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New York Times
By any measure, the diabetes drug Ozempic has been a blockbuster, racking up billions of dollars in annual sales. In the United States alone, pharmacies fill millions…
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C&EN
(Podcast) In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN assistant editor Laurel Oldach about the use of horseshoe crab blood in…
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Wildlife Health Talks
(Podcast) In this episode, our host Cat Vendl sits down with Dr. Tim Cernak, who is revolutionizing wildlife conservation through an unexpected lens…
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Michigan Giving
The national animal of Panama, the Panamanian golden frog, is currently extinct in the wild. In Southeast Michigan and Ohio, the invasive emerald ash borer has wiped out…
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Ann Arbor Observer
He’s speaking of the hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA), an invasive insect that has devastated hemlock populations on the east coast since it arrived in 1951 from…
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University of Michigan LSA magazine
Tim Cernak isn’t looking at the world through rose-colored glasses. Many recent examples, including habitat loss and rising global temperatures…
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C&EN
Tim Cernak’s journey into conservation research started in 2020 with, of all things, a gardening question. He had picked up native plant gardening as a way to…
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De Correspondent
We spend hundreds of billions annually on medical research for humans, yet sick non-humans still have to make do with outdated antibiotics or devastating…
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Michigan Public Radio (NPR)
(Podcast) We heard from University of Michigan professor Timothy Cernak and a Gila monster named Pebbles. Pebbles doesn’t have much to say, but reptile curator…
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Science
(Podcast) Chemical synthesis is the foundation of small molecule drug development. Technological and computational breakthroughs have brought about…
Detroit Free Press
Avian influenza has raged through Michigan's bird population for two years, forcing commercial farmers and people with backyard coops to kill…
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Michigan Public Radio (NPR)
(Podcast) On May 2nd, Tim Cernak, assistant professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Chemistry at the University of Michigan, sat down with April Baer from Stateside…
Michigan News
With a big assist from artificial intelligence and a heavy dose of human touch, Tim Cernak’s lab at the University of Michigan made a discovery…
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University of Michigan
Through a merger of artificial intelligence and chemical synthesis, the laboratories of Drs. Tim Cernak and Paul Zimmerman…
C&EN
It’s dinnertime, and the only food in your house is a can of beans and a box of spaghetti. What can you make? A new mapping method…
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Futurity
Their new paper comes as the world faces the loss of a staggering number of species of animals and plants to endangerment and…
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C&EN
(Podcast) Chemistry is going the way of computing. It’s getting smaller and faster. High-throughput experimentation, or HTE, is part of…
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Pharmacy Practice News
“Save the horseshoe crab!” may not stir the same public fervor as campaigns to preserve other more popular animal species whose survival…
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Michigan Public Radio (NPR)
For a 2-foot-long lizard, the Gila monster has had an outsized impact on modern pharmaceuticals. Gila monsters have natural hormones, called GLP-1…
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The Scientist
For 40 years, researchers relied on horseshoe crab blood to catch endotoxins in drugs. Now, synthetic alternatives and updated regulations can end the practice…