Former PhD candidate in Mo Li lab | Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Salk Institute | Ibn Rushd Fellow | Aging Research 🔬| Rusty Gage Lab
California, USA
Joined June 2017
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Samhan Alsolami retweeted
Sam's paper could transform the field. Making neurons from adult fibroblasts and packing them into 3D structures while preserving epigenetic signatures can transform the study of #AlzheimerDisease and other neurodegenerative disorders. @salkinstitute. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…
Samhan Alsolami retweeted
Enjoyed reviewing and summarizing this important & reproducible (yes we tried it) paper on how DMSO is sufficient to induce human balstoids from human naive PSCs, emphasizing (again) the great importance cell state has on embryo models formed. Congrat to Mo Li group & @KAUST nature.com/articles/s41422-0…
Samhan Alsolami retweeted
The cancer-Alzheimer's paradox, an inverse correlation, with an unexplained mechanism
"The risk of Alzheimer’s disease in patients with cancer is significantly reduced, and the risk of cancer in patients with Alzheimer’s disease is halved."
nature.com/articles/s41514-0…
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New episode of The ReProgram Podcast featuring Dr. Rich Miller! What does it actually mean to slow aging? youtube.com/watch?v=N_yzQUkf…
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Thrilled that our paper is the cover story & featured paper in July issue of @cell_res!
We reveal a simple DMSO-based approach to human blastoid formation and uncover roles for lysosomal acidification and cellular biophysics
@KAUST_News @KAUST_BESE
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Just as species diversify to occupy various ecological niches, neurons diversify to occupy computational niches. Primate neocortical expansion from V1 to lateral PFC led to adaptive radiation at the cellular level. Primate evolution did not spare levels. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Stable bioreactor control reveals acidic pH–driven metabolic reprogramming and mitochondrial dysfunction in human lymphoblastoid cells: Communications Biology, Published online: 15 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s42003-026-10013-5Acidic pH rewires human… dlvr.it/TSgFYw
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Online Now! ZNF512B safeguards genome integrity at regulatory regions to repress the SASP and inflammation dlvr.it/TT47LR #stemcells
Samhan Alsolami retweeted
China launches 'human artificial embryos' to space in bid to see whether reproduction is possible off-world
China's Tianzhou-10 mission just delivered embryo-like structures made from living stem cells to the Tiangong space station. Experiments could shed light on how radiation and microgravity affect human reproduction.
livescience.com/space/space-…
Samhan Alsolami retweeted
Great to see our latest paper featured in @arabnews @KaustResearch @Samhan182 @YingziZhang212 study explores how cells respond to acidic stress | Arab News arabnews.com/node/2643256/sa…
Samhan Alsolami retweeted
باحثون من جامعة كاوست طوروا نموذجًا مبسطًا يحاكي المراحل الأولى لتكوّن الجنين البشري ما قد يفتح آفاقًا جديدة لفهم أسباب فشل بعض عمليات أطفال الأنابيب، والإجهاض المبكر،
و أيضاً اكتشفوا دورًا محوريًا لمضخة V-ATPase في تكوين التجويف الجنيني المبكر، وهي خطوة أساسية لنجاح الحمل
Samhan Alsolami retweeted
يكشف باحثو كاوست كيفية تعزيز صحة خلايا الإنسان واستعادة قدرتها على إنتاج الطاقة حتى في ظروف الإجهاد الحمضي.
وتقدم الدراسة فرصاً مهمة لفهم أمراض مثل السرطان والالتهابات، وتطوير استراتيجيات جديدة لدعم صحة الإنسان، بما يعكس الدور المتنامي للمملكة في تعزيز البحث والابتكار على المستوى العالمي.
اعرف أكثر: ar.kaust.news/vUNP
Samhan Alsolami retweeted
New KAUST research shows that restoring a key energy molecule can partially reverse the effects of acidic stress in human cells, conditions found in cancer, inflammation, and aging.
The findings point toward new strategies to protect cells and support human health.
Explore the study: kaust.news/vUMQ
Samhan Alsolami retweeted
溶媒に汎用されるDMSOがBlastoid形成を誘導する驚きの報告。3%DMSOでヒトナイーブ幹細胞から内腔をもつBlastoid形成率が最大87％まで向上。DMSO→膜物性変化/TE分化を促進→V-ATPase上昇→内腔形成効率向上というモデル。DMSOがTE分化促進する直接機構は未解明。CellRes誌
nature.com/articles/s41422-0…
Samhan Alsolami retweeted
Excited to share our recent $13 Million CIRM Award to Fund Research on the Role of RNA Pollution in Neurodegenerative Diseases. @iachaim, Jerome Mertens, Rusty gage, Doug Galasko and Anne Bang today.ucsd.edu/story/13-mill…
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Proud to share our work in Communications Biology! We show acidity reprograms cellular metabolism, causing mitochondrial dysfunction and an energy crisis🔗nature.com/articles/s42003-0…
Thanks to @Mo_Li_KAUST @Samhan182, the amazing team, and KAUST @KAUST_BESE @KaustResearch @KAUST_News
Samhan Alsolami retweeted
While the brain only takes up 2% of the volume of the human body, it uses 20% of your body's energy.
In this special video episode of our Beyond Lab Walls podcast, Salk President Gerald Joyce interviews neuroscientist Rusty Gage, who focuses on the plasticity, adaptability, and diversity of the brain. He famously discovered that the adult human brain can generate new nerve cells, a process called neurogenesis.
Salk has declared 2026 the Year of Brain Health. Learn more about how our scientists are exploring the brain's interconnectedness throughout the body — and how we can potentially make lives longer and healthier by improving brain function.
salk.edu/science/2026-the-sa…
#brainhealth #sciencefacts #neuroscience #salkinstitute
Samhan Alsolami retweeted
إنجاز تاريخي يبرهن أن الكفاءات السعودية قادرة على إحداث أثر عالمي في ميادين العلوم والابتكار.🇸🇦
نبارك للبروفيسور عمر ياغي هذا التتويج المستحق بجائزة نوبل للكيمياء 2025.
كفاءة سعوديّة تحصد عن جدارة جائزة نوبل العالمية للكيمياء.
البروفيسور عمر ياغي؛ قامة علمية أحدثت ثورة كيميائية بابتكار هياكل عضوية معدنية قادرة على احتواء وتمرير جزيئات الغازات لمواجهة التحديات العالمية..
#سعودي_يفوز_بجائزة_نوبل
Samhan Alsolami retweeted
“My parents could barely read or write. It’s been quite a journey, science allows you to do it.”
New laureate Omar Yaghi was in the middle of changing flights when we reached him, just after he heard that he had been awarded the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry.
In this interview we speak about his early life as a refugee in Jordan and the overwhelming draw of the beauty of chemistry: “I set out to build beautiful things and solve intellectual problems.”
Listen now:
Samhan Alsolami retweeted
1. Happy to share our latest work @biorxivpreprint on developing SONAR (Sensing Of Nucleic acids using ASOs and Reverse-transcriptases) for sensing and responding to nucleic acids in living cells.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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