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Eric Topol

@erictopol.bsky.social

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physician-scientist, author, editor

https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/
Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com
SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666

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Eric Jeffrey Topol is an American cardiologist, scientist, and author. He is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, a professor of Molecular Medicine and Executive Vice-President at Scripps Research Institute, and a senior consultant at the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California. .. more

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · May 27

A new cover for SUPER AGERS after making the NYT bestseller list. Thanks to you for making it the #1 ranked new non-fiction book on Amazon.
amazon.com/gp/new-relea...

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 14h

AI and the New Science of Medicine
today @nejm.org
"the science of medicine is ready for reinvention"
"AI generates hypotheses, but those hypotheses are tested the old-fashioned way, avoiding the myriad statistical problems of relying on AI alone for discovery."
nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Bedside to Bench — AI and the New Science of Medicine | NEJM

Today, medical research builds up an understanding of the whole from molecular parts, but artificial intelligence can revive an approach building down from patient-level data to theory and understa...

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 14h

Today's NYT front page.
A methodical quest and the latest salvo

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 1d

One proposed strategy to promote a youthful immune system and human healthspan is to rejuvenate our thymus gland. Can we learn from this exceptional (and peculiar looking) vertebrate that can do this?
science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Reposted by Karen O’Leary

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 1d

The direct causal evidence of ultra-processed foods for adverse health outcomes is accruing
nature.com/articles/s41...

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 1d

How do the metabolic waste products get cleared from our brain? And how does this process intersect with the brain's immune system?
An exceptional review by
@jonykipnis.bsky.social
and colleagues
cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Resolving the mysteries of brain clearance and immune surveillance

This review by Kipnis et al. explores recent advances in brain fluid dynamics, emphasizing CSF flow’s role in waste clearance, the glymphatic and meningeal lymphatic systems, and neuroimmune interacti...

cell.com

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 2d

Today.
"Or they simply don't know what they are doing"
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 2d

A new review of post-infection syndromes, including #LongCovid, and its diverse immunologic manifestations www.cell.com/trends/immun... by @virusesimmunity.bsky.social and colleagues