Eric Topol
physician-scientist, author, editor. Ground Truths: https://t.co/YhatcBT0hA
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A series of impressive papers @cellhostmicrobe on the role of the gut microbiome in health and disease. Will just highlight 3 here 1. Impact on cognition https://t.co/BeFRpS5vAp ht...
Precision mapping of a gut-brain circuit w/ functional impact. Glands in the small intestine (Brunner's) have GLP-1 receptors, are stress-sensitive, connect to the brain via the v...
Two new papers @NatureMedicine and @JAMAInternalMed shed light on #LongCovid at 2-years. But there's no shortage of known unknowns. Reviewed in a new Ground Truths (link in my prof...
A third of people are Blood Group A. #SARSCoV2 preferentially infects these cells "providing a direct link between ABO blood group expression and [Covid] infection" https://t.co/Y...
Brief update on Omicron, and its BA.1 and BA.2 lineages (sisters) 1. Originβthe 3 theories for how this hyper-mutated version of the virus evolved https://t.co/EbdeY3AH8O @nature h...
B.1.617 has an E484Q mutation (unlike E484K "Eek" found in 3 of the other VOCs). Correcting this table; key mutations are listed in 1st post https://t.co/GNpKhZsizq
This @AstraZeneca statement in response to the @NIH press release is unacceptable. They know exactly what is going on w/r to the time cutoff for 1Β° analysis, which appears to be at...
1. Asymptomatic #SARSCoV2 carriers after vaccines, as aptly drawn by @nataliexdean (adapted @TheEconomist) Even w/ the most highly effective vaccines (below), there'll likely be c...
This will go down in history as one of science and medical research's greatest achievements. Perhaps the most impressive. I put together a preliminary timeline of some key mileston...
Just published @CellCellPress: From 60 patients convalesced from #COVID19, single-cell sequencing of their B cells-> 14 potent neutralizing monoclonal antibodies. With 1 #3D crysta...
Today, Tony Fauci highlighted how more we need to learn about children w/ #COVID19 https://t.co/WH59g5bT3J Reviewing some things we do know here: 1. It can be deadly, in healthy ki...
A bit about children with #COVID19. 1. It's very true that they're much less likely to get very sick https://t.co/tIA6YelbLV by @wsj_douglasj https://t.co/tganMvu0QF