Feasibility and safety of cellular therapy for in-utero repair of myelomeningocele (CuRe Trial): a first-in-human, phase 1, single-arm study This first-in-human treatment consisting of allogeneic, live stem cells showed no cell-related adverse effects. The therapy was assessed as sufficiently safe to proceed with non-staggered enrolment of...

Feasibility and safety of cellular therapy for in-utero repair of myelomeningocele (CuRe Trial): a first-in-human, phase 1, single-arm study - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

US grant applicants surge at prestigious European research agency Rush for funds to relocate laboratories to Europe is latest hint of a US brain drain.

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Doctor on How Screen Time Hurts Kids' Cognitive Development YouTube video by C-SPAN

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‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.

‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers www.nature.com/articles/d41...

2025: an annus horribilis for health in the USA The US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices vote on Dec 5 to no longer recommend the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose, which had ensured that babies exposed to hepatitis B would not later develo...

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New postdoc position available in the Heczey lab focused on state-of-the-art bioengineering.
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A flood of Chinese graduate students in STEM was a boon to U.S. students Study shows the influx allowed U.S. programs to expand enrollment and also benefited local businesses

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Opinion | Athlete of the Year Tom Brady, you’re no Natalie Grabow.

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What our analysis of 900 firms shows about their values We crunch the numbers on what employees think in 19 industries

From The Economist: What our analysis of 900 firms shows about their values
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No lectures, exams, essays: inside a twenty-first-century university Some innovative higher-education institutions are reimagining pedagogy by prioritizing local needs over research and international student recruitment. Anna McKie visits one of them.

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Discussions are ongoing about new academic models. Here is one idea.

Join our team to develop cutting edge gene expression switches for cancer immunotherapy!
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

Nine of the CDC directors over the past 48 years have a lot to say about what RFK Jr is doing vs health of Americans
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Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

Interesting post about the growing importance of @bsky.app as a better alternative to X.
Curious why @nature.com still does not have links to post their articles to the Bluesky...
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Cancer Blasters - Run of Hope Seattle The Run of Hope benefits pediatric cancer research at Seattle Children's. Please join me this year!

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CDC vaccine advisers recommend Merck’s RSV therapy for babies A CDC advisory panel on Thursday voted 5-2 to recommend the use of a new preventative RSV therapy in babies, Merck’s Enflonsia.

A CDC advisory panel on Thursday voted 5-2 to recommend the use of a new preventative RSV therapy in babies, Merck’s Enflonsia.
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NIH will reinstate 900 grants in response to court order Projects touching on sensitive topics such as DEI had been illegally terminated, judge found

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

How to make America healthy: the real problems — and best fixes The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations. Chronic disease is part of the cause, but so are guns, drugs and cars.

How to make America healthy again...
Interesting, little emphasis on the country's setup to sit the whole day. Get in the car, drive to work, sit in the office, then drive home. This is not what people are evolved to do..
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Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade Nature - Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with...

The team captured data from ALL children in France entering first grade. Beyond the insights, the conduct of this study is exceptional.
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How China is vying to attract the world’s top scientific talent Hundreds of policies across the country have been designed to lure researchers and new graduates to settle there.

Why would anyone from China want to come to the US to study, live, work, innovate etc?
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Medicaid cuts, mortality, and health-care expenditure in the USA The United States Congress has proposed cuts to Medicaid, reversing the Affordable Care Act expansion.1 These cuts could increase mortality and financial hardship for enrollees while straining health-...

14660 excess deaths predicted after the proposed Medicaid cuts. What Trump master plan is worth this price???
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

Cutting research while increasing defense spending (while the US is not at war).
Stupidity on steroids.
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Major European institutes join race to save US science data Nature - As the administration of US President Donald Trump slashes budgets, crucial climate and other data sets could disappear.

Several research institutes in Germany are joining a worldwide grassroots effort to save science data sets that researchers fear could be deleted by US President Donald Trump’s administration

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HOW the super rich will impoverish you and your kids YouTube video by Garys Economics

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Bovine H5N1 binds poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors - Nature Nature - Bovine H5N1 binds poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors

After 8 months of peer review, our manuscript was published today @nature.com showing that bovine H5N1 viruses bind poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors. We now know that the virus is only 1 HA substitution away from efficiently binding human receptors.

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NIH's 40% off budget, DOE cost cap blocked, educators sue, and Seth Rogen defends science: Trump Tracker Follow President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally

NIH's 40% off budget, DOE cost cap blocked, educators sue, and Seth Rogen defends science: Trump Tracker | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

A meta-analysis of technology use and cognitive aging - Nature Human Behaviour The first generation who engaged with digital technologies has reached the age where risks of dementia emerge, and the question emerges how digital technologies have affected cognitive capabilities. This meta-analysis synthesized existing evidence of 57 studies, finding that the use of digital technologies was associated with a reduced risk of cognitive impairment.

Widespread use of digital technology may be associated with lower rates of cognitive decline and cognitive impairment in adults over 50 years old, according to a meta-analysis published in Nature Human Behaviour. 🧪

How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts Nature analyses which fields of science and US states are being hit hardest by grant terminations.

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Leaving A Mark On Patients - TimmermanReport.com Leading a nonprofit that helps kids and families with terrible diseases requires a certain ability to roll with the punches. That feeling hit last week when I heard about Peter Marks’ forced resignati...

Profoundly unprofessional and immoral behavior by the Trump and his administration.
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