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Felix Viana

@neuroviana.bsky.social

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Neuroscientist fascinated by #ionchannels Studying #pain mechanisms. Fan of world travel, #hiking , the oceans and good books. I co-direct the Sensory Transduction and Nociception Group at the Institute of #Neurosciences in Alicante (Spain)

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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · Nov 16

I am migrating away from X and his toxic and dangerous owner. I hope to rebuild a nice community of followers in this new environment.

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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 4d

Walking up?? I need to wake up too!!

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#caturday Walking up

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Javi Burgos @javisburgos.bsky.social · 4d

Majo ha montado una librería en el Cabanyal.
Majo la ha llamado Terramar, como la saga de K. Leguin.
Dice Majo que es uno de los pocos negocios que quedan en un barrio cada vez más gentrificado.
La librería de Majo es preciosa y la podéis seguir en IG @terramarllibreria
Id a comprar libros a Majo.

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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 4d

Saturday is market day.

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Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH @neuroalc.bsky.social · 8d

👏 Congrats to @neuroalc.bsky.social researchers named in Stanford’s ranking of the world’s most cited scientists: Carlos Belmonte, @borrell-lab.bsky.social , @jlerma1.bsky.social , Salvador Martínez, @nietoangela.bsky.social & @neuroviana.bsky.social , outstanding global impact in neuroscience!

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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 11d

#caturday siesta time! #cats

Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 24d

Siesta time! #caturday

Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · 27d

Well deserved recognition for overlooked research on a critical ion channel #CysticFibrosis with devatating consequences when not working properly. Great day for the ion channel field; translational research with a solid basic science foundation. I hope they are recognized with the Nobel Prize soon.

JAMA @jama.com · 27d

In this Medical News podcast episode, pulmonologist Michael J. Welsh, MD, co-recipient of the 2025 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, discusses future directions for #CysticFibrosis treatment.

#LaskerAward #Lasker2025 @laskerfdn.bsky.social

➡️ Listen now:

How Did Cystic Fibrosis Go From Fatal to Treatable?

Pulmonologist Michael J. Welsh, MD, is the co-recipient of the 2025 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for his research on cystic fibrosis. In this interview, he discusses his early clinical encounters with the disease, the foundational work that led to the lifesaving drug Trikafta, and future directions for cystic fibrosis treatment.

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Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH @neuroalc.bsky.social · Sep 8

We now know all the photos participating in this year’s edition!
Support your favorites by liking, commenting, or retweeting. Find them all with the hashtag #SciencePhoto_IN
Don’t forget the deadline to vote for the Public Award: September 15!
@csic.es @umh.es @dicv.csic.es @csicdivulga.bsky.social

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Idoia Quintana-Urzainqui @idoiaeu.bsky.social · Sep 2

🧠🦈Excited to present our latest work🧠🦈Interested in brain evolution? And shark embryos? Then read on… Our work sheds light on the deep origins of our brain’s most complex regions.

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Pacific Optica @pacificoptica.bsky.social · Aug 20

Check out some sweet Ventana Wide + Cousa imaging.
pacificoptica.com/ventana/

Live raw data over a 3.2 mm wide field-of-view with 16,000 lines/s scanning and submicron resolution. Demo now at @omibs-mbl.bsky.social

Thx @ewadorotaz.bsky.social @mbfbioscience.bsky.social @crisrodtsou.bsky.social !

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Aug 27

A genetic flip helped turn us into upright walkers. Here’s my evo-devo story about the ilium. Gift link: nyti.ms/45BOenz

An engraving of the pelvis from Gray’s Anatomy.

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mheming.bsky.social @mheming.bsky.social · Aug 24

Very proud that our human PNS atlas is finally published in @natcomms.nature.com We found perineurial hyperplasia and lipid-associated nerve macrophages in #polyneuropathies.
Explore: pns-atlas.mzhlab.com
A tweetorial 1/13
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · Aug 24

RIP Jim Hudspeth, one of the fathers of the mechanobiology of hearing

www.ted.com/talks/jim_hu...

Jim Hudspeth: The beautiful, mysterious science of how you hear

Have you ever wondered how your ears work? In this delightful and fascinating talk, biophysicist Jim Hudspeth demonstrates the wonderfully simple yet astonishingly powerful mechanics of hair cells, th...

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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · Aug 23

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Soapy @soapy2019.bsky.social · Aug 23

He acknowledges the conflict ,but his clear message is our continued contamination of all aspects of life with plastic is unsustainable.

The Trashiest Studio Visit | Thomas Deininger

YouTube video by Ethan Cohen Gallery

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Soapy @soapy2019.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!

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Journal of General Physiology @jgp.org · Aug 22

Espinoza-Arcos and González-Avendaño et al. identify a peripheral PIP2-binding site conserved across TRP channels using coarse-grained #MolecularDynamics simulations. rupress.org/jgp/article/...

#Lipids #ComputationalBiology #IonChannels

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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · Aug 21

Dune does not look particularly worried about her visit to the vet. #catlife #cats

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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · Aug 19

I shall introduce Dune, our new family member, to all of you. Besides sleeping many hours, she has been exploring every single corner of our apartment. So far, the antennae of the spiny lobster is one of her favourite toys #cats #catlife

Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · Aug 17

Treating Chronic Pain Is Hard. An Experimental Approach Shows Promise. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/h...

Treating Chronic Pain Is Hard. An Experimental Approach Shows Promise.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 17

Too often, I see people talk about a replication as if the first study has established something, and the replication study is a double-check. What people often fail to understand is that we do not do replication studies to *check* a finding, but to *establish* a finding. 1/x

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Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · Aug 16

Good question. Dry eye disease is a multifaceted condition. We should not assume that it will work in every case. But worth testing !! 😻

Felix Viana @neuroviana.bsky.social · Aug 16

It is also a vivid reminder of how difficult it is to translate a basic discovery into a useful therapy.
2002 cloning of TRPM8
2010 demonstration that TRPM8 sustains basal tearing
2024 COMET-2 and COMET-3 trials showed that M8 agonist significantly increased tear production
2025 FDA approves drug

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