Megan Cully
megancully.bsky.social
Megan Cully
@megancully.bsky.social
Biochemist, biotech/healthtech, building strategic partnerships and providing direction of travel. Formerly a Nat Rev Drug Disc editor, U Calgary, U Toronto and CRUK-LRI alum
I know there are dozens of 'biological age' calculators out there. For simplicity, I like Morgan Levine's www.aging-us.com/article/1014... , and for data richness I love Cornelia van Duijn's proteomic www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natmedicine.bsky.social . Which ones are your favourites?
An epigenetic biomarker of aging for lifespan and healthspan | Aging
Aging | doi:10.18632/aging.101414. Morgan E. Levine, Ake T. Lu, Austin Quach, Brian H. Chen, Themistocles L. Assimes, Stefania Bandinelli, Lifang Hou, Andrea A. Baccarelli, James D. Stewart, Yun Li, E...
www.aging-us.com
January 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I'm not even sure what to make of this. New day, new surprise.
‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel

In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
#AcademicSky

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel
In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
www.nature.com
January 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"Whatever you do, don't take health advice from a centenarian". Love it.
On living to 100.
How much does genetics play a role?
Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/w...
January 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
When the inventor of the technology you're using says ‘Holy crap, why didn’t I think of something like this before? This is amazing!’, you're on to something cool.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Build your own receptor: modular system can be tailored to any antigen
PAGERs provide modular, customizable G-protein-coupled receptors for cell-signalling studies.
www.nature.com
January 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Does anyone have a way to find and follow all the people I used to follow on 'other' platforms?
January 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Reposted by Megan Cully
"We estimate that the sources of drinking water for up to 23 million Americans could be contaminated above regulatory thresholds by wastewater-derived PFAS [forever chemicals] alone." @pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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January 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This highlights a key question for scientists: how can we ensure timely access to information without spreading misinformation?
I was at NRDD during the outbreak: tons of submissions from people proposing their drug-of-choice, targeting their mechanism-of-personal-interest, for Covid. All rejected.
Breaking news: A 2020 paper that sparked widespread enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine as a #COVID19 treatment has been retracted, following campaigning by scientists who alleged the research contained major scientific flaws and may have breached ethics regulations. scim.ag/4iR9bQ6
Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted
Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds
scim.ag
December 18, 2024 at 9:47 AM