Bradley J. Fikes 🦔

Echidnaphile and @sdut reporter on biotechnology and San Diego Zoo. Catch me at: and

[Dr. Lia N. Kajiki @LiaKajiki]

WHAT A GORGEOUS GIANT ANTEATER 😍
Definitely the best camera trap record I've got so far!!

When camera traps are not being used to monitor Helmeted Manakin's nests, I install them in tracks around my fieldwork area to better know the residents around!

[Bradley J. Fikes 🦔 @sandiegoscience]

@pknoepfler Glad I didn't read this at breakfast. 🤢

[Bradley J. Fikes 🦔 @sandiegoscience]

"The vaping-linked illnesses everyone's been panicking are a result of synthetic vitamin E filler (and maybe other substances) that people were inhaling from mostly black-market THC vape pens."

https://t.co/e4s2U8uz1B

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Instead of a 60-year-old test that takes 3 hours, a simple 2 minute accurate sweat test for cystic fibrosis that uses #AI (ML) to distinguish DESI mass spec pattern for healthy vs. #CF
https://t.co/P4ScilQifA @PNASNews by @RichardNZare and colleagues @StanfordMed

[Bradley J. Fikes 🦔 @sandiegoscience]

Mouse study led by Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute prompts clinical trial of new concept in asparagine-restrictive pancreatic cancer therapy

https://t.co/SrLO5LSCmb

@SBPdiscovery

[Alzheimer's Association San Diego/Imperial @SanDiegoAlz]

“'Bob,' I announced, 'We are going to live with your Alzheimer’s, not die with it.' Shame, I told him, was not an option. He had a disease, not a moral failing. It was time to come out of the shadows," writes Mary Hogan. #ENDALZ via @EverydayHealth https://t.co/Gnx0ZgLKUG

[Antimicrobials Working Group @AWG_News]

"The problem of antibiotic resistance is worse than we originally estimated” - @CDCgov's Michael Craig addresses the Antibiotic Resistance Threat Report Hill briefing, co-hosted by @pewhealth and @IDSAInfo #CDCARThreats #AMR

[Be the change you want to be @AgBioWorld]

“Pesticides tend to receive little else but bad press — bees are slain, lawsuits are filed, and proponents of everything....Yet pesticides are vital to human health, nutrition, and global food security. Simply put, we cannot live without them” https://t.co/QzRhLCMKuc

[San Diego Zoo Safari Park @sdzsafaripark]

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt. - John Muir

📷: Todd Lahman

[Community Oncology @oncologyCOA]

"These new agents appear to be a losing proposition for hospitals, which may lose up to $300,000 for each CAR-T treatment administered, note experts in a commentary published online November 1 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology." https://t.co/lo9WG4LGat

[Bradley J. Fikes 🦔 @sandiegoscience]

Tips for success for San Diego girls who want to be scientists, from successful female scientists. My second story about Wednesday's San Diego Unified STEAM Leadership Series provides advice that didn't get into the first article.

https://t.co/Kv0XWsjvmn

[Be the change you want to be @AgBioWorld]

Zebra mom earns her stripes

https://t.co/ttnUuio6Mo

[Bradley J. Fikes 🦔 @sandiegoscience]

Jean Rivier, the late Salk Institute brain hormone expert, loved exploring wild places, said his wife, Catherine Rivier.

“If I wanted to visit Paris or Rome or London, I was on my own. They were too civilized for him.”
@salkinstitute https://t.co/vJbl2a71Te

[Salk Institute @salkinstitute]

Jean Rivier, Salk Professor Emeritus, Passes Away at 78 - Salk Institute for Biological Studies https://t.co/i6cyjqzgBu via @salkinstitute

[Bradley J. Fikes 🦔 @sandiegoscience]

News about @humanlongevity from @JCVenter

[gone @gone10043]

Human Longevity is back and resuming the medical revolution of testing asymptotic presumed healthy people with up to 40% serious life saving findings.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

"If the dead could speak, they would probably wish to contribute to the welfare of the living." —Kevin De Cock @CDCKenya & colleagues https://t.co/ABCkFCUCbF @NEJM "The experience could be humbling or reassuring, but it was always a deterrent to medical hubris."
Mistakes in >30%

[Bradley J. Fikes 🦔 @sandiegoscience]

“It’s gonna be difficult. You’re going to get rejected. You’re not going to be having fun days every day. But ... I’ve traveled all over the world. I’ve ended up in places I never thought I would be.”

https://t.co/YDp9rRvfQj

[Bradley J. Fikes 🦔 @sandiegoscience]

"You've ruined my life now."
@OHnewsroom