Scientist doing clinical research, likes fats which are 1000s diverse molecules important in brain health 🧠 & Liver disease, Dementia & Diabetes
Technology massspec, lipidomics & metabolomics, proteins & 🧬 big data
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Cristina Legido-Quigley
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Good weekend from a rainy London #caturday #flowers
Really happy to see our paper finally published in PNAS 🎉
We used honey bees to study how gut microbiota shape cognition and found that learning benefits only appear when the full microbial community is present — not with individual bacterial species alone. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Cristina Legido-Quigley
Wellcome Discovery Awards fund established researchers and teams to pursue bold ideas that advance health and wellbeing research.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/funding/well...
Physicist Rosalyn Yalow co-invented a super-sensitive test (radioimmunoassay) that uses tiny amounts of radioactive tags to detect exact levels of insulin in blood & won the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (the 2nd woman ever to win in this category).
She died #OTD in 2011. #WomenInSTEM
Online now: Healthful plant-based diet, gut enterotype, and cognition in a rural Chinese elderly cohort: A longitudinal multi-omics study
DAvid Owen
Our latest preprint is out and we found that sugar derivatives are increased in Alzheimer's Disease & identified a pathway that could be modulated www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
hard work this business of making biscuits #caturday #catsofsky
Dr. Patricia Bath overcame sexism, racism & poverty and saved the sight of millions of people.
She invented the Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment, 1986; it was patented in 1988. She co-founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness, 1976. She died #OTD in 2019.
#WomenInSTEM
Amélie Cabirol
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a
calm spirit. Do not lose your inward peace for
anything whatsoever, even if your whole world
seems upset.
~ Francis de Sales
Je Shen (China b. 1973)