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Genetically altered astrocytes that express chimeric antigen receptors offer a promising immunotherapy system capable of clearing accumulations of amyloid-β in the brains of mice—a hallmark pathological feature of #AlzheimersDisease, according to a new study in Science. 📄: scim.ag/3NjPIfP #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/4rgI1oL

What’s frustrating as a physician on social media is when you have fun content ideas to provide meaningful medical education to your audience, but then a powerful idiot starts mass diagnosing something fake like “mitochondrial challenges” while people watching at the airport, so then you’re like ok I guess I have to deal with this now

Leonard Rome’s lab discovered an odd, abundant component of cells in the 1980s—and he’s still trying to figure out what it does. Learn more in this @NewsfromScience feature: scim.ag/40arg4a #ScienceMagArchives

A group of #OUHCOM students is on Capitol Hill today, advocating for policies and initiatives that will improve the lives of DOs, osteopathic medical students and patients. We're proud of our students representing the osteopathic profession and making their voices heard. #DODay25

European Neanderthals ate fresh seafood, which may have given their brains a boost - The recent excavation of a cave site along Portugal’s coast revealed a wealth of fossilized remains of food, including fish, birds and mammals. It’s estimated that Neanderthals lived in the cave, known as Figueira Brava, between 86,000-106,000 years ago. The discovery sheds light on Neanderthal populations who relied on the sea as a source of food, in addition to hunting and gathering on land – a much different picture than those who were hunting mammoths in bitterly cold climates. These Neanderthals enjoyed a diverse diet. From the sea, they could feast on limpet, mussels, clams, brown crabs, spider crabs, sharks, eels, sea breams, mullets, dolphins and seals. Marine birds also included mallards, common scoters (a large sea duck), geese, cormorants, gannets, shags, auks, egrets and loons. On land, they hunted red deer, goats, horses, tortoises and aurochs, an extinct wild ox. They supplemented with plants like remnants of olive and fig trees as well as pine nuts taken from pine trees. Neanderthals living in Italy and across the Iberian Peninsula likely would have followed a similar lifestyle with a Mediterranean climate. In fact, the amount and diversity of marine fossils found in the cave exceeds other more recent sites. This suggests that Neanderthals were comfortable and practiced at catching seafood. Previously, this level of adaptability was only associated with modern humans living in southern Africa at the same time. “Figueira Brava provides the first record of significant marine resource consumption among Europe’s Neanderthals,” the researchers wrote in the study. For researchers, it’s another way of narrowing gap between modern humans and Neanderthals. Some researchers believe that the introduction of seafood into the diet of early modern humans helped their cognitive development because of Omega-3 fatty acids and other brain-boosting nutrients. That contributed to cultural and technological developments that led them to migrate out of Africa and spread across the globe. “If this common consumption of marine resources played an important role in the development of cognitive skills, it did so on the entire humanity, including Neanderthals, and not only the African population that spread later,” said João Zilhão, study author and Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies researcher at the University of Barcelona. In recent years, researchers have uncovered proof that “Neanderthals had a symbolic material culture,” Zilhão said. Zilhão published a study two years ago about 65,000-year-old cave paintings found in three caves on the Iberian Peninsula that are credited to Neanderthals. This aligns with another discovery of pendants and shells colored with pigments, also thought to be the work of Neanderthals. But why has it taken so long to establish that Neanderthals adapted to coastal living? The researchers suggest that it’s because many of the caves they would have used are likely beneath the sea now, due to a rise in sea level over time. In 2020, a separate analysis of clam shells and volcanic rocks from an Italian cave shows that Neanderthals collected shells and pumice from beaches. And due to specific indicators on some of the shells, the researchers also believe Neanderthals waded and dove into the ocean to retrieve shells, meaning they may have been able to swim. There was evidence that the shells were shaped by stones to make them thin, sharp and resilient. The shells were dated to between 90,000 to 100,000 years ago. This is before the arrival of modern humans in the Western Europe region. This aligns with evidence from another study suggesting that some Neanderthals suffered from “surfer’s ear,” based on bony growths found on the ears belonging to a few Neanderthal skeletons. #archaeohistories

There are 19 physicians currently serving in Congress. New study from @danielrskinner and colleagues constructs a novel dataset from 1973-2021 and finds that compared with other members, physicians are more legislatively effective on health policy. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Vaccines do not cause autism and this has been proven over and over and over again. One fake study by a now former physician with manipulated data is not going to ever change this fact. Vaccines do not cause autism.

How doing a literature review feels

Medical toxicologist and clinical epidemiologist here. None of this is true.

Así es como se mueven tus pies, con todas sus articulaciones en acción. Es impresionante la maravilla biomecánica del cuerpo humano. Podría ver esto una y otra vez, y seguiría asombrado. 😍

Heraklion Museum, recent visit. Pluto & Persephone as Isis & Serapis. Religious syncretism. Cerberus remains as Cerberus! C2nd AD Temple of Egyptian Deities, Gortyn

Nerve Palsies of the Hand. 🖐️

Atrial septal defect device closure.

Fascinating video of kidney transplant done via robot !!

Brachial plexus

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The @OUHCOM Dublin Spring Celebration & Volleyball Tourney. The Beta Blockers were the champs! @AACOMmunities

The newly minted PhD, Elena Watson, being celebrated by her OMS1 small group. Congratulations! 🎉💚🤍🎓⁦@OUHCOM⁩ ⁦@ohiou⁩

We welcomed the #OUHCOM Class of 2027 last Friday during Convocation. We're so proud of this talented group of future physicians. Check out these photos from the memorable day!