Avraham Cooper
Pulm/Crit physician, medical educator, The Curious Clinicians podcast
FORTHCOMING BOOK: WHY DOESN’T YOUR STOMACH DIGEST ITSELF? (W.W. Norton)
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- If you think you’re tough, consider the tardigrade… In 2007, 3,000 of these tiny animals orbited the Earth OUTSIDE a space rocket for 12 days. >2/3 of them survived the vacuum of space and being blasted with solar radiation. www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
- First bladder transplant in history! So cool 😎 t.co/Mvyf1Qw7bK
- This really feels like science fiction- a bespoke CRISPR gene editing treatment for a baby with a urea cycle disorder www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
- Thank you so much to @corewellhealth.bsky.social and Dr Steve Doyle for the invitation to speak on the art of medicine at their annual education and research day!
- Yeesh - if Pseudomonas wasn’t a bad enough actor already, it also apparently secretes an enzyme that degrades plastic www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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- This story really blew my mind - that alpha-gal could be an entirely new way to treat cancer using immunotherapy
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- This is such a good album and a monumental achievement!!!
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- 1/THREAD As the old idiom goes, one deliberately causes additional pain by "pouring/rubbing salt in an open wound". But this is also literally true. Physiologically, why would it hurt so much to have salt poured into a wound?
- I’m always amazed by our similarities and homologies with bacteria. Our version of a foreign nucleic acid sensor called STING, which activates interferon, is almost identical to the version that bacteria use to sense and defend against viruses. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Very interesting and insightful perspective on whether zoster vaccines reduce dementia risk from @chrisworsham.com and Bapu Jena t.co/EBUyx3kRbT
- The mechanism of petrichor explained!
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- I love this episode… why does freshly fallen rain smell so good??
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- Was truly an honor to give this talk for OSU Internal Medicine Grand Rounds. In times of uncertainty, curiosity and humanism can help us find joy as clinicians.
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- My writing website is live! Huge thank you to the endlessly talented Miriam Hiersteiner for designing it www.avrahamcooper.com
- Excited to share a little piano piece I wrote and presented at the 2025 OSU College of Medicine Arts Festival!! medartsgallery.squarespace.com/work/cooper
- Classic but very cool study. Does aspirin reduce the risk of cancer metastases? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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- Crazy cool study investigating alpha-gal gene therapy for refractory solid cancers (leading the immune system to ‘reject’ the cancer like an organ transplant) www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- This was a fun episode! Imaging the future of insulin therapy.
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- Thrilled to have my essay on the serendipitous history of Botox and how it relates to the doctor-patient relationship published by @medpagetoday.bsky.social today! www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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