Alex Davis

Love all things science!

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Major academic publishers make billions of dollars:

Elsevier: $3.9 billion, Springer Nature: $2 billion, Wiley: $1.8 billion

As for peer reviewers, they are paid $0.

ReseachHub is a new online platform that pays peer reviewers up to $150 per review:

[Cell Host & Microbe @cellhostmicrobe]

Rewild your gut: Fighting modern diseases w/ancient microbes
Preview of @CellCellPress work showing diet mimicking non-industrialized patterns (“Restore” diet) enhances L. reuteri & improves microbiome metabolites, leading to cardiometabolic benefits
https://t.co/Yckvh7NWNw

[F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE @fperrywilson]

The GLP-1 receptor agonists (like Ozempic and Mounjaro) are wildly effective weight-loss agents. But are they COST-effective? That's a trickier question. And a new study just out in JAMA Health Forum provides an answer. A resounding "no."
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[Alex Davis @sciencegeek0]

@MonicaGandhi9 @NIHDirector @DrJBhattacharya How do you know this? This article says they are thinking of targeting South Africa grants.

[Alex Davis @sciencegeek0]

@catgyoung This is what I was asking about

[Alex Davis @sciencegeek0]

@catgyoung I thought there was a cut to the NIH Cures act in the House bill. Did they cut NIH funding in the bill that just passed?

[Science Katy @katy_robeck]

Amazing talk by @DamaniaLab today at #IHW2023
Elegant work and recently published in @NatureComms

https://t.co/NTrmkj0uR4

[Mark Lewis, MD, FASCO @marklewismd]

My daughter drew a cancer cell dying and HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE

[Alex Davis @sciencegeek0]

@catgyoung As a woman in academic leadership, I’d recommend @DamaniaLab

[Alex Davis @sciencegeek0]

@AACRFoundation @AACR @DamaniaLab @UNC_SOM @OoR_UNC @UNCResearch @UNC_Lineberger

[AACR Foundation @AACRFoundation]

How do viruses transform normal cells into cancer cells? With the help of a grant from the @AACR, Blossom Damania, PhD, has explored that question. Read more: https://t.co/Cz9eO6SxST @DamaniaLab #AACRGrants

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Not good. A new mechanism for a false positive test, even when you haven't had the test
https://t.co/4OwXHButzl

[UNC Lineberger @UNC_Lineberger]

A study led by researchers in the lab of Blossom Damania (@DamaniaLab), PhD, shows how Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus and Epstein-Barr virus hijack a human protein to help the viruses evade innate immune detection to spread undeterred. https://t.co/mpXQhG5plo

[UNC Lineberger @UNC_Lineberger]

A study led by @DamaniaLab researchers shows how Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus and Epstein-Barr virus hijack a human protein to help the viruses evade innate immune detection to spread undeterred. https://t.co/mpXQhG5plo

[Corcoran Lab @corcoran_lab]

https://t.co/oEmB2gNW5y
Congrats to @DamaniaLab and colleagues. Nice work!

[Blossom Damania 🔬🧬🧪🦠🧫 @DamaniaLab]

Our story on the modulation of cGAS by KSHV and EBV is out in ⁦@NatureComms⁩
Big congrats to my grad student, Grant @gsbrou ! Thanks also to our coauthors.⁦@LabDittmer⁩

Barrier-to-autointegration factor 1 promotes gammaherpesvirus reactivation https://t.co/hzVRKNPzJ1

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

Do you prefer to work at night or during the day?

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

What % of people have had Covid?
3 reports in the last couple of weeks with different methods, population, timing
Range from 42 to 94%!
https://t.co/TQxPntYynP
https://t.co/rxerJQZy7J
https://t.co/BmKl4B4UwE

[AACR Foundation @AACRFoundation]

How do viruses transform normal cells into cancer cells? That's the question Blossom Damania, PhD, has sought to answer, with some help from the AACR. Read more: https://t.co/ZW55s1rlpD

[MicrobeTV @profvrr]

In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses Influenza incidence and vaccine effectiveness, Nirsevimab for prevention of RSV infection in infants, severe Monkeypox in hospitalized patients, reinfections with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants and more https://t.co/HDkTfevAAW