Nick Zalud
entropicneuron.bsky.social
Nick Zalud
@entropicneuron.bsky.social
Contemplating existence and consciousness with my orb

MS pharmaceutical student studying psychopharmacology
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November 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Efficient and modular synthesis of ibogaine and related alkaloids, from David E. Olson and co-workers.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Efficient and modular synthesis of ibogaine and related alkaloids - Nature Chemistry
Preliminary clinical trials suggest that ibogaine and its active metabolite noribogaine have powerful anti-addictive properties, Now, a strategy for the scalable, asymmetric total synthesis of ibogain...
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February 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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There is evidence that technologies like search engines and GPS maps can alter our ability to learn and remember. Nature reports how scientists are now working out what AI might do to our memories. 🧪
Are the Internet and AI affecting our memory? What the science says
Search engines, GPS maps and other tech can alter our ability to learn and remember. Now scientists are working out what AI might do.
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February 14, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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This Review in the February issue discusses progress with enhancing the activity of endogenous regulatory T cells or delivering them as cell-based therapies for allergy, autoimmunity and cancer www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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February 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Full size image of iconic Pillars of Creation.
By JWST.
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February 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
February 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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A new paper uncovers that certain κ-opioid receptor inverse agonists form receptor-G protein complexes, even in inactive states, challenging the classic GPCR activation model

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Molecular mechanisms of inverse agonism via κ-opioid receptor–G protein complexes - Nature Chemical Biology
This study uncovers that certain κ-opioid receptor inverse agonists form receptor–G protein complexes, even in inactive states, challenging the classic GPCR activation model.
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January 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil, according to a report from Nature. 🧪
Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders
The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.
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February 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Sound healing and beyond go.nature.com/3Q5rNOY
February 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM