Julio Licinio

This place used to have so much more #FluorescenceFriday. It's sad to see that scientists no longer feel comfortable on Twitter, not even to share some fluorescence art. I will continue to post here, hoping to inspire others to love and share microscopy as much as I do. ❤️🔬

🧵 THREAD 👇 Meet Xuyu Qian (@UPennMedicine), the neuroscientist who went from watching anime to mapping 18 MILLION brain cells! 🧠✨Born in Nanjing 🇨🇳, now a Forbes 30 Under 30 laureate in Philadelphia, he credits Evangelion for sparking his biotech passion: "It transformed how…

The mechanisms by which ultra-processed foods (UPF) drive obesity, an outstanding review article "the evidence is sufficiently strong to justify immediate public health efforts to reduce UPF consumption." nature.com/articles/s4157…

Delighted to publish our review article on the generative era of medical AI in Cell! w/ @EricTopol JohnFahrner and Emma Chen

Very thought provoking paper! Identification of proliferating neural progenitors in the adult human hippocampus | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🧵THREAD 👇 🧬NEW RESEARCH: How genetic risk scores predict psychiatric treatment outcomes A comprehensive review in Genomic Psychiatry examined how polygenic scores (PGS) for depression and bipolar disorder influence treatment response across major psychiatric conditions.…

🧵-Thread 🧠🚀 Unlocking the Brain’s Aging Clock| 2025 Nature First Author Stanford PhD candidate Eric Sun has accepted a faculty position at MIT, where he will launch his own lab. In this exclusive interview, Sun explains how single-cell AI is rewriting our understanding of…

🧵 Published in @BrainMedJournal: Can viruses rewire our brains? 🧠 Brazilian neuroscientist Dr. Danielle Beckman's groundbreaking research reveals how COVID-19 and other viruses trigger rapid neurological changes! (1/9) #Neurovirology #BrainHealth #COVIDResearch 👇

Tsinghua University is now ranked by US News & World Report as 11th Best Global University, just behind Columbia, tied with Imperial College, and ahead of UCLA. Their motto is: SELF DISCIPLINE - SOCIAL COMMITMENT.

After 14 years our Nature Medicine paper on Translational Medicine finally attained Open Access through Pubmed Central (PMC). Better late than never! Very positively the message is still current and topical. Here is the Open Access link. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12…

🧵THREAD 🚨 New research in @GenomPsychiatry from @PittTweet reveals how early brain development in infants can predict changes in emotionality and emotional regulation! (1/7) 🧠👶 📄🔓Open Access: doi.org/10.61373/gp025… 👇

Brain Medicine: Sophia Shi's Genomic Press Interview, in Romanian: romedic.ro/glicocalixul-c… Original interview in English: doi.org/10.61373/bm025…

🧬Revolutionary: First publisher with a FREE Open Access Virtual Library for ALL our journals. No paywalls. No barriers. 📚 Explore our library: issues.genomicpress.com/bookcase/gtvov 🌎 Learn more: genomicpress.kglmeridian.com Knowledge without borders. Science for everyone. #OpenAccess #FreeSci

🧵THREAD 🚨 Did you know childhood trauma can have lifelong effects on brain health? 🧠 Dr. Sara Poletti's groundbreaking research reveals how early adversity shapes mental health through neuroinflammation. (1/8) 📄🔓 Read the Open Access Interview by Dr. Sara Poletti in…

🧵 THREAD 🚨 Exciting breakthroughs in gut-brain interaction research! 🌱Dr. Erin Mauney explores how psychedelics like psilocybin could revolutionize treatment for gut-brain disorders. 🧠💊 (1/7) #GutBrainAxis #PsychedelicResearch #HealthInnovation 👇

🧵THREAD: Psychiatry pioneer Dr. John M. Oldham reveals how he transformed personality disorder diagnosis from rigid categories to dimensional understanding over 50 years! 🧠 His groundbreaking work reshaped how we understand and treat complex mental health conditions. (1/8)…

🧵In a compelling Genomic Press Interview published today in Brain Medicine, Sophia Shi, PhD, unveils her pioneering research that fundamentally changes our understanding of brain aging and opens revolutionary therapeutic pathways for Alzheimer's disease and related…

In a comprehensive Genomic Press Interview published today, Dr. Stephen Ross, a leading figure in psychedelic medicine at New York University (NYU), reveals how a serendipitous conversation in 2006 launched his journey into investigating psychedelic compounds as potential…

Genomic Psychiatry Issue 3, Volume 1 (May 2025) is now fully published online. The entire issue is freely available here: issues.genomicpress.com/books/kujm/ You can also access the issue through our Open Access Virtual Library at: issues.genomicpress.com/bookcase/gtvov