Infection Connections: How past microbial incursions can lead to neurodegenerative diseases stanmed.stanford.edu/infections-l...

@polybiorf.bsky.social is holding their Fall Research symposium tomorrow (Fri Nov 14). Register here to attend virtually —https://polybio.org/fall-2025-symposium/

With the RECOVER-NEURO clinical trial study results published today, looking forward to these RECOVER pathology studies planned for publication in 2026-2027

Unsurprisingly, none of the “brain training interventions” tested in the RECOVER-NEURO Long Covid trial showed efficacy jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Hey everyone, I'm excited to share that AirFanta Wear is now live on air-fanta.com/products/air... You'll find a thorough product breakdown and a detailed video I made explaining a lot of things about it. (1/3)

A nice article in Nature on how seemingly esoteric, basic science research has had an enormous impact on our lives… highlighting the importance of funding basic research whose practical applications are not yet readily apparent! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is cool 🙂

Massachusetts Rebuffs RFK Jr. With Northeast Vaccine Accord www.msn.com/en-us/health...

UK: What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has the answer: "Respirators would have dropped the rate of COVID transmission by an estimated factor of 9, compared with 0.6 for surgical masks. A factor of 9 is enough to put SARS-COV-2 into exponential decay! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

At his confirmation hearing, RFK Jr claimed he wouldn’t take away vaccines. So far he has: Removed COVID vaccine recommendations Fired the CDC’s vaccine committee Replaced scientists with antivaxxers Cancelled vaccine hesitancy research Pulled $500m in mRNA vaccine research

Breaking news: The NIH yesterday moved to reinstate about 900 grants that a judge last week ruled had been canceled illegally because their topics, ranging from vaccine hesitancy or promoting diversity in the scientific workforce, had been blacklisted by the Trump administration. scim.ag/4lq9UrQ

More resistance from within the NIH Gift article www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

The FDA has approved Novavax COVID19 shots for those aged 65 and older or those 12-64 with medical conditions that put them at higher risk for severe COVID19. It doesn’t make sense to restrict it to ages 65 and up, but this is what happens when Congress confirms an anti-vaxxer to lead HHS.

PolyBio @polybiorf.bsky.social Spring Symposium: Zoom seminar with 10 minute research updates from 33 researchers. Friday, May 16, 1100 ET / 1500 UTC polybio.org/spring-2025-... Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #longcovid #chronicillness #mecfs #lyme #cci

Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10

Akiko Iwasaki and Harlan Krumholz call for Long COVID and chronic disease research funding in the WSJ: “Advancing this research is one of the most effective ways to improve the lives of the tens of millions of Americans with chronic diseases.” www.wsj.com/opinion/how-...

New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency. Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...

Kidney outcomes following COVID in children - from the NIH RECOVER initiative in @jama.com Network Open Usual caveats jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #pedneph #NephSky

Another $2.6 billion in cuts to NIH are coming by next Tuesday www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/n... The shredded image fits

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence "implications are profound" New @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/s41...

“A positive test for COVID-19 was associated with increased rates of diagnosis of various infections in the 12 months following an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Some very bad news: New modelling predicts up to 10 million additional HIV infections following aid cuts www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Gearing up mRNA vaccines ("tolerogenic") to prevent autoimmune diseases, vital science that is currently under irrational and reckless attack www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 BREAKING: Long COVID research grants rescinded earlier this week have been restored, according to researchers & patient reps. Advocates organized quickly yesterday in response to the news, helping reverse the decision. Exclusive in @thesicktimes.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2025/03/28/u...

The administration has canceled 45 RECOVER #LongCOVID grants. These grants examined pathology, & were vital to understanding infection-associated chronic illness as a whole. Half of those with #LongCOVID at 6 mo. meet criteria for #MECFS. 🧪 cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

The US Department of Health and Human Services canceled around $12 billion in federal grants to states that were allocated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The grants were being used to track, prevent and control infectious diseases, said lawmakers reut.rs/41WVed3

Folks, very bad news for #LongCOVID. Deep breath. 29 awarded grants to do with COVID and Long COVID have been rescinded by NIH. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.

How does SARS-CoV-2 lead to the multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, a rare, potentially fatal condition? www.nature.com/articles/s41... High levels of TGFβ interfere with the child's response to control Epstein Barr virus, leading to its reactivation and severe inflammation @nature.com

Excited to share the peer-reviewed version of our paper, which is out today!! Bispecific antibodies targeting the N-terminal and receptor binding domains potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern | Science Translational Medicine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

At a Stand Up for Science event? Show us your photos at #standupforscience2025 📣☀️🌎

The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials. Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.

Francis Collins Said science is of the people, by the people, for the people

NIH just posted this news announcement. "Today the National Institutes of Health is announcing plans to centralize peer review of all applications for grants, cooperative agreements and research and development contracts within the agency’s Center for Scientific Review (CSR)"

Essential reporting here. We have previously noted Bhattacharya’s ties to PANDA. Give this a read. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Jay Bhattacharya’s confirmation hearings begin tomorrow. Here’s everything you need to know about the man who will (probably) lead our National Institutes of Health. Don’t sleep on this guy. He’s every bit as extreme as Robert Kennedy Jr. www.importantcontext.news/p/everything...

Very sad to see that #RareDiseaseDay event at FDA-NIH has been cancelled. Cuts that limit rare disease research and cures (1) leave patients behind, and (2) forfeit precious opportunity to learn more about common human diseases. udnf.org/udnf-stateme...

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

If people were really just dying from chronic diseases then how come they weren’t dying from their chronic diseases until after March, 2020?

Bluetorial: The path to a new pain medication with little potential for addiction Perhaps a good story to share with folks who want to learn about how biomedical research works and where advances come from.

This is a five-alarm fire 🔥 for US science 🧪. (We keep saying that, but it keeps being true 😭.) Trump and Musk are blocking *ALL* NIH grants ‼️ by "exploiting a loophole in the process"—stopping study sections & council meetings. Every biomedical researcher in the country should be screaming. 1/

Please watch @kimlanelaw.bsky.social's excellent and very important talk "How to Lose a Democracy: What America Can Learn from the Rest of the World" www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1yu... if you haven't already done so.

Late yesterday, Trump issued an executive order that terminates HHS's Long COVID advisory committee. The committee's focus was bringing perspectives from outside government to inform action of the Executive Branch on Long COVID and other infection-associated chronic conditions.

NEW: Trump actions on science may affect a generation as pauses + cuts in graduate admissions begin. “We had just flown them out, we told them we love you, we want to admit you, and then everything just stopped." "It's freezing everybody into inaction." www.statnews.com/2025/02/19/t...

BREAKING The nomination of Robert Kennedy Jr. to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services has been confirmed. The vote was 52-48. Senator Mitch McConnell was the only Republican to vote NO.