Reversible compromise of physiological resilience by accumulation of heteroplasmic mtDNA mutations | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New work from our group suggesting mitochondrial heteroplasmies are not just due to genetic drift: Deleterious mitochondrial heteroplasmies exhibit increased longitudinal change in variant allele fraction: iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

I signed. If you dislike what the Trump administration is doing to NIH and science, you should too.

I have signed this open letter Donald Trump, RFK Jr, Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, Tracy Beth Høeg & the rest of the GOP science leadership is working hard & fast to dismantle the US biomedical enterprise & celebrating the destruction Science is under siege from this kooky crowd

Harvard today, your institution tomorrow. It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America. All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

youtube.com/shorts/CuSwN... I made some people big mad with this one

🧪 Ranking member Lofgren and 11 other House dems sent a fiery 7-page letter to acting NSF director today "The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers" Share widely #SaveNSF

This is an enormous loss: www.whi.org/md/news/whi-...

Did you know? 99% of all new medications resulted from federally-funded university research through #NIH Learn more about #ResearchSavesLives: hub.jhu.edu/research-sav....

BREAKING: More international graduate students at Johns Hopkins University have lost their student visas. The total is now "several dozen," up from around 12. We are the first outlet to report on this, here is what you need to know: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

University presidents, the time is now! Unshackle the general counsel's office! File all the lawsuits! Release the faculty upon the op-ed sections! Write to your alumni, parents, and donors! You have nothing to lose but a tiny percentage of your enormous endowments... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

I am proud to have Chris Eisgruber leading my university. He is meeting the moment.

On health economist Jay Bhattacharya’s first day as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the chiefs of four of the 27 institutes and centres that make up his agency were removed from their posts. https://go.nature.com/3QZ8GGT

Research Saves Lives. Here at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research is about more than just data-it's about people. Every future discovery starts with the work happening now. Read more about our research: hub.jhu.edu/research-sav... youtube.com/shorts/q90oY...

Difficult to see how this helps human health or medical research. Eric has been an outstanding leader in our genomics community. www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/t...

"A reduction in funding would erode the competitive edge my group has built over decades and will ultimately impact our capacity to make a difference in helping disease prevention in both individual—and population—levels," says @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social Distinguished Professor Nilanjan Chatterjee

Join me and Patrick Chinnery, Luca Scorrano, Aleksandra Trifunovic, and Min Jiang for the Westlake - @science.org Online Symposium Wed 28 March 13.00 CET/20.00 China Mitochondria in health and disease us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Hey DC metro / NoVA / MD folks — let’s get this going!

Please read and share this excellent FAQ on University indirect costs by my friend @broniatowski.bsky.social He explains why these funds are essential and a critical investment for research in the United States. www.linkedin.com/posts/david-...

Powerful article written by my colleague Steven Salzberg that captures the damage being done to scientific research in this country: stevensalzberg.substack.com/p/the-pointl...

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

March 7. Stand Up For Science. Rallies in DC and nationwide. 🧪 Please visit the website and spread the word. www.standupforscience2025.org

Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap initiated by Tom Maniatis. Please amplify Sign the Petition: chng.it/kK2HMP5pGk "Share with Leadership & Faculty. Reach out to professional societies, biotech and pharma leaders, and philanthropic organizations to raise awareness and mobilize support."

How to get 146% return on investment? The NIH. That's just the economic benefit. Biomedical research promotes human health.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

Very excited about this new work from our lab! Explainer thread coming soon @minetoota.bsky.social

New study from two very talented postdocs @yunsoohong.bsky.social and @sergiuppasca.bsky.social describing how incorporating mitochondrial heteroplasmy into latest CHIP myeloid neoplasm risk predictors identifies ~35% more high-risk individuals with little loss in specificity: rdcu.be/d08yB

Nice work from Nicole Lake and Monkol Lek (with a small contribution from our group): medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11...