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Kent Willis MD

@KentWillisMD

Assist Prof Neonatologist Physician-Scientist @uabpeds | Board Certified Neo & Peds | K08 @nih_nhlbi & CDA @AHAScience | gut-lung axis | he/him | @LabLung

 Birmingham, AL
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Joined February 2011
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And we live to fight another day.
Notice of a grant award for an NIH R03

ALT Notice of a grant award for an NIH R03

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Climate change may reshape paediatric lung-function trajectories by acting during developmental windows via impaired fetal growth, reduced postnatal lung growth and exacerbation-related step-down events. Clinicians can act through climate-sensitive care. bit.ly/3VdUC1u
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Isaac Saul
@Ike_SaulOct 25
Nancy Pelosi, who is regularly hammered for her perceived insider trading, has made 213 total trades since 2014. Trump exceeded that number in a single day, which just happened to precede his own tariffs announcement. My latest on the mind boggling self-enrichment:
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Roshan Rinaldi
@Roshan_RinaldiOct 24
JD Vance YESTERDAY: "We have underestimated Iran and we spent $30 billion on war." Obama TODAY: "All this to stop a nuke that didn’t exist and to open a Strait that wasn’t closed."
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New in Science #Immunology: With human datasets and mouse models, researchers trace the molecular axis that regulates antitumor activity in ILC2 innate lymphoid cells. @SeoulNatlUni scim.ag/3VQx6rT
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Marcus Böhme@BoehmeMarcusOct 23
Gut-derived glucagon-like peptides attenuate T cell-induced intestinal injury @DanielJDrucker cell.com/cell-reports-medici…
Gut-derived glucagon-like peptides attenuate T cell-induced intestinal injury

Gut-derived glucagon-like peptides attenuate T cell-induced intestinal injury

Koehler et al. demonstrate distinct physiological roles for GLP-1R and GLP-2R signaling in protecting the intestine from αCD3-induced enteropathy. Conversely, GLP-1R/GLP-2R agonists, administered...

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Hunter Biden
@HunterBidenOct 22
What about my paintings again?
VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) profile pictureVANITY FAIR
@VanityFairOct 22
Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million In Transfers vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed More Than $700 Million in Transfers

The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed More Than $700 Million in Transfers

An exclusive excerpt from ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’ examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former...

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James D Chalmers
@ProfJDChalmersOct 21
Everything you wanted to know about single cell multi-omics in one place- just published in ERJ @ERSpublications
Naftali Kaminski (@KaminskiMed) profile pictureNaftali Kaminski@KaminskiMedOct 21
Our "Single-cell multi-omics in IPF & COPD: from atlas to impact" is out! We provide a brief guide to analytic approaches, an overview of how the technologies impact our understanding of the 2 diseases, limitations, future directions. A 🧵 will follow publications.ersnet.org/cont…
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Shai Bel@Mucus_ManOct 19
🚨🚨 When we take antibiotics we assume they'll kill the bad bugs but won't affect us directly. In our new story @NatureMicrobiol , we found that's not always the case and developed a tool, CompoRes, to identify these direct effects on the host /1 nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
Disentangling microbiota-dependent and -independent impacts of antibiotics on host physiology

Disentangling microbiota-dependent and -independent impacts of antibiotics on host physiology

Nature Microbiology - Using a computational tool called CompoRes, the authors show that antibiotics can alter feeding behaviour, immunity and circadian regulation, revealing a non-microbial pathway...

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CFP
@CFBPlayoffOct 16
"HOMECOMING. BALLGAME. BLAZERS." @UAB_FB wins the game with a pick-six in OT! 📺 ESPN x @American_Conf
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Cuckturd@CattardSlimOct 15
Breaking: Elon's doing it again.
Polymarket (@Polymarket) profile picturePolymarket
@PolymarketOct 15
BREAKING: Computer glitch reportedly delays nearly 600,000 voter registrations in Texas, just days before early voting begins for the midterm elections.
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Kent Willis MD@KentWillisMDOct 6
If I send you this, you’ve f’ed around and you’re going to find out when I get around to it:
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@NatureOct 13
Nature research paper: Alveolar stem cells transdifferentiate to drive bronchiolar regeneration go.nature.com/4yX2XWB
Alveolar stem cells transdifferentiate to drive bronchiolar regeneration

Alveolar stem cells transdifferentiate to drive bronchiolar regeneration

Nature - Identification of a cross-compartmental cellular mechanism for bronchiolar epithelial repair informs therapeutic strategies for airway injury.

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Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) profile picture
Eyal Yakoby
@EYakobyOct 13
As many of us have been saying, Russia is behind a massive psychological operation to divide America.
R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) profile pictureR A W S A L E R T S
@rawsalertsOct 12
🚨 #BREAKING: Traffic plunges on U.S. political subreddits after Ukrainian strike on Russian datacenters.
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Eyal Yakoby
@EYakobyOct 13
Tucker Carlson’s views dropped 71%. Let that sink in.
Matt Tardio (@angertab) profile pictureMatt Tardio
@angertabOct 13
Following Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers: Tucker Carlson's views dropped 71% Douglas Macgregor's views dropped 62% TCN views dropped 34%
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Absofuckinglutely.
Eugene (@ScienceDJX) profile pictureEugene
@ScienceDJXOct 12
Do you think X knew how badly Russia was messing with USA political accounts?
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Doc 
@DocAtCDIOct 12
Someone called Ukraine’s Bombing of Russian Bot Farms “Operation: Quiet Piggy" now I cant unhear that
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Neil Stone
@DrNeilStoneOct 12
Mentions of the word "Fauci" on X have fallen off a cliff since the data centres in Russia were hit Makes you wonder...
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BREAKING NEWS: After Ukraine takes out Russian data centers Elon Musk loses 100M followers.
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If confirmed, this is telling: Russian data centres get hit, and online activity around AfD suddenly plummets. 📉 So much talk about German patriotism… then the connection from Russia goes down. 🤔🇷🇺
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What a fucking headline! Well done @Telegraph
The Telegraph (@Telegraph) profile pictureThe Telegraph
@TelegraphOct 10
🔴 Trump backstabs Zelensky for five minutes of midterm relief telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/…
Trump backstabs Zelensky for five minutes of midterm relief

Trump backstabs Zelensky for five minutes of midterm relief

Deal with Putin for Russia’s oil might soften the markets but Ukraine will pay the price

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