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Charlotte Harrison

@charlotteh560.bsky.social
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Freelance science writer

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Charlotte Harrison @charlotteh560.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
My first story for @natmed.nature.com How inflammation drives cardiovascular disease and how clinicians are finding ways to detect and treat it. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Taming the inflamed heart
From artificial intelligence-enhanced scans to drugs that target the immune system, inflammation is emerging as a key driver of cardiovascular risk — and clinicians are learning to detect and treat it...
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Charlotte Harrison @charlotteh560.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Targeting IL-33 could act more widely on COPD inflammatory pathways than current therapies - my latest for @natbiotech.nature.com rdcu.be/fld8G
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Newcomer anti-IL-33 makes strides in COPD
Nature Biotechnology - AstraZeneca’s IL-33 antibody tozorakimab targets two distinct signaling pathways engaged in COPD: inflammation and epithelial dysfunction.
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Charlotte Harrison @charlotteh560.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Researchers are increasingly using organ chips and organoids alongside or instead of animals to model drug safety, biological mechanisms and rare diseases. My latest for Lab Animal @natureportfolio.nature.com rdcu.be/eH7Pj With insight from @nc3rs.bsky.social @emulatebio.bsky.social and others
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New approach methodologies gain momentum, providing human-relevant alternatives to animal models
Lab Animal - Researchers are increasingly using organ-on-chips and organoids alongside or instead of animals to model drug safety, biological mechanisms and rare diseases.
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Charlotte Harrison @charlotteh560.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Can amylin-based drugs upstage GLP-1 agonists? They could avoid muscle loss and gastrointestinal side effects of current obesity therapies. My latest for @natbiotech.nature.com rdcu.be/ezwbM
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Can amylin-based drugs upstage GLP-1 agonists?
Nature Biotechnology - Analogs of the pancreatic peptide hormone amylin are making strides in obesity as developers zoom in on oral drugs that can emulate or even improve on injectable GLP-1...
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 19/05/2025
Biopharma dives into tumor-seeking radioactive drugs www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Biopharma dives into tumor-seeking radioactive drugs - Nature Biotechnology
Big pharma and investors are piling into the precision radiation space as the next generation of increasingly potent targeted α-particle therapies promises to destroy cancerous cells with minimum dama...
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Charlotte Harrison @charlotteh560.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Hello Bluesky! Let’s try a first post…here’s my latest story for @naturebiotech.bsky.social on @vertexpharma.bsky.social non-opioid pain killer and next-gen NaV1.8 inhibitors in the pipeline rdcu.be/ealj0
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Vertex’s opioid-free drug for acute pain wins FDA approval
Nature Biotechnology - Society, patients and clinicians welcome a much-needed non-opioid pain medication. Vertex’s first-in-class analgesic Journavx could soon be followed by a new generation...
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