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Jun 28, 2020 7 tweets 7 min read Read on X
Switching gears from covid-centric to #cancer, where there have been a flurry of important papers in the past week
1. "Our discovery of #lesionsegregation challenges longstanding assumptions of cancer evolution"
nature.com/articles/s4158… @nature
media.nature.com/original/magaz… @NatureNews Image
2. 2 new papers on clonal hematopoiesis, which is associated with increased risk of cancer and heart disease
nature.com/articles/s4158…
nature.com/articles/s4158… ImageImage
3. 2 reports on using methylomes to detect or track cancer, one using plasma tDNA for brain tumors, the other urine and plasma for kidney cancer
@NatureMedicine
nature.com/articles/s4159…
nature.com/articles/s4159… ImageImage
4. The use of patient-derived tumor cell clusters to understand the biology of an individual's cancer and rapidly test drug therapies @ScienceTM
stm.sciencemag.org/content/12/549… Image
5. Patient-specific genomic variant monitoring of cancer via plasma circulating tDNA
stm.sciencemag.org/content/12/548… @ScienceTM
6. The potential for fasting to favorably modulate the course of cancer in a randomized trial of 131 patients with breast cancer
nature.com/articles/s4146… ImageImage
A nice update on use of extracellular RNA as a diagnostic for cancer and beyond
by @ElieDolgin @NatureOutlook
nature.com/articles/d4158… Image

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Dec 9
We're learning how to control the immune response, like a rheostat, even in the brain. Implications for understanding the basis and potential treatment of autoimmune conditions like multiple sclerosis, #LongCovid, #MECFS, and brain cancer.
A brief review of 6 recent, important reports
in the new Ground Truths, open-accessImage
Such as Programming T cells with brain-specific proteins and payloads
@ScienceMagazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Or peptide fragments of myelin basic protein that suppress the immune response @Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…Image
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Nov 13
New @NEJM
A whopping (~90%) reduction of progression to Type 2 diabetes with tirzepatide (GLP-1 drug, dual receptor) vs placebo in a randomized trial of >2,500 participants with obesity, absolute reduction of 10/100 treated

by @AniaJastreboff and collaboratorsnejm.org/doi/full/10.10…Image
In other GLP-1 new publications today
—Country-wide Sweden reduced hospitalizations for alcohol or substance abuse with these drugs
jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap… @JAMAPsych
—Concerns about discontinuation
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… @JAMA_current Image
Other new anti-obesity drugs in the pipeline, one that also increases energy expenditure
@NatureNV nature.com/articles/d4158…Image
Read 4 tweets
Nov 13
A dedicated issue of @ScienceTM on #LongCovid
—Sex-specific differences, with perspective by @VirusesImmunity and @SilvaJ_C
—Insights for therapies @AndreaCoxMDPhD
—Deconvoluting "Osler's Web" @MichaelPelusoMD @DeeksSteven @DrMaureenHanson @SaydahSharon
—+RECOVER Trial, Lyme diseaseImage
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Where we have failed to date: finding an effective therapy. That has to change
science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…Image
Read 4 tweets
Oct 19
An elegant @Nature study by @AkassoglouLab has illuminated our understanding of the role of fibrin (component of blood clots), #SARSCoV2, and brain inflammation in Covid and #LongCovid.
This discovery and more in the new Ground Truths podcast, with transcript, key figures (such as as the one below) and citations. Open-access. Link in my profile.Image
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A clip from our conversation. Unknowingly, @AkassoglouLab was gearing up for understanding this complex pathophysiology for many years before Covid hit
For treatment, it's not just as simple as preventing fibrin clots. It's isolating the pro-inflammatory action of fibrin, targeted by the antibody
Read 4 tweets
Oct 9
Covid and increased risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) 3-years out

2-fold increased for any severity of Covid
~4-fold increase for Covid requiring hospitalization
"a coronary artery disease equivalent"
interaction with non-O blood types
@uk_biobankahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/AT…Image
"A major finding from our analyses was that the risk
of MACE among the subset of hospitalized COVID-
19 cases without known CVD (ie, primary prevention
patients) was comparable to (or even slightly higher than) the risk in patients with CVD, PAD, or diabetes but without COVID-19."
"one of the first examples of a gene-pathogen exposure interaction for thrombotic events"
I think it's the first one documented, likely others to be unraveled
Read 4 tweets
Aug 2
New US Covid genomic surveillance
The KP.3.1.1 variant is on the move to become dominant, more of a challenge to our immune response than KP.3 and prior variants (especially without new KP.2 booster when we need it for high-risk individuals) Image
It's the deletion 31/31 that makes the KP.3.1.1 spike different, but otherwise 2 mutations away from KP.2 (R346T and Q493E) Image
Buckle up; this wave isn't over yet d/t KP.3.1.1's emergence
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