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Nobel Prize winner with few papers shows impact isn't just about quantity | Priya Kumari posted on the topic | LinkedIn
We often measure success in research by numbers: publications, citations, rankings. But then I came across the story of Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year’s Nobel Prize winners in Medicine. She had ju...
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October 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ suzetrigine, which will be marketed under the name Journavx, targets specific sodium channels that help pass signals on from the site of pain. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #biosky
FDA approves new nonopioid pain medication, hailed a 'triumph'
Vertex’s suzetrigine is a paradigm shift in pain management, the firm’s CEO says
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February 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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"Research is messy. … Trying to protect students from that reality does them a disservice."

On #InternationalDayOfEducation, take a look back at this #ScienceWorkingLife on teaching students about scientific failure. https://scim.ag/3PLg8ER
Illustration of one person holding papers observing students aiming for a target, with multiple arrows missing the bullseye. The text reads: Working Life, Why I teach my students about scientific failure.
January 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Blood vessels in the brain rhythmically constrict and dilate to drive waves of cleansing fluid through the organ

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How the brain cleans itself during deep sleep
Blood vessels in the brain rhythmically constrict and dilate to drive waves of cleansing fluid through the organ.
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January 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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As wildfires rage in LA, this graphic in @cenmag.bsky.social looks at one way chemistry can be used to tackle them: cen.acs.org/environment/...

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Infographic on suppressing wildfires with chemistry. The graphic looks at Phos-chek, a fire retardant which contains ammonium phosphates or sulfates as the active ingredient. The red colour comes from iron(III) oxide. While Phos-Chek only causes mild skin and eye irritation for humans, it’s hazardous to aquatic organisms. When applied in front of wildfires, Phos-Chek forms phosphate esters which form a protective char that slows wildfires’ spread.
January 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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In 2024, the US Food and Drug Administration approved 50 novel molecular entities, down slightly from 55 in 2023. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #biosky #biopharma
50 new drugs received FDA approval in 2024
The agency gave its nod to almost as many new molecular entities last year as it did in 2023
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January 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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This week is World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week 🦠

This graphic highlights the discovery dates of some key classes of antibiotics – note that no new class of antibiotics has reached the market since 1987

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A Guide to Different Classes of Antibiotics. Twelve different classes of antibiotic are shown in this graphic with discovery dates indicated, from approximately 1930 through to 1990. Whether the classes are bacteriostatic agents (chloramphenicol, oxazolidinones, sulfonamides, tetracyclines and macrolides) or bactericidal agents (beta-lactams, aminoglycosides, glycopeptides, quinolones, ansamycins, streptogramins and lipopeptides) is also indicated.
November 19, 2024 at 8:59 PM