Dr. Harini Bhat, PharmD

Archaeologists discover MULTIPLE ancient canoes at the bottom of a Wisconsin lake that predate the Egyptian pyramids This is now among one of the oldest artifacts found in North America that belonged to Indigenous Peoples Incredible discovery and now I really want to make a trip to Madison and kayak these same waterways in a dugout canoe #archaeology #ancient #ancienthistory #indigenous

This is the most bonkers theory about human evolution I’ve ever heard, but it makes sense #evolution #ancient #edutok #todayilearned

The Black scientist everyone should know. Julian grew up in Alabama where no high school would accept him because of his race. He went on to earn a PhD from the University of Vienna, become a pioneering synthetic chemist, and was ultimately the first person to synthesize cortisone at scale, the drug treatment for arthritis and many inflammatory diseases, making it widely accessible. Before his breakthrough, cortisone was extracted from cattle bile and cost SO much only the wealthy could afford it. His synthesis from soybeans made it cheap enough to matter. His groundbreaking work in chemistry laid the foundation for synthesize progesterone, testosterone and ultimately the birth control pill. We owe so much to Dr. Julian. So let’s make sure we know his name. #blackhistorymonth #americanhistory #science #medicine

When geology & Black History month collide 🤯 #geology #ancient #blackhistorymonth

Omg do y’all know about Greenland sharks??? These animals are straight up the aliens of the ocean. Also fair warning to anyone who is squeamish, skip the end of the video #greenlandshark #shark #marinelife #ocean #mindblown

Today I Learned we’re 99.999% empty space 🤯 #didyouknow #science #mindblown #physics #edutok

The American history we should all be learning #blackhistorymonth #americanhistory #hiddenhistory #didyouknow

Homo Naledi is back in the news and this find genuinely broke my brain. Deep in a South African cave, scientists believe they found evidence that Homo naledi, a human relative with a brain a third the size of ours, was burying their dead 150,000 years before humans ever did. This finding has been controversial since day 1, mainly because scientists think it’s impossible for a small brained hominid to be capable of burial. But here's the thing…what if we've just been wrong about what a small brain can actually do? #archaeology #ancient #cave #mindblown

Scientists discovered that our hands evolved from our butt 🍑 And that’s enough internet for me today #evolution #anatomy #biology #ancient

Okay we’ve got new Black Plague lore!!! Scientists discovered that the Black Plague may have been caused by a volcano??? This is so dang interesting. #blackdeath #disease #darkhistory #edutok

Real science, real results! #FebrezePartner #ad Why does spraying air freshener sometimes make bad smells WORSE? Turns out, most air fresheners just pile fragrance on top of stink molecules instead of actually eliminating the odor. But here’s where chemistry gets cool: Febreze AIR Mist uses cyclodextrin (a molecule shaped like a tiny donut) to TRAP odor molecules before they hit your nose, plus sodium citrate to neutralize pH imbalances that make things smell funky in the first place. And the upgraded #FebrezeAIR formula has 50% more of these odor fighting ingredients and 30% more fragrance. It’s not a cover-up. It’s actual odor elimination. Check out the other Freshology lessons at @Febreze! #ScienceCommunication #LiveFresh

Why the heck does space smell like a cosmic BBQ 🧐 #space #nasa #cosmos #astronomy #didyouknow

We’ve got new prions lore people!! Prions as known as agents of chaos responsible for mad cow and other fatal brain diseases. But just might be the reason life exists at all. Scientists are now exploring whether these shape-shifting proteins were the spark that transformed chemistry into biology on primordial Earth. 1. Jacqui M. A. Carnall et al. ,Mechanosensitive Self-Replication Driven by Self-Organization.Science327,1502-1506(2010).DOI:10.1126/science.1182767 2. Stephen D. Fried, Kosuke Fujishima, Mikhail Makarov, Ivan Cherepashuk, Klara Hlouchova; Peptides before and during the nucleotide world: an origins story emphasizing cooperation between proteins and nucleic acids. J R Soc Interface 1 February 2022; 19 (187): 20210641. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2021.0641 #prions #biology #chemistry #science #mindblown

This is the confounding medical case of the girl with two immune systems. In 2008, 9 year old Demi-Lee Brennan received a liver transplant. 9 months later her blood type completely changed. She was becoming her donor. Her body was replacing her entire blood cell system with her donor’s.every This is the only known case of complete hematopoietic chimerism and it saved her life. It’s also the only known case of operational tolerance: the ability to receive a transplant without immunosuppressive drugs - a method transplant doctors have been trying to achieve for years. The human body is incredible. CLARIFICATION: A lot of people were asking how is it even safe/possible for an O RhD-negative recipient to receive an organ transplant rom an O RhD-negative donor. Based on the NEJM case study and my own understanding, the RhD antigen issue is primarily critical for blood transfusions and pregnancy, but less so for solid organ transplants. RhD antigens are on red blood cells and while there are some red blood cells in the vasculature of the organ, it’s in a small enough quantity where the benefits outweigh the risk. In certain critical scenarios like Demi-Lee’s, a RhD mismatch is acceptable given the clinical urgency. But, the RhD change that happened later (when her blood became RhD-positive) was a result of the chimerism, not a transplant complication. You can read the case study published in the NEJM here: “Chimerism and Tolerance in a Recipient of a Deceased-Donor Liver Transplant” Alexander SI, Smith N, Hu M, Verran D, Shun A, Dorney S, Smith A, Webster B, Shaw PJ, Lammi A, Stormon MO. Chimerism and tolerance in a recipient of a deceased-donor liver transplant. N Engl J Med. 2008 Jan 24;358(4):369-74. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa0707255. PMID: 18216357. #science #mindblown #medicine #truestory

Scientists just discovered that the mysterious ancient organism, Prototaxites, isn’t a fungus at all. It’s not a plant or animal either. Scientists believe it may actually be part of a 7th kingdom of life, an entire branch of evolution that vanished 400 million years ago without leaving a single relative behind. In other words, life but not as we know it 🤯 Prototaxites is not a plant. It’s not an animal. It’s definitely not a fungus. Scientists now think Prototaxites might be part of an entirely extinct kingdom of life. Something that dominated the Earth 400 million years ago, then vanished without a trace. #ancient #fungi #unsolvedmysteries