working “beyond state-of-the-art”. Don’t forget that we can no longer be "world leading”, we must be "world beating”. Makes me wonder what's next?
On finding a home for your blog/newsletter:
"My reasons for wanting out are explained here. The bottom line, though, is that I just wasn’t comfortable on a platform that’s a major leagues money-maker for the misinformation-hate complex. And I didn’t want to wait for the likely-inevitable enshittification development or event that made moving urgent. Migrating slowly, while my newsletter and its footprint are still small, had to be easier."
"In fact, teleosts show a tremendous variety of adaptive behaviors similar to birds and mammals, however, the neural basis mediating these behaviors remains elusive. We performed a systematic comparative survey of the goldfish telencephalon; the seat of plastic behavior, learning and memory in vertebrates."
#Preprint #Evolution #neuroscience
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.19.545605v1?med=mas
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Poverty kills. Yet, we remain silent about it's deadly effects. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/22/us-leading-cause-death-poverty-crisis
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RT @: (BioRxiv All) Target-decoy false discovery rate estimation using Crema (RSS) #BioRxiv #MassSpecRSS
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Research Technician, Mouse Colony - Cheadle Lab
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/research-technician-mouse-colony-cheadle-lab/?feed_id=48229
#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Cold Spring Harbor #UnitedStatesUS #ResearchTechnician
https://jobrxiv.org/job/research-technician-mouse-colony-cheadle-lab/?feed_id=48229
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There's more to gasdermin than just proptosis.
'Our study supports that differential cleavage of GSDMD can be understood as a regulatory hub controlling immunity versus tolerance in the small intestine.'
#Immunology #mucosalimmunology
'As the hall quietened, she began to speak, calmly and without notes, about the animating purpose of her professional life. “I’m going to tell you a mystery story,” she said. “And hopefully, you’ll help me to solve it along the way.”
The mystery is this. Since the late 1930s, sperm counts around the world appear to have dropped significantly.'
https://www.ft.com/content/f14ab282-1dd3-46bf-be02-a59aff3a90ed
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"But there are a number of hurdles standing in the way of making the most of the new vaccines. Those hurdles — from a lack of awareness about RSV to safety concerns to issues around who will administer these vaccines — are lower than those that could inhibit use of emerging new products designed to protect young infants from RSV. Still, there are hindrances ahead and they aren’t insignificant."
#RSV #vaccines #publichealth
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“There were really compelling videos shown of kids running upstairs, kids swimming, jumping off a platform into water. You would not be a human being if you did not react in an excited way to those . . . But the primary endpoint in the clinical trial was not met.”
https://www.ft.com/content/19d3aa5f-321b-4ec1-a620-6860ad089c55
'Almost immediately after Ms. Klemmer’s first dose of medication in February, she was hit with side effects: acid reflux, constipation, queasiness, fatigue. But, she said, it was like a switch flipped in her brain — the “food noise” went silent.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/well/eat/ozempic-food-noise.html
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
