Olga Vorobyova

A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...

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...
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What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

The future is spatial

@10xgenomics.bsky.social @dylanwebster.bsky.social

Fun to share our experience using tissue micro arrays to lower cost and increase throughput in spatial transcriptomic studies.

Single Cell & Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.

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Jimmy Carter was perhaps the most virtuous of all America’s presidents The humble peanut farmer who went to the White House died on December 29th, aged 100

“In America, his career raised the disquieting thought that it might be impossible for a really effective president to also be a really good man.” www.economist.com/obituary/202...

I finally invested in recreating a good portion of my original X feed to move over for good, and wow is Bluesky ever refreshing.