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like clockwork once again andy byford achieved something amazing and paradigm-changing with almost no resources and was immediately undermined by the most dumbass politicians in history

@questionableway @mcinthedc Also anti vaccine

@mcinthedc he was anti gmo and anti nuclear for a while idk what he’s up to now

in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty five we are NOT doing this anymore. stop

@atlanticesque Make the country MegaBoston

I basically think we should start laying out a street grid and never stop until the whole country is blanketed by it

Bro we literally got actual dire wolves before we got Winds of Winter

TIME's new cover: The dire wolf is back after over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for other extinct species ti.me/4jlJB54

@ericprydz starting the tour with Lesson One and ending the tour with Human Behaviour 👏🏻

The entire STAT staff is updating this story about layoffs at HHS. There will be a lot of info. But the short version is this: a lot of the people who would keep drugs safe and effective, to protect patients in trials, and to fight bird flu and future pandemics are gone -- even though it seems the scientists in charge of directly reviewing new medicines are mostly protected at FDA. Per Robert Califf: "[The FDA] as we’ve known it is finished, with most of the leaders with institutional knowledge and a deep understanding of product development and safety no longer employed.” statnews.com/2025/04/01/hhs…

@mshuster09 @ericprydz Riders goes so hard

8 years ago tonight on the terrace @ericprydz

@gmoney373737 @ericprydz Saw this floating around 🤷🏻‍♂️

I wonder if we will ever know the reasoning as to why @ericprydz decided to drop “ Call On Me “ that night . my mind can’t stop thinking about it or watching it .

My younger sister has CF. Her whole life we have emotionally prepared for her to not make it past her 30s. Now, I will get to see her live a long life, maybe start a family or dive into a career. It makes me sad how we've villainized biomedical science when it has changed lives.

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11 children who were blind can now see with gene therapy

@MassJumbo 11) The Citgo sign

List of Allies of Massachusetts 1) Cop Slide 2) Rhode Island 3) Provincetown 4) Blue Line 5) The Bulger Family 6) Quabbin Resevoir 7) Dunkin 8) baby whales 9) Boston accents 10) The ghost of Ted Kennedy

Synthetic biologists have the know-how and ambition to retool whole genomes, but hidden complexity continues to surprise them go.nature.com/4hJ8maY

CAR-T-cell therapy treated a girl with a rare childhood cancer, raising hopes for future recipients of the approach go.nature.com/3Qt68QR

Even FDA employees who were covered by user fees were fired by email yesterday—even though those firings don't save $ for the US government & could delay FDA reviews of new drugs. This was done even before the Senate hearings began for Makary—nominee for new FDA Commissioner

The fusion of natural, human, and machine intelligence—a synthesis that I call polyintelligence—promises solutions to some of the world’s most intractable problems. Read more in the linked commentary piece in @FastCompany: fastcompany.com/91274947/nouba…

🚨BREAKING: Our report on the first-ever pig kidney xenotransplant in a living human with ESRD is now published in @NEJM! A major milestone in transplantation, paving the way for a new era of organ replacement @mgh_transplant @MGHKidneys @eGenesisBio more: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

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