To get full flavor of this remarkable collection and its remarkable backstory, read the links. www.science.org/content/arti...

I took a close look at vaccine mandates in the wake of Florida's push to do away with them. www.science.org/content/arti...

David Baltimore, for much of the past three decades, has been one of my most helpful, thoughtful sources. I wrote an obit about his remarkable career, and I included a few of my interactions with him. www.science.org/content/arti...

I started research for this story, which came out today, more than a year ago. Thanks to all who stuck with me, and shared their thoughts. www.science.org/content/arti...

OK, I was wrong. I thought the call for China to share more data was spotlighting the central problem--and common ground-- and that the other arguments were debatable but far less relevant. I, too, think intelligence communities should produce evidence and not simply reveal how they lean.

The rare opinion piece about the contentious origin of COVID pandemic that will find most everyone interested in this question nodding in agreement--everyone, that is, outside of government officials and compliant scientists in China. thebulletin.org/2025/08/why-...

Xenotransplantation of pig-to-human organs takes a small step forward with the first ever lung transplant. It's not a giant leap for mankind, but it adds to momentum the field has seen over the past year. www.science.org/content/arti...

Proposal calls for quintupling implementation science budget at NIH to make it 30% of portfolio, potentially cutting basic research driving treatment, vaccine, and cure studies. Lenacapavir PrEP triggered push for funding shift. www.science.org/content/arti...

@martinenserink.bsky.social delves into dilemmas Guinea is facing in malaria prevention/treatment of children because of U.S. government cuts in aid. Powerful story, photos, and graphics. This is the third in our series, generously supported by @pulitzercenter.org www.science.org/content/arti...

A key spending panel in the U.S. House of Representatives has signaled it sharply disagrees with President Donald Trump’s proposals to cut or totally eliminate funding for prominent global health programs. www.science.org/content/arti...

Barbie's New Pink Pumps (The headline that didn't make it through the editing machine.) www.science.org/content/arti...

"Just remember this: If my purpose is to shine that beacon of hope, then by God, I'm happy to do that," says Loreen Willenberg. Strong evidence suggests she naturally cured HIV infection--and she's now beating lung and brain cancer. www.science.org/content/arti...

Updated with a few new details. www.science.org/content/arti...

“I just can’t see how they’re going to make it up,” says Jennifer Kates, director of the Global Health & HIV Policy Program at the nonprofit KFF. @kffhealthnews.org www.science.org/content/arti...

“NIH has identified 40 projects that may meet the definition of dangerous gain-of-function research.… Erring on the side of caution, all projects potentially meeting the definition are being suspended,” NIH deputy director Matt Memoli wrote to White House. www.science.org/content/arti...

“I call it the confetti strategy: You distribute a little bit everywhere,” says Ana Maria Henao-Restrepo, a WHO vaccine specialist who led the analysis. www.science.org/content/arti...

The report faults the governments of the United States and Germany for not sharing more information from their intelligence communities but reserves its strongest criticism for China. www.science.org/content/arti...

Catherine Offord's powerful, must-read cover story about the impact of Trump cuts on nutrition programs for children in Nepal. Part 2 in series we're doing with support from the wonderful @pulitzercenter.bsky.social. www.science.org/content/arti...

Gates Foundation asked me to underscore that its commitment remains steadfast to collaborative effort to make lenacapavir PrEP available to 2 million people in next three years. Question is: Can the collaboration do this without PEPFAR support? www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Jaws' release in 1975 haunted the reputation of sharks worldwide. But a generation of scientists helped turn the tide. My story for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/s...

“This is one of the most exciting recent advances for influenza prevention." www.science.org/content/arti...

“I don’t think there was a lot of confidence we were going to succeed.” Gilead's making of lenacapavir PrEP that last six months with a single shot, approved by FDA June 18. www.science.org/content/arti...

How much expertise did a key vaccine panel lose this week when RFK Jr. fired its 17 members and appointed 8 new ones? @meredithwadman.bsky.social and I looked at their publication records to find out. www.science.org/content/arti...

I had the great honor and privilege of moderating a panel yesterday with winner's of this year's AAAS Mani L. Bhaumik Breakthrough of the Year award for people who played instrumental roles in developing and testing injectable lenacapavir as PrEP.

“We are still highly dependent on donation,” says Placide Mbala, an mpox researcher at the DRC’s National Institute of Biomedical Research. www.science.org/content/arti...

Headline says it all. www.science.org/content/arti...

The longstanding joke about xenotransplantation--it's the future and always will be--may soon lose all its punch. www.science.org/content/arti...

Many thanks to @pulitzercenter.bsky.social for making this possible. And of course to my fabulous editor, @martinenserink.bsky.social. www.science.org/content/arti...

Wow. @antonioregalado.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/23/1...

“Conservation as a practice has traditionally been about trying to keep things the way they are and maybe even the way they were, and microbes are not down with that at all." www.science.org/content/arti...

“What’s troubling is to have an announcement that this is a revolutionary technology that is going to change the world, and there’s nothing on which to base those statements.” www.science.org/content/arti...

“I’m really uncomfortable with this conversation, because you’re like, actually spreading rumors that you don’t know anything about." Shortly before announcing policy change he said was a "rumor." @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social interview. www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH’s new director, Jayanta “Jay” Bhattacharya, dismissed the report as “rumors” in an interview with Science on Thursday morning, hours before he announced the new policy. www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH announces six new acting institute directors, many of them filling posts of ousted predecessors. My latest @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/04/25/n...

For this story, I reached out to 42 institutions to gather biomedical graduate admissions data. Those that said class size would decrease reported an average drop of about a third. “The future of the enterprise is jeopardized," Suzanne Ortega, president of the Council of Graduate Schools, told me. 👇

New acting director at NIAID is familiar face to flu researchers. www.science.org/content/arti...

Exodus continues. www.science.org/content/arti...

I'm turning final corner on book in works for 4 years about scientific efforts to prevent future pandemics. Knopf plans to publish in October and now has teaser up. Deeply grateful to @sloanfoundation.bsky.social and many others for the support! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690752...

In a setback for the long struggling xenotranspantation field, the gene-edited pig kidney in Towana Looney failed. But the upside is she's back on dialysis and doing fine, and she lived longer with a pig kidney than any human has to date. My exclusive story: www.science.org/content/arti...

Today Secy Kennedy said he'll undo some layoffs in HHS "was always the plan. Part of the DOGE, we talked about this from the beginning, is we're going to do 80% cuts, but 20% of those are going to have to be reinstated, because we'll make mistakes" tinalexander.github.io/notes/2025/0...

"It’s kind of a textbook case of arbitrary and capricious.” A lawsuit alleges that NIH didn't follow proper procedure and was unconstitutionally vague when abruptly terminating >600 grants. My story @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

The NINDS scientists fired in the RIF are back at work - for now - after a "coding error" led to their accidental termination. HHS blames "broken systems left to us by the Biden administration." My story @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

If you believed this Tweet, a doctor who sells vaccine detox kits was named as deputy director of CDC today. I checked with HHS. It's not accurate. April Fools? Dunno. But lots of people who were sweating bullets are wiping their brows. x.com/stella_imman...

"All this talk about eliminating waste-fraud-abuse-DEI-wokeness-whathaveyou is a childishly transparent rationale for the actual program, which is demolition, a power grab."

One high level HHS official shown the door told Science, “I couldn’t have worked with these asshats anyway.” www.science.org/content/arti...

aking sense of the chaos “is more challenging than trying to understand what’s going on with the damn diseases themselves,” says epidemiologist Michael Osterholm. www.science.org/content/arti...