Lekven Lab Halloween 2025!

Hey, organized are great. But they cannot replace animal models. Organoids need to be validated against animal models.

Academics and scientists take note:
We are in the fight of our lives for education and freedom. Penn and UVA are losing that fight, in part because faculty were not unified behind their leaders.

The fight for science is the fight for universities. They are the same. 🧪

Cutting all the budgets for these organizations will tear apart this amazing thing that we have in the U.S. What a disgrace.

No immediate payback or payoff was expected, but the impact of all this affects all of us now: the U.S. has been at the forefront of so many technical advances in medicine and beyond, it’s incredible.

V. Bush wrote a lengthy response that outlined several things, and the effects of this were the formation of the NSF to fund non-biomedical research and train scientists and the buildup of the NIH and its funding of research activities across the country.

The recommendations were asked for with the knowledge that investing in research has enormous benefits for jobs, for training, for medicine and for the economy.

1. how to communicate scientific progress made during the war, 2. what can be done to push progress in medicine and fighting disease, 3. what can government do to support and push research by public and private organizations, 4. can a program be made to develop scientific talent in the U.S.

Towards the end of the war, FDR wrote a letter to V. Bush that was of great consequence, instructing him to provide recommendations on four points

The director of the OSRD was a man named Vannevar Bush, who was himself an engineer, inventor and academic.

The reason for our incredible capabilities goes back to 1944. During World War II, the scientific effort in the U.S. for the war was coordinated by the Office of Scientific Research and Development, the OSRD.

The reason for that is the strength of our university systems and research infrastructure, or at least it has been. it’s also not random that we in the U.S. have been privileged to have this.

Happy Independence Day! Today has me thinking about one of the things that has made the United States such a leader in the world: public investment in education and research. The U.S. has the greatest scientific capabilities and infrastructure, hands down.

Heia Norge!

Thousands upon thousands here in #houston for #nokings! What a peaceful expression of disagreement with everything that is great about our country being torn apart!

#nokings Houston! Showing up! No Kings!

Coronavirus can destroy the placenta and lead to stillbirths New research suggests the coronavirus can invade and destroy the placenta and lead to stillbirths in infected women.

“A CDC report found that among pregnant U.S. women infected with COVID-19, about 1 in 80 deliveries was a stillbirth — the loss of a fetus anytime after 20 weeks. That’s compared with 1 in 155 among uninfected women”

Pregnant women need access to Covid boosters.

TW for photos of Covid placenta:

It’s wild watching every advanced agency developed during my lifetime be destroyed on purpose, by people who want to profit from it and cheered on by those who will be hurt the most because they don't understand how things work.

Grant freezes versus terminations feel different, but they have the same practical effect.

We should start treating freezes as terminations, both of which can be undone by HHS / NIH whenever they want—or by court order if they refuse. They’re all illegal.

Let's stay hopeful & vigilant! 🌟

Pursuing truth unites us 🔍✨

Embracing diverse ideas in science ensures a healthier future for all! 🌈💡

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The termination of NIH grants threatens scientific freedom & could erase entire research fields for political reasons

When research is stifled by political rhetoric, every American suffers

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Happy international day of transgender visibility. May everyone one day be able to live as their authentic selves wither fear or shame.
Except Nazis.

99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research.
Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts.
It will directly impact YOU.
#ScienceNOTSilence

FedFreeze.org Fight Trump's funding freeze to protect lifesaving care and research.

Unfortunately, there was another round of FUNDED grants cancelled yesterday. These illegal cuts stop projects that have been in progress for years, interrupt lifesaving research, and destroy the public good of science in the US.

If you were impacted, please share you story with us: fedfreeze.org

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

Oh, and unelected a-holes don’t destroy it.

Research infrastructure, federal funding for science and our university systems are uniquely powerful things about our country. Politicians, please don’t destroy it.

You can't use the parks budget to redo your backyard.

You can't use the highway budget to repave your driveway.

You can't use the police budget to hire a personal security guard.

And rich people can't use our public school budget to pay for private school.

Say no to vouchers.

Fight for science!