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Alex Banks

@bankslab.bsky.social
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Academic scientist with a passion for all things metabolism. And also (strangely) the sport of fencing. Lab: research.bidmc.org/alexander-banks. Energy Balance Core: shorturl.at/kCHN1

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Nature Metabolism @natmetabolism.nature.com · 12/10/2025
REVIEW | A consensus guide to preclinical indirect calorimetry experiments 🧪 @bankslab.bsky.social et al Researchers establish consensus standards for indirect calorimetry experiments
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A consensus guide to preclinical indirect calorimetry experiments - Nature Metabolism
The authors highlight inconsistencies and divergencies in the literature reporting data on indirect calorimetry for studies on whole-body energy homeostasis, and propose harmonization of standards to facilitate data comparison and interpretation across different datasets.
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Alex Banks @bankslab.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
🧵1/15 Delighted to share our study on the naked mole-rat (NMR): a mammal with bizarre thermal biology, notorious longevity, and cancer resistance. But how do NMRs maintain (or fail to maintain) their body temperature? Our latest work digs deep! #ThermalBiology #Thermogenesis
Picture of a naked mole-rat in a fleece bed
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Sable Systems @sablesys.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
@bankslab.bsky.social just presented an amazing talk at an IMPC workshop, outlining the long-overdue standardization of metabolic & activity data. At long last, the end of the poisoning of data by poor measurement techniques, equipment & analyses is in sight. Congratulations, Alex & colleagues! 🧪
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Alex Banks @bankslab.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
🧪#metabosky #calorimetry The world of indirect calorimetry just got better. Our team is nearly ready to launch a new version of CalR. A beta version of CalR2 is available at CalRapp.org. New features include improved visualizations, quality control analysis, statistical power calcs and more. ✔️it out
The plot shows four time series plots. On top is a visualization from the original CalR, with one data point every 60 minutes. Next down is a plot with data every 3 minutes. Next data every 3 minutes but with a rolling mean smoothing fuction. These data look much cleaner. Finally data smoothed every 60 minutes.
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Alex Banks @bankslab.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
In-person today at 3pm: First ever joint BIDMC and Joslin Diabetes Center event for #WorldDiabetesDay2023
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