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Stephanie DeMarco, PhD retweeted
26 Nov 2024
Whether lost in a 30-year-old data set or a 1,000-year-old leech book, scientists are using new machine learning and AI tools to find promising drugs lost to time.
@sci_steph explores this and more in a new editorial: drugdiscoverynews.com/redisc…
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Stephanie DeMarco, PhD retweeted
29 Nov 2024
Hepatic stellate cells are most directly responsible for liver fibrosis, but what else is involved?
@AndrewSaintsing reports on a study from @PittTweet researchers that implicates trehalose metabolism in the intestine.
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Stephanie DeMarco, PhD retweeted
1 Dec 2024
Antidepressants have been used to treat pain, but often take too long to work.
@GLopez_924 spoke with scientists @IcahnMountSinai about a recent study that features a non-FDA approved antidepressant that may provide fast and long-lasting pain relief.
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Stephanie DeMarco, PhD retweeted
19 Nov 2024
In a high-throughput screen of repurposed drugs, @MichaelBollong @scrippsresearch and his team identified a drug that turns back time on aged lung stem cells.
It may be a new treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, he told @sci_steph.
Read more: ow.ly/K8zV50U9wsV
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Stephanie DeMarco, PhD retweeted
26 Sep 2024
DEADLINE EXTENDED! Apply by Monday, September 30!
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17 Sep 2024
Are you a #STEM researcher interested in developing your #scicomm skills, network, and publication portfolio?
Apply to our 7th workshop (November 7-11) associated with #SciWri2024 conference in Raleigh, NC!
Apply here before September 25! comscicon.org/comscicon-sciw…
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26 Sep 2024
Today, the FDA approved the first new type of drug for schizophrenia in 70 years. Check out @allisonpwhitten's deep dive into the story behind this new drug for @DrugDiscovNews: drugdiscoverynews.com/after-…
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Stephanie DeMarco, PhD retweeted
6 Sep 2024
“People think of statistics as just sitting at the computer and working on math and methods, but we're really motivated to develop these statistics to improve public health,” @rebeccajk13 @CDCgov told @sci_steph about her maternal GBS vaccine model.
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Stephanie DeMarco, PhD retweeted
30 Aug 2024
What if doctors could treat heart attacks with a strong dose of regeneration?
In this new DDN Dialogues podcast, @allisonpwhitten spoke with experts who are not too far off from turning that into a reality.
🎧Listen here: ow.ly/qt5550SXPnk
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Stephanie DeMarco, PhD retweeted
19 Aug 2024
From interview to the blue glow of a nuclear reactor, @sci_steph gives a behind-the-scenes look into the making of the DDN Dialogues podcast episode: From warhead to cancer-killer, the quest for more actinium-225.
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12 Aug 2024
Definitely felt that one!! 🫨
12 Aug 2024
A 4.7 magnitude earthquake occurred 2.49mi SW of South Pasadena, California. Details: eqbot.com/yfU Map: eqbot.com/yf5
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Stephanie DeMarco, PhD retweeted
19 Jul 2024
In a new DDN Dialogues episode, researchers @friendlymicrobe @WarwickLifeSci, @NorseLass @UniofNottingham, and Steve Diggle @GeorgiaTech told @sci_steph about their work searching for new antibiotics in historical medical manuscripts.
🎧 Listen here: ow.ly/Kg4m50SxksZ
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Stephanie DeMarco, PhD retweeted
10 Jul 2024
In medieval Europe, a toothache could kill you.
But, people did have access to cures for all sorts of maladies in medical manuscripts, @JAndrewKlein, history of medicine curator @TheHuntington, told @sci_steph in a new DDN Dialogues podcast.
Listen here: ow.ly/in2u50SxkLJ
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Stephanie DeMarco, PhD retweeted
4 Jul 2024
Who would have thought a glob of honey and a splash of vinegar would be so good at killing bacteria? People back in ancient times, of course!
🎧 Listen to @sci_steph’s podcast episode about searching historical medical texts for modern-day therapies:
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Stephanie DeMarco, PhD retweeted
30 Jun 2024
Meet the robots manufacturing cell therapies!
“Our approach to automation is always very respectful of the biology team...we adapt the robots to the biology. We don't ask them to adapt biology to the robots,” Fred Parietti @multiplylabs told @sci_steph.
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Stephanie DeMarco, PhD retweeted
27 Jun 2024
Our Chief Scientist Mike Sapieha, Ph.D. joined the @DrugDiscovNews DDN Dialogues podcast with host @sci_steph to break down our senolytic model and #UBX1325’s recent clinical trial success in improving vision and eye health in patients with #DME.
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Stephanie DeMarco, PhD retweeted
26 Jun 2024
Barely alive but not quite dead, senescent cells cause a lot of damage, especially in the retina.
Check out @sci_steph’s podcast about how scientists @UMontreal and @UnityBiotech developed a drug that kills these undead cells in diabetic macular edema.
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Stephanie DeMarco, PhD retweeted
12 Jun 2024
As the zombies of the body, senescent cells spew out damaging molecules as they refuse to die.
But a new drug developed by a team @UnityBiotech and @UMontreal killed these cells in the diabetic macular edema eye,
🎧 @sci_steph reports in a new episode:
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Stephanie DeMarco, PhD retweeted
29 May 2024
Researchers led by Mike Sapieha @UMontreal and @UnityBiotech developed a new class of drugs for diabetic macular edema that targets senescent cells in the eye.
🎧Find out more in @sci_steph’s latest DDN Dialogues podcast episode.
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23 May 2024
I had so much fun making this podcast episode and would love if you gave it a listen! Also, check out our episode page for some photos I took at the @UCIrvine nuclear reactor lab! ⚛️ drugdiscoverynews.com/from-w…
23 May 2024
Actinium-225 emits high energy alpha particles that bust up tumor DNA, killing cancer cells.
Researchers at #ServaEnergy developed a new way to make more of it for clinical trials and eventual treatments.
🎧 @sci_steph reports in a new podcast episode:
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Stephanie DeMarco, PhD retweeted
14 May 2024
Amoebae hunt and eat bacteria hiding in biofilms.
By studying the compounds that amoebae produce to break down these antibiotic tolerant biofilms, “we as researchers can see what it produces and mimic it” @IBiofilms @ReichmanUni told @sci_steph.
Read on:
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