BREAKING NEWS
The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
Researchers in Prof. Yosef Yarden's lab have developed an advanced synthetic antibody with potential as an anticancer drug. A study published in @CellRepMed demonstrates that this antibody can prevent or significantly delay drug resistance in mice
just for the pleasure of it, the fine choreography of epithelial cell migration with a PI3K mutation. This is the complex behavior we have to drug to treat cancer ... Movie from @lhinderling . Switch sound on.
Weizmann Institute researchers identify a biomarker that may one day enable a subgroup of lung cancer patients to benefit from relapse-free treatment >> (1/3)
New #NAFLD Nomenclature!
Fatty Liver = Steatotic Liver Disease #SLD
NAFLD = #MASLD
NASH = #MASH
MASLD who drink ETOH = #MetALD
Alcohol related liver disease = #ALD
SLD with known cause (drug, Hep C, Wilson, other genetic etc.) = specific etiology SLD
SLD without known metabolic or other risk = cryptogenic SLD
#LiverTwitter
https://t.co/JNtJyAQdtV
@DrElePalma - Scientific (R)Evolution has started!!!……Is it the beginning of the end for scientific publishing? – podcast | Science | The Guardian
@Inst_of_Hep
#livertwitter https://t.co/hOY0q4XmrW
In Mexico Alcoholic Liver Diseases is the mainel cause of Cirrhosis. Global epidemiology of cirrhosis — aetiology, trends and predictions | Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology https://t.co/sxAJZybQ65
#obesity "is not just about health; it's an economic problem with people suffering estimated to take 4 extra sick days a year. We are storing up problems for individual, the NHS and the economy."
#CTA#obesity#diseaseburden#NHS
Our London Team is expanding: our new Post-Doc Arturo Simoni Nieves (@arturo_vedder) joined the Liver Metabolism and NAFLD Lab at the @Inst_of_Hep to work on Advanced Liver Cultures focussing on #NASH & NASH-HCC. Please join me & @GabrieleMocciar in wishing him best of luck!
A very warm welcome to Dr Arturo Simoni Nieves, our newest postdoctoral researcher at the Vacca Lab.
Arturo will be joining Professor @MikeVacca1979 (Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Liver Metabolism & #NAFLD and Dr @GabrieleMocciar at @Inst_of_Hep