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 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?
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...
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
I'm not even sure what to make of this. New day, new surprise.
"Whatever you do, don't take health advice from a centenarian". Love it.
January 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
"Whatever you do, don't take health advice from a centenarian". Love it.
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...
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
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...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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
Does anyone have a way to find and follow all the people I used to follow on 'other' platforms?
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/...
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...
www.pnas.org
January 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
"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/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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.
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
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.
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.