In this episode of The Science, David Gornoski sits down with Dr. Howard Tenenbaum from the University of Toronto. Dr. Tenenbaum explains how studying mouth inflammation led him to research treatment for COVID using Doxycycline. How does treatment with Doxycycline differ from that of Paxlovid? Can antibiotics be used to treat viral diseases? Are the […]
In this special Science and U interview, Professor Michael Lisanti, Chair of Translational Medicine at the University of Salford, returns to speak with David Gornoski, Tucker Goodrich, and Dr. Weiping Yu. The conversation centers around Dr. Lisanti’s fascinating method of fighting metastatic cancer cells with antibiotics like Doxycycline and Bedaquiline. How does Dr. Lisanti’s way […]
Professor Michael Lisanti, Chair of Translational Medicine at the University of Salford joins David Gornoski and physicist Weiping Yu to discuss his work using antibiotics to destroy senescent cells-dysfunctional aging cells-as well as cancer stem cells. These generic, very inexpensive antibiotics have studies showing antiviral effects in other viruses. Dr. Lisanti proposes that clinical trials […]