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TEDx talk: https://youtu.be/tpAYrz940L0 • @bioZone Narrator • @PainResearchForum Early Career Contributor • Rutgers > Penn > Pitt • A scientist in the making 🧠 • Creator of neurosci themed movie posters🎭🎬

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Colon cancer is on the rise in younger adults #shorts
YouTube video by bioZone Colon cancer is on the rise in younger adults #shorts

Colon cancer is on the rise in younger adults, and recent research suggests a microbe may be partially to blame 🦠

youtube.com/shorts/YDmRu...

31.08.2025 14:13 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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bioZone isn't just the name of your favorite educational youTube channel, its also an important strategy for geologists

watch on YouTube to support us 👇
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10.08.2025 13:05 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Modeling Withdrawal States in Opioid-Dependent Mice with Machine Learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667254v1

31.07.2025 18:20 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Science is by the people and for the people—yet so many don’t know they can access research papers for free!

Help spread the word beyond the science world 🌍📚

27.07.2025 14:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is an absolute masterpiece and a must read if you care at all about amygdala function bsky.app/profile/flyb...

24.07.2025 12:08 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Hot off the press 🔥 Big congrats to @jesswoj.bsky.social on her newly published paper — and for landing the cover ✨!! So proud to have been part of this ground breaking science!!

23.07.2025 21:35 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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This paper changed my life: Victoria Abraira on a tasty link between circuits and behavior The findings from Charles Zuker’s lab put the taste system on the map, revealing that some fundamental principles of behavior are hardwired.

Victoria Abraira reflects on a paper from Charles Zuker’s lab that made her wonder which aspects of somatosensory circuits are hardwired, which are plastic and how we can change them, in our latest “This paper changed my life.”

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...

22.07.2025 14:20 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
2 videos posted, 36 new subscribers, 6,163 total views and 4,987 minutes watched

2 videos posted, 36 new subscribers, 6,163 total views and 4,987 minutes watched

Here's our June progress!

20.07.2025 21:25 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

What a great all in one resource for all pain related research (clinical, translational, and basic)!!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

17.07.2025 19:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Check out our new, interactive website for preclinical and clinical pain researchers! Webinars, podcasts, interviews, job listings, meeting announcements, funding opportunities, Papers of the Week and more! painresearchforum.org

15.07.2025 23:13 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 2
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Are you excited to see our new, user-friendly PRF site? We are unveiling our new website TOMORROW where you can leave comments on any PRF content, including #news, #meetings, and #PapersoftheWeek!

14.07.2025 19:00 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Did you know that there are real animal versions of Pokemon? Dragalge is based on the Leafy seadragon ❗

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Thanks to Dr. Kelly Russo-Petrick for guest writing this script Follow Kelly @kellyrabbit.bsky.social or on Ig @ russokm1105

13.07.2025 12:46 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Who's that Pokemon?

Who's that Pokemon?

Did you know many Pokémon are inspired by real animals? We’ve collaborated with ecologist Dr. Kelly Russo-Petrick
@kellyrabbit.bsky.social to bring you a series of Pokémon videos.

Stay tuned for the next episode coming this Sunday!

Any guesses for our next featured Pokémon?

11.07.2025 20:38 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Pokémon’s in real life?! Check out video below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

06.07.2025 13:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Did you know that there are real animal versions of Pokemon?

Shout out to Fareeda for narrating her first bioZone video!

And thanks to Dr. Kelly Russo-Petrick for guest writing this script. Follow Kelly on ig @ russokm1105 or on bluesky @kellyrabbit.bsky.social

06.07.2025 12:02 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 2
who's that pokemon?

who's that pokemon?

Did you know many Pokémon are inspired by real animals? We’ve collaborated with ecologist Dr. Kelly Russo-Petrick @kellyrabbit.bsky.social to bring you a series of Pokémon videos. Stay tuned for the next episode coming this Sunday!

Any guesses for our next featured Pokémon?

04.07.2025 16:08 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Huge congrats to Dr. Lisa Wooldridge!

She crushed her PhD defense on central amygdala circuits in opioid dependence

Incredible science, relentless rigor, and a fearless approach to tough questions

So proud to be part of your journey, Lisa!

🧠🔥🎓🍾

01.07.2025 23:35 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Did you know that there are real animal versions of Pokemon? The Nincada evolutionary line is inspired by cicadas ‼️

Thanks to Dr. Kelly Russo-Petrick for guest writing this script. Follow Kelly on Instagram @russokm1105 or on Bluesky @kellyrabbit.bsky.social

29.06.2025 12:17 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

a 800-day weekend could fix me

23.06.2025 01:57 — 👍 2074    🔁 470    💬 62    📌 10
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I recently found these cool mushrooms in my backyard that looked a lot like zombie fingers 🍄

watch on YouTube to support us 👇
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15.06.2025 17:40 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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AxoDen: An Algorithm for the Automated Quantification of Axonal Density in Defined Brain Regions The rodent brain contains 70,000,000+ neurons interconnected via complex axonal circuits with varying architectures. Neural pathologies are often associated with anatomical changes in these axonal pro...

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Interested in a quick / reliable / reproducible tool to quantify your fluoresently-tagged axons ?

Check out AxoDen, a no-coding-needed web app and downloadable GUI ...

Designed + developed entriely by the amazing Raquel Adaia Sandoval Ortega

www.eneuro.org/content/12/6...

14.06.2025 13:02 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

go.bsky.app/BHKiN8b

13.06.2025 19:49 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🧠 🍄 ⚡️🐭

Now published in @natneuro.nature.com

Psilocybin enhances fear extinction by reshaping retrosplenial cortex ensembles—suppressing fear neurons, recruiting extinction neurons + boosting plasticity to enable behavioral flexibility

nature.com/articles/s4159…

26.05.2025 13:36 — 👍 99    🔁 25    💬 7    📌 1
A normal mouse brain sits next to a chemically cleared mouse brain.

A normal mouse brain sits next to a chemically cleared mouse brain.

Several studies in our lab involve chemically cleared brains. Finally took the time to have a photo shoot, so I can show in presentations. The cleared brain shines brightly ✨ under natural light.

23.05.2025 18:40 — 👍 63    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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High–resolution laminar recordings reveal structure–function relationships in monkey V1 The relationship between the structural properties of diverse neuronal populations in the monkey primary visual cortex (V1) and their functional visual processing in vivo remains a critical knowledge ...

On behalf of Nicole Carr: new preprint from the Chand/Moore labs! High-resolution laminar recordings reveal structure-function relationships in monkey V1.

1/4

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

19.05.2025 21:08 — 👍 58    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 1

It paralyzes your body, locks your jaw, and can stop your breathing — all from a scratch. Meet the killer protein lurking in the soil 🦠💀

Check out my latest video ⬇️

18.05.2025 13:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
spooky science: monster tumors #shorts
YouTube video by bioZone spooky science: monster tumors #shorts

was pleasantly surprised to find out a video we posted on tiktok went viral!! (185,000 views is considered viral for us 😌) If you haven't seen it yet- check out our video on monster tumors

youtube: youtube.com/shorts/4V0Gu...
tiktok: www.tiktok.com/@thebiozone/...

17.05.2025 19:47 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Coining the term “seminars tour” is so iconic ✨

16.05.2025 00:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🧠💰K99/R00 NoA day!

Huge congrats to Dr Blake Kimmey … #GameOn 🔥🍾🙌🏼

Gonna brag on this guy and say he’s on job market this year and he can bring this kinda cutting-edge placebo / pain / addiction systems-circuit neuro research to your department: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39803541/

07.05.2025 00:13 — 👍 26    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0
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A new medical illustration I made per request. I wish I could just do those all day.

#painscience
#neuroskyence
#physio
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04.05.2025 19:56 — 👍 72    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 0

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