Nature: China pledges billion-dollar spending boost for science
by Xiaoying You @nature.com
go.nature.com/4rqZQ4u
11.03.2026 16:49
👍 13
🔁 5
💬 0
📌 1
Nature: China pledges billion-dollar spending boost for science
by Xiaoying You @nature.com
go.nature.com/4rqZQ4u
The Limits of Sequence-Based #Biosecurity Screening Tools in the Age of AI-Assisted Protein Design.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Evaluating AI-Assisted Customer Verification for Synthetic Nucleic Acid Screening.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
"All I can say is that I’m beginning to regret having lived so long — because we’re going downhill"
www.statnews.com/2026/03/02/s...
If measles vaccination rates continue to drop just 1% annually for the next five years, the cost to the U.S. could reach $1.5 billion a year, according to a new report from the Yale School of Public Health.
Defense Industrial Base:
DOD Efforts to Develop Domestic Biomanufacturing.
www.gao.gov/products/gao...
I… I need a minute.
On March 3 in DC, join us for the Johns Hopkins H5N1 Influenza Preparedness & Response Forum! H5N1 is already threatening livestock and poultry, but if it gains sustained human-to-human transmission, challenges will escalate quickly. We have to plan, now.
www.eventbrite.com/e/johns-hopk...
What is… AMAZING!
After nearly 3.5 years of deliberations, researchers concluded their independent assessment of the origin of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
go.nature.com/4qUxijx
WTF?
Useful, as always.
“These latest findings once again underline the need to hold Russia accountable for its repeated violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention and, in this instance, the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.”
This was my question as well.
Joint Statement by the UK, Sweden, France, Germany and The Netherlands on Alexei Navalny's death
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Russia killed Alexei Navalny with frog toxin, UK and allies say
Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation
Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The TAK-003 story: key decisions that shaped development of a tetravalent dengue vaccine
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Moderna are being very careful in their responses about next steps here but given the likely arbitrariness and unreasonableness of an outright refusal to file (let alone the economic impacts), I expect they will appeal, with a range of options available: trendspotting.sidley.com/trends/fda
NEW: The FDA just shot down Moderna's new flu shot. From me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
A chance to learn from the best in the business.
Macbeth: SHIT
FT: An oral history of the Fed’s Covid-19 crisis
www.ft.com/content/cb9a...
We commend Senators Tom Cotton & Amy Klobuchar for intro legislation to est. a fed biosecurity framework. "This bill sets the U.S. on a path to continue its global leadership in biotech innovation, while enhancing our national resilience to emerging biological risks" said @t-inglesby.bsky.social.
Once had privilege of listening to Ian McKellen perform at Oxford. Seemed timely then - even more so now.
BREAKING: Federal health officials on Monday announced dramatic revisions to the slate of vaccines recommended for American children, reducing the number of diseases prevented by routine shots to 11 from 17.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/h...
JID: A BEACON for novel disease threats: Leveraging AI for informal event-based outbreak surveillance
Nahid Bhadelia et al bit.ly/4joYsNd @bhadeliamd.bsky.social
The U.S. will very likely lose its measles-elimination status, and Americans will have to confront how difficult this virus can be to control, Katherine J. Wu reports: theatln.tc/bZcb1Wmr
What a haul.
Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments Rural departments have long relied on cheap software solutions to keep their operations running. But fire chiefs report sharp price increases as investors have entered the market.
Private equity must be stopped.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...