7 Basic Science Discoveries that Changed the World
🧪 #BasicResearch #Scicomm
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🧪 #BasicResearch #Scicomm
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7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM
7 Basic Science Discoveries that Changed the World
🧪 #BasicResearch #Scicomm
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #BasicResearch #Scicomm
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why do we use the African turquoise #killifish as a #comparativebiology animal model and how does it help researchers study aging, #neurodegenerative diseases, #cancer and more in #basicresearch?
#standwithscience 🧪 🤝
#standwithscience 🧪 🤝
April 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Why do we use the African turquoise #killifish as a #comparativebiology animal model and how does it help researchers study aging, #neurodegenerative diseases, #cancer and more in #basicresearch?
#standwithscience 🧪 🤝
#standwithscience 🧪 🤝
The upregulated Hmgcs2, peroxisomal fatty acid oxidation genes, and CYP4A genes may compensate for impaired mitochondrial long-chain fatty acid metabolism in Cpt1a-deficient PT cells. https://bit.ly/KID0746
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April 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The upregulated Hmgcs2, peroxisomal fatty acid oxidation genes, and CYP4A genes may compensate for impaired mitochondrial long-chain fatty acid metabolism in Cpt1a-deficient PT cells. https://bit.ly/KID0746
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#BasicResearch
#ASNKidney360
#BasicResearch
Anti-miR-21-SNA treatment alters mitochondrial metabolism, apoptotic signaling and inhibits kidney tissue fibrosis, indicating potential as a therapeutic strategy for cystic kidney disease. https://bit.ly/KID0771
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#BasicResearch
#ASNKidney360
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April 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Anti-miR-21-SNA treatment alters mitochondrial metabolism, apoptotic signaling and inhibits kidney tissue fibrosis, indicating potential as a therapeutic strategy for cystic kidney disease. https://bit.ly/KID0771
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#ASNKidney360
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Test 12345 - where are the #devbio, #zebrafish, #CHD, #diseasemodeling, #modelorganism, #basicresearch people on here?
Gratuitous zebrafish pic as lure:
Gratuitous zebrafish pic as lure:
August 18, 2023 at 11:44 PM
Test 12345 - where are the #devbio, #zebrafish, #CHD, #diseasemodeling, #modelorganism, #basicresearch people on here?
Gratuitous zebrafish pic as lure:
Gratuitous zebrafish pic as lure:
The study authors demonstrated sizeable reductions in urinary phosphate excretion in response to OLC monotherapy and the most pronounced reductions in urinary phosphate excretion when using OLC in combination with Tenapanor.
https://bit.ly/KID0709
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#BasicResearch
https://bit.ly/KID0709
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#BasicResearch
April 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The study authors demonstrated sizeable reductions in urinary phosphate excretion in response to OLC monotherapy and the most pronounced reductions in urinary phosphate excretion when using OLC in combination with Tenapanor.
https://bit.ly/KID0709
#ASNKidney360
#BasicResearch
https://bit.ly/KID0709
#ASNKidney360
#BasicResearch
In this shortlisted article for the EACR #KeepResearchCurious Science Communication Prize, Agustina Sabater writes about the importance of stoking the flames of curiosity in cancer research: magazine.eacr.org/when-curiosi...
#BasicResearch #CancerResearch
#BasicResearch #CancerResearch
When curiosity is the catalyst, innovation is the product - The Cancer Researcher
Agustina Sabater writes about the value of pursuing curiosity in cancer research in driving innovation.
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November 15, 2024 at 10:23 AM
In this shortlisted article for the EACR #KeepResearchCurious Science Communication Prize, Agustina Sabater writes about the importance of stoking the flames of curiosity in cancer research: magazine.eacr.org/when-curiosi...
#BasicResearch #CancerResearch
#BasicResearch #CancerResearch
This study identified a novel role for LARP7 in maintaining VSMC contractile phenotype and mitigating CKD-associated vascular pathologies. Read more: kidney.pub/JASN0761 #ASNJASN #BasicResearch
June 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This study identified a novel role for LARP7 in maintaining VSMC contractile phenotype and mitigating CKD-associated vascular pathologies. Read more: kidney.pub/JASN0761 #ASNJASN #BasicResearch
Research shows that transcriptional regulators YAP and TAZ can maintain podocyte viability by compensating for each other's loss, but TAZ fails to maintain YAP-specific functions, leading to podocyte injury. https://bit.ly/JASN0689
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April 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Research shows that transcriptional regulators YAP and TAZ can maintain podocyte viability by compensating for each other's loss, but TAZ fails to maintain YAP-specific functions, leading to podocyte injury. https://bit.ly/JASN0689
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#BasicResearch
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#BasicResearch
Explore the therapeutic potential of LIMM102 (Engineered Neuromedin U) in a preclinical mouse model of AKI: kidney.pub/JASN0747 #ASNJASN #BasicResearch
June 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Explore the therapeutic potential of LIMM102 (Engineered Neuromedin U) in a preclinical mouse model of AKI: kidney.pub/JASN0747 #ASNJASN #BasicResearch
🇵🇹 Henrique Veiga-Fernandes from @champalimaudr.bsky.social is Portugal’s only new @erc.europa.eu Ambassador! 🎉
👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/champal...
Selected among 200+ applicants, he’ll champion #frontierresearch across Europe.
Congrats, Henrique! 👏
#ERC #ScienceMatters #BasicResearch
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Selected among 200+ applicants, he’ll champion #frontierresearch across Europe.
Congrats, Henrique! 👏
#ERC #ScienceMatters #BasicResearch
April 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
🇵🇹 Henrique Veiga-Fernandes from @champalimaudr.bsky.social is Portugal’s only new @erc.europa.eu Ambassador! 🎉
👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/champal...
Selected among 200+ applicants, he’ll champion #frontierresearch across Europe.
Congrats, Henrique! 👏
#ERC #ScienceMatters #BasicResearch
👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/champal...
Selected among 200+ applicants, he’ll champion #frontierresearch across Europe.
Congrats, Henrique! 👏
#ERC #ScienceMatters #BasicResearch
KRT20 is widely recognized as a biomarker of kidney tubular injury. This #ASNJASN article indicate KRT20 is upregulated in early AKI, serving to protect kidney tubule cells. Read more: kidney.pub/JASN0805 #BasicResearch
August 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
KRT20 is widely recognized as a biomarker of kidney tubular injury. This #ASNJASN article indicate KRT20 is upregulated in early AKI, serving to protect kidney tubule cells. Read more: kidney.pub/JASN0805 #BasicResearch
Nobel Prizes this year celebrate decades of #BasicResearch! 🤯💡 Turns out, "useless" curiosity can build the future we can't yet see. 🚀 #Science #Innovation
October 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Nobel Prizes this year celebrate decades of #BasicResearch! 🤯💡 Turns out, "useless" curiosity can build the future we can't yet see. 🚀 #Science #Innovation
Yeast research in George Carman’s lab at Rutgers reveals how a phosphatase complex links to lipid disorders and brain tumors in humans. Another win for fundamental science! wix.to/IXAfg19 #Microbiology #CellBiology #BasicResearch #Rutgers #DrugDiscovery
From Yeast to Human Health: How Understanding a Common Fungus Unlocks Secrets of Lipid Disorders and Brain Tumors
Often, the key to understanding complex human diseases lies in studying a simpler organism. Recent research into baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is a perfect example. By delving deep into the...
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May 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Yeast research in George Carman’s lab at Rutgers reveals how a phosphatase complex links to lipid disorders and brain tumors in humans. Another win for fundamental science! wix.to/IXAfg19 #Microbiology #CellBiology #BasicResearch #Rutgers #DrugDiscovery
"Industry doesn’t typically fund #basicresearch & it costs more 2 do research in industry in part because companies, unlike university labs, have to pay competitive wages ...'It’s not just the intern'l students, the whole system is on hold because the ..." 1/2 #CanSky #IDSky #research #CancerBS
U.S. Scientists Warn That Trump’s Cuts Will Set Off a Brain Drain
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June 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"Industry doesn’t typically fund #basicresearch & it costs more 2 do research in industry in part because companies, unlike university labs, have to pay competitive wages ...'It’s not just the intern'l students, the whole system is on hold because the ..." 1/2 #CanSky #IDSky #research #CancerBS
"That’s why we should worry about the invisible Karikós: the people with good ideas that weren’t popular at the time who dropped out of academia.
We’ll never know what we missed."
#basicresearch #nobelprize
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We’ll never know what we missed."
#basicresearch #nobelprize
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The Karikó problem: Lessons for funding basic research
"Fund people not projects" is easier said than done. A better way to fund science is to bend over backward to fund a truly diverse range of people and ideas, even including those perceived as unpopula...
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October 4, 2023 at 9:32 AM
"That’s why we should worry about the invisible Karikós: the people with good ideas that weren’t popular at the time who dropped out of academia.
We’ll never know what we missed."
#basicresearch #nobelprize
www.statnews.com/2022/02/01/k...
We’ll never know what we missed."
#basicresearch #nobelprize
www.statnews.com/2022/02/01/k...
Progression of IgA Nephropathy can vary between individuals, particularly between children and adults. This #ASNJASN paper examined the transcriptional profiles to further understand these differences: kidney.pub/JASN0787 #BasicResearch
July 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Progression of IgA Nephropathy can vary between individuals, particularly between children and adults. This #ASNJASN paper examined the transcriptional profiles to further understand these differences: kidney.pub/JASN0787 #BasicResearch
What role does telomere dysfunction in renal tubular epithelial cells play in the onset and progression of kidney fibrosis? This #ASNJASN research explores: kidney.pub/JASN0771 #BasicResearch
August 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
What role does telomere dysfunction in renal tubular epithelial cells play in the onset and progression of kidney fibrosis? This #ASNJASN research explores: kidney.pub/JASN0771 #BasicResearch
Was fortunate to speak with the MDHS team at @Unimelb recently about mitochondrial disease and the importance of basic research in developing novel therapeutics and personalized medicines!
Read here: biomedicalsciences.unimelb.edu.au/news-and-eve...
#Mitochondria #Unimelb #BasicResearch
Read here: biomedicalsciences.unimelb.edu.au/news-and-eve...
#Mitochondria #Unimelb #BasicResearch
Illuminate Tomorrow – This World Mitochondrial Disease week we are illuminating tomorrow’s leaders in Mito research
Illuminate Tomorrow – This World Mitochondrial Disease week we are illuminating tomorrow’s leaders in Mito research
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December 4, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Was fortunate to speak with the MDHS team at @Unimelb recently about mitochondrial disease and the importance of basic research in developing novel therapeutics and personalized medicines!
Read here: biomedicalsciences.unimelb.edu.au/news-and-eve...
#Mitochondria #Unimelb #BasicResearch
Read here: biomedicalsciences.unimelb.edu.au/news-and-eve...
#Mitochondria #Unimelb #BasicResearch
Estamos preparando un podcast en #español para @dem_researcher con @ivi_pavisic #basicresearch, Daniel Jimenez (@interneurona #neurology), Julieta Camino #OT y yo misma #neuropsychology. Qué temas os gustaría que tratáramos? Se abre ronda de sugerencias ✍️✍️✍️
November 24, 2024 at 3:25 AM
Estamos preparando un podcast en #español para @dem_researcher con @ivi_pavisic #basicresearch, Daniel Jimenez (@interneurona #neurology), Julieta Camino #OT y yo misma #neuropsychology. Qué temas os gustaría que tratáramos? Se abre ronda de sugerencias ✍️✍️✍️
New Award for ME/CFS Research! Thanks to a donation by the WE&ME Foundation to the FWF’s alpha+ Foundation, €450,000 are now available to researchers to fund the search for urgently needed knowledge about a little-understood disease. #Philanthropy #BasicResearch www.fwf.ac.at/en/news/deta...
WE&ME Award: New Funding Award for ME/CFS Research in Austria
Achieving scientific breakthroughs in the fight against ME/CFS – this is the aim of the WE&ME Foundation. Thanks to a donation to the FWF’s alpha+ Foundation, €450,000 are now available to researchers...
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June 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
New Award for ME/CFS Research! Thanks to a donation by the WE&ME Foundation to the FWF’s alpha+ Foundation, €450,000 are now available to researchers to fund the search for urgently needed knowledge about a little-understood disease. #Philanthropy #BasicResearch www.fwf.ac.at/en/news/deta...
Piezo1 plays a key mechanosensory role in podocyte injury during DKD progression by mediating calcium influx and activating the NFATc1/TRPC6 signaling pathway. https://bit.ly/JASN0634
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#BasicResearch
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March 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Piezo1 plays a key mechanosensory role in podocyte injury during DKD progression by mediating calcium influx and activating the NFATc1/TRPC6 signaling pathway. https://bit.ly/JASN0634
#ASNJASN
#BasicResearch
#ASNJASN
#BasicResearch
Wish we had such an #opendiscussion and #clearplan for #research in #Italy... Not to mention non-existent #payrise, #basicresearch funding, or a National Research Agency that never took off, right @mur_gov_ ?
nature.com/articles/d4158…
nature.com/articles/d4158…
France’s research minister has a plan to shake up science
Nature - Physicist-turned-politician Sylvie Retailleau speaks to Nature about her ambitions for the country’s scientific research.
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December 15, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Wish we had such an #opendiscussion and #clearplan for #research in #Italy... Not to mention non-existent #payrise, #basicresearch funding, or a National Research Agency that never took off, right @mur_gov_ ?
nature.com/articles/d4158…
nature.com/articles/d4158…
To all the newskies, welcome! #HiSciSky
As #firstgen PI at BCM in Houston, my lab studies how the #microbiome alters host physiology using genetics & genomics in #Celegans. Our lens is #BasicResearch, but aim to promote human health on earth and beyond.
🧪🖥️🧬 #AcademicSky #MicroSky 1/3
As #firstgen PI at BCM in Houston, my lab studies how the #microbiome alters host physiology using genetics & genomics in #Celegans. Our lens is #BasicResearch, but aim to promote human health on earth and beyond.
🧪🖥️🧬 #AcademicSky #MicroSky 1/3
November 12, 2024 at 8:27 PM
To all the newskies, welcome! #HiSciSky
As #firstgen PI at BCM in Houston, my lab studies how the #microbiome alters host physiology using genetics & genomics in #Celegans. Our lens is #BasicResearch, but aim to promote human health on earth and beyond.
🧪🖥️🧬 #AcademicSky #MicroSky 1/3
As #firstgen PI at BCM in Houston, my lab studies how the #microbiome alters host physiology using genetics & genomics in #Celegans. Our lens is #BasicResearch, but aim to promote human health on earth and beyond.
🧪🖥️🧬 #AcademicSky #MicroSky 1/3
Thank you #modelorganism #basicresearch
November 30, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Thank you #modelorganism #basicresearch