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Scott Boyd Lab for Human Immunology Research at Stanford University.
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Hensley Lab
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Anyone that has been around a lab knows that the trainees really drive the research, while most professors just sort of guide the ship. Most innovation comes from our trainees. Old professors like me will be able to survive these cuts, but our young scientists and our future will be destroyed.
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Max Kozlov
9 months ago
Researcher Amita Gupta has spent more than a decade planning and running a $70-million trial to study a new tuberculosis drug, enrolling ~6,000 participants in 13 countries. It might all have been for nothing. That's because a new NIH policy has abruptly cut off billions to trials abroad. 🧪
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NIH grant cuts will axe clinical trials abroad — and could leave thousands without care
US agency’s new policy could abruptly end studies of infectious diseases and cancer, leaving researchers scrambling for funds.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01721-9
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10 months ago
Check out this news story that
@nature.com
wrote describing our recent preprint where we tested our H5 mRNA vaccine in calves. The data look good and we are currently testing the vaccine in lactating cattle...more to come!
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Wonderfully good video about the beauty of science and humanitarian motivation working together to defeat diseases and save people.
youtube.com/watch?v=ybVZ...
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#NIH
#CDC
#WHO
#BMGF
#NIAID
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Defeating a Virus That Killed Half a Billion People – The Plea
YouTube video by Neil Halloran
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ybVZ7vluYhQ
10 months ago
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E John Wherry
10 months ago
So this is not a problem?...But we can't even buy an NIH researcher a cup of coffee because of conflicts of interest!? The hypocrisy is insane. Investigations into universities, but at the White House all gifts and straight up crypto-bribes are fine. WTF
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...
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Trump Is Poised to Accept a Luxury 747 From Qatar for Use as Air Force One
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/us/politics/trump-qatar-jet-gift-air-force-one.html
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Waggoner Lab
10 months ago
Brain tissue artificially expanded to show how neurons wire together
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Light-microscopy-based connectomic reconstruction of mammalian brain tissue - Nature
A technique called LICONN (light-microscopy-based connectomics) allows mapping of brain tissue at synapse level and simultaneous measurement of molecular information, thus enabling quantification of c...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08985-1
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Stephen Jacob Smith
11 months ago
“This image from video posted on the Children's Health Defense [RFK Jr.’s anti-vax nonprofit] website on March 31 shows Dr. Ben Edwards with a measles rash on his face, while working in a makeshift clinic in Seminole, Texas.”
www.cnn.com/2025/04/19/h...
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Video shows doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr. later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer | CNN
A Texas doctor who has been treating children in a measles outbreak was shown on video with a measles rash on his face in a clinic a week before Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met him and prai...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/19/health/measles-rfk-texas-doctor/index.html
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽
11 months ago
The Senate Committee on Appropriations is holding a hearing on Biomedical Research: Keeping America’s Edge in Innovation on April 30 at 10:30am ET, chaired by Senator Susan Collins 🧪
www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/bio...
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Biomedical Research: Keeping America’s Edge in Innovation | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/biomedical-research-keeping-americas-edge-in-innovation
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Sera Markoff
11 months ago
I can’t exaggerate how badly this will affect our field, also internationally since many missions are jointly funded with eg ESA and JAXA. We are basically pinning our hopes on congressfolk to fight for all the regions that will lose jobs, since the science isn’t winning any arguments. 😢🔭🧪
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12 months ago
THREAD The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X. By quite a lot. Release the Kraken...
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Eric Topol
12 months ago
Multiple sclerosis requires Epstein-Barr virus infection as an underpinning, exhibits self-directed antibodies to EBNA1, the virus's nuclear antigen, representing molecular mimicry. This combines with/ genetic risk factors (Figure, compared w/healthy controls)
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www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
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Many outstanding medical researchers at NIH threatened by non-renewal of contracts:
www.science.org/content/arti...
They give the US new discoveries & the economic benefits of doing the risky first steps toward innovative cures. Harming medical research is a self-inflicted national injury.
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NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-ban-renewing-senior-scientists-adds-assaults-its-house-research
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about 1 year ago
I am happy to announce our new paper "Univariate-guided sparse regression". It's a new lasso that leverages the signs and magnitude of univariate coefficients . Sparser and more interpretable than the lasso. We're excited!
arxiv.org/abs/2501.18360
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github.com/trevorhastie...
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Univariate-Guided Sparse Regression
In this paper, we introduce ``UniLasso'' -- a novel statistical method for sparse regression. This two-stage approach preserves the signs of the univariate coefficients and leverages their magnitude. ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18360
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Marion Pepper
about 1 year ago
This is heartbreaking. But not an unfamiliar feeling for my science colleagues and my own lab who burnt the midnight oil 24/7 studying COVID immunity to understand how to protect American lives during the pandemic. Nonsensical, performative betrayal. No one will actually benefit and people will die.
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about 1 year ago
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Eric Topol
about 1 year ago
This week was the 1st publication using our immune cell sequencing to accurately make medical diagnoses. It has enormous implications, as I've reviewed here
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-first-...
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@science.org
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The First Diagnostic Immunome
A Big Step Forward By Sequencing B and T Cell Receptors Plus A.I.
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-first-diagnostic-immunome
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Attempting to read the language of B cell and T cell receptor sequences to diagnose immunological diseases: Our new paper, led by the outstanding Maxim Zaslavsky
@maximzaslavsky.bsky.social
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with help from me and Anshul Kundaje
@anshulkundaje.bsky.social
. Link:
buff.ly/3QvxSVf
about 1 year ago
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Destructive, cruel and directly harmful to the health and security of America. The physical, real world of viruses and other pathogens doesn’t care about politics and won’t spare us.
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about 1 year ago
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Mark Cuban
about 1 year ago
This is so smart.
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social
, thoughts ? And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions ! We all look forward to reading your thoughts
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Fyodor Urnov
about 1 year ago
NIH-supported research saves lives: here are two "poster" human beings to prove it. Emily Whitehead: cured of her leukemia by CAR-T developed at Penn. Victoria Gray: major symptoms of her sickle cell disease resolved following CRISPR gene editing - path paved at Boston Childrens, UW, UC Berkeley.
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Kathleen Clark
about 1 year ago
The 22 state AGs note that in 2017, Trump proposed a similar across-the-board rate cut, but Congress rejected it. In 2018 & every year since, Congress has enacted an appropriations rider forbidding NIH from pursuing an across-the-board rate cut.
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STAT
about 1 year ago
#BREAKING
- 22 states sue to block Trump administration cuts to NIH research payments
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22 states sue to block Trump administration cuts to NIH research payments
Attorneys general sued the Trump administration to block a NIH decision that would slash grant payments for research overhead
https://buff.ly/3WOW4VV
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Josh Barocas, MD ⭕️
about 1 year ago
Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better… -For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return. -Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
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Ilan Schwartz
about 1 year ago
Scientific advancements aside, this is economically irresponsible Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.46 For example, in 2023, $47B in NIH spending generated ~$93B Halting NIH spending will LOSE the US a lot of money (and talent)
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Amy Maxmen, PhD
about 1 year ago
Deforestation & climate change are driving bat viruses into us. Excellent reporting by
@janeqiu.bsky.social
@sciam.bsky.social
and the photos are omg so cute
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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Angie Rasmussen
about 1 year ago
My replies are perpetually full of anti-vaxxers these days telling me about polio vaccines. Not shockingly, most of what they are saying is wrong. Luckily, I trained with Vincent Racaniello & he taught me a few things about poliovirus. So let’s discuss the king of the Picornaviridae👇🏻
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A remarkable story from
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and colleagues: immunization via skin S. epidermidis generates systemic and mucosal antibody responses.
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