saw some angry responses to this piece, which is fine, but it is abundantly clear that the pro-AI faction in this country is about to start hammering hard on the line that water fears are overblown, using Masley as a source

SCOOP: We have new details on @wired.com about Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup, Merge Labs. Merge is being spun out of an LA nonprofit, Forest Neurotech, which has been working on a minimally invasive ultrasound device to read from and modulate the brain. www.wired.com/story/sam-al...

“Having him on the panel charged with monitoring efforts to improve cancer treatment is a disaster for cancer patients, as he will inject conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and false claims about cancer into the panel’s reports,” @gorskon.bsky.social told me www.wired.com/story/risch-...

SCOOP: HHS is considering launching a national men’s health initiative. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...

Democratic-led states are standing up to RFK Jr.'s ACIP and say they will continue recommending the universal birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/many-s...

Some cool science stories trending at @wired.com right now (though I may be biased). Go ahead and give 'em a read: www.wired.com

At ACIP meeting just now, a representative from the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society asked why change hep B vaccine schedule now when it's been working? ACIP member Vicky Pebsworth admits there has been "pressure coming from stakeholder groups wanting the policy to be revisited."

ACIP chaos continues. The language of the votes the committee is tasked with considering keeps changing. Joseph Hibbeln says, "We really need to know what we're voting on." They just took a break for "audio/visual harmonization."

Narcan saves lives. But what if there was a way to prevent fentanyl overdose deaths that didn't require a bystander being present? One biotech startup thinks it has a solution — a fentanyl vaccine that would provide year-long protection. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/a-fent...

NEW from me: i talked to the founders of a geothermal startup that is working on a simple (but surprisingly difficult) solution to find more geothermal energy: seek out systems deep underground that we can use for power. it's harder than you think!

A vaccine that could offer protection against fentanyl overdoses is entering early-stage trials next year. @emilymullin.bsky.social has the details!

NEW: A first-of-its-kind vaccine for fentanyl overdose is about to be tested in people. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/a-fent...

As chair of ACIP, Kulldorff was the tiebreaker vote on a proposal that would have required prescriptions for Covid-19 vaccines. Coincidence? apnews.com/article/cdc-...

Scientists at the CDC have been told to phase out all of their monkey research. www.science.org/content/arti...

Brain implant developer Paradromics has gotten FDA approval to test its device in a human trial. The Austin-based company is aiming to give a digital voice to people who have lost the ability to speak due to severe motor impairment. >> Story at @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/paradr...

CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”

Yesterday, the NIH abruptly placed @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social, who has been a vocal critic of the administration’s changes to the NIH, on leave “It is intended as a threat,” she told me yesterday www.statnews.com/2025/11/14/n...

GLP-1s are being studied for a wide range of conditions. Now, scientists will test whether their anti-inflammatory properties can help alleviate symptoms of #LongCovid. @wired.com @emilymullin.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/weight...

It's been nearly two years since the first gene-editing therapy, Casgevy, was approved for sickle cell disease. Just 39 patients worldwide have received it in that time. This is from a Nov. 10 update from manufacturer Vertex:

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

The Wall Street Journal has more details on Preventive, the latest human embryo editing company. Sam Altman of OpenAI and and his husband are among its backers: www.wsj.com/tech/biotech...

Oh, to be a fly on the wall. www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/m...

Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

Incredible reporting from @carolinehaskins.bsky.social about a school Mark Zuckerberg opened on his Palo Alto compound and operated for years with no permits, permissions, anything at all

Over on the other site, gene-editing scientist Lucas Harrington announced a new company to explore "preventive gene editing." In case you're counting, this is the third startup openly pursuing plans to edit human embryos. More on the company here: www.preventive.bio/blog/announc...

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, a new biotech startup called Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of editing human embryos. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/startu...

Remember when RFK Jr. was against fracking? Kennedy once said he'd ban fracking, which is known to contaminate groundwater and surface water and has been linked to certain cancers. Yet now he's taking the administration's stance against wind energy: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

WIRED has learned that surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have removed a gene-edited pig kidney from 67-year-old Tim Andrews. The organ functioned for nearly nine months, longer than any previous pig organ transplant. www.wired.com/story/man-ha...

The CDC's union estimates that a quarter of the agency been gutted under the Trump administration. Here's our story at @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

WIRED reporter here. If you're a CDC worker and would like to share any information on the RIFs, feel free to message me at emullin.06 on Signal.

New from @sameagan.bsky.social: The right has capitalized off manosphere fitness content for years, but the left is finally pushing back. One prominent Democratic operative offered two fitness influencers over $10K each to make leftist content: www.wired.com/story/as-the...

Despite indications that RFK Jr. would limit access to Covid vaccines, shots will be widely available again soon with insurance still covering them (at least through the end of the year). My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/covid-...

Apropos of nothing, if you are an HHS employee and would like to securely send me a tip, you can contact me at emullin.06 on Signal. Or send me an anonymous email here: www.emilymullin.com/contact

EXCLUSIVE: Startup Cognixion is launching the first-of-its-kind clinical trial to use the Apple Vision Pro as a brain-computer interface to help severely paralyzed people communicate. www.wired.com/story/this-s...

NEW: In a controversial step that raises the possibility of a new kind of infertility treatment, scientists made eggs from human skin cells. Spoiler: The resulting embryos were abnormal and importantly, they weren't used to start a pregnancy. My story for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/scient...

My local women’s hiking group is doing a horse yoga event and I have questions.

EXCLUSIVE: A startup used AI to develop a psychedelic without the trip—and it worked (in a small, initial study). It's part of a new class of drugs that could hopefully treat mental illness without the intensity of traditional psychedelics. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/a-star...

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After recording 12+ hours of the ACIP meeting, my transcription software service just warned me that I am approaching my monthly account minutes limit.💀

Today, ACIP voted down its own proposal to require prescriptions for Covid vaccines. It also voted to recommend “individual-based decision-making,” aka talk to a healthcare provider before getting one. So, uh, what exactly was the point of this meeting? www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...

At the ACIP meeting this afternoon, a representative from the American Pharmacists Association had to point out to members that in many states, the authority for pharmacists to give vaccines is based on ACIP recommendations. It's as if the new ACIP members don't actually know what ACIP does.

Day 2 of ACIP: The committee just voted 11-1 in favor of tabling the hepatitis B vaccine issue. This was the anticipated vote language:

I watched 7 hours of yesterday's ACIP meeting so you didn't have to. www.wired.com/story/vaccin...

At ACIP meeting, Joseph Hibbeln and Cody Meissner are questioning why they're being asked to evaluate changing MMRV and hep B vaccine recommendations when there's no new data on either. Will be watching to see if these two are mysteriously dropped from ACIP in coming months.

ICYMI: Former CDC director Susan Monarez says RFK Jr. demanded she sign off on changes to the vaccine schedule regardless of whether they were backed by scientific evidence. “Even under pressure, I could not replace evidence with ideology or compromise my integrity." www.wired.com/story/susan-...

In case you wondering, we continue to not use ChatGPT at WIRED to write our story drafts.

At the WIRED Health summit last week, Harvard biochemist David Liu said his lab is on the verge of revealing a single gene-editing strategy that could rescue multiple unrelated diseases: www.wired.com/story/the-ne...

NEW: i took a look at new research from @oilchange.bsky.social which finds that taxpayers are on the hook for an additional $4 billion per year in fossil fuel subsidies thanks to the one big beautiful bill:

NEW: Elon Musk's brain implant company Neuralink filed to trademark the names 'Telepathy' and 'Telekinesis' back in March. But it turns out another party actually filed for the trademarks first. www.wired.com/story/uspto-...