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The multi-state infant botulism outbreak tied to ByHeart Whole Nutrition infant formula has reached 51 cases. The outbreak continues to quietly grow. Just a few weeks ago there were only 13 cases www.fda.gov/food/outbrea...

US facing second measles surge this year as outbreak accelerates in South Carolina | CNN As multiple measles outbreaks simmer across the United States, cases are accumulating nearly as quickly as when the West Texas outbreak was at its peak this spring.

The United States is facing its 2nd measles surge this year as an outbreak accelerates in South Carolina. Multiple measles outbreaks are simmering across the country, cases are accumulating nearly as quickly as when the West Texas outbreak was at its peak this spring 👇

Medical devices become Costa Rica’s top export in 2025 - UPI.com Medical devices are Costa Rica's top export in 2025, overtaking knowledge-intensive services after a decade of growth by the medical tech industry.

Medical devices are now Costa Rica's top export, following a decade of growth & tax incentives for multinational biomedical corporations. The Costa Rican Foreign Trade Promotion Agency, projects total exports this year at $34 billion, up almost 6% from about $32.8 billion in 2024👇

The multi-state infant botulism outbreak tied to ByHeart Whole Nutrition infant formula has reached 51 cases. The outbreak continues to quietly grow. Just a few weeks ago there were only 13 cases www.fda.gov/food/outbrea...

What Happens When Trump Gets His Way With Science Harvard’s School of Public Health is broken.

What Happens When Trump Gets His Way With Science

www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

This HIV Expert Refused To Censor Data, Then Quit the CDC - KFF Health News HIV physician John Weiser talks about why complying with President Donald Trump’s orders to erase transgender people is bad for science and society. And he notes that acquiescing didn’t spare the CDC ...

This #HIV Expert Refused To Censor Data, Then Quit the #CDC

@amymaxmen.bsky.social @kffhealthnews.org

#mRNA #COVID #vaccines tied to drop in death rate for 4 years

Vaccinated adults had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

RFK Jr falsely claims vaccines are not safe because of toxins, but he has no problem with high levels of toxins including mercury & formaldehyde in the air our children have to breath. #MAHA #Ivax2protect

A reminder that supplement salesperson Mercola profited by selling Vit A as an alternative to measles vaccination and saw another opportunity to profit by calling Vit K injections a vaccine to sell his oral Vit K to antivaxxers.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

You are invited to join a webinar: Long COVID Treatment Trial-Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T): TBD. Registration is required and after registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webin... In this session, we will share updates on how the Long COVID Treatment Trial-Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T) is progressing and discuss why continued engagement from all study participants is important for gen...

Thanks to the Long COVID community, eligibility screening for LoCITT-T is now closed, 41 days after it oopened.

We'll share more about what's ahead on 12/17 at 2:30 eastern / 11:30 pacific.
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Volume 18 Issue 11 | Disease Models & Mechanisms | The Company of Biologists Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM) is an Open Access journal that aims to advance novel insight into the mechanism, diagnosis and therapy of human disease.

In this issue, we focus on #foreverchemicals, #pollutants that build up in the environment and living organisms, resist removal, and are increasingly tied to developmental and health issues.

Details about the featured articles are collected in the thread.

journals.biologists.com/dmm/issue/18...

I interviewed @hackwriter.bsky.social of @kffhealthnews.org about their analysis identifying 170 #hospitals at risk of #flooding in the U.S. I was especially intrigued that they didn't use FEMA #flood risk maps, which are journalists' most accessible resource, despite known limitations. 🧪🌎

Michael Sheetz, #LaskerLaureate, was born #OTD. He received a #LaskerAward for discoveries concerning cytoskeletal motor proteins, machines that move cargoes within cells, contract muscles, and enable cell movements. 🧪 @columbiauniversity.bsky.social ow.ly/8O6B30mlgIJ

Scientists engineer microbial teams to transform mixed plastics into valuable products La Jolla, California—December 11, 2025—Each year, the world produces more than 400 million metric tons of plastic, much of which ends up in...

A circular economy turns waste into resources—and JCVI scientists are making it real. We are engineering microbes to upcycle mixed plastic waste into valuable products like lycopene and lipids. No sorting, no landfills—just innovation for a sustainable future. 🧪🧬

www.jcvi.org/media-center...

House Democrat Seeks to Impeach Kennedy for Undercutting Public Health

Congresswoman Haley Stevens, a Michigan Democrat has filed articles of impeachment against RFK. She accuses RFK of assaults on public health constituting high crimes & misdemeanors by delaying biomedical innovation thru “haphazard” firings of working scientists. The NY Times calls her effort futile👇

'Freebirth' Movement Is Dangerous to Moms but Reflects Real Concerns, Ob/Gyns Say Recent investigation sparks conversation about freebirth, autonomy, and distrust in medicine

Capitalizing on growing "medical distrust," influencers are selling guides to "freebirths"—medically unassisted births—& "wild pregnancies," those w/out prenatal care. The Free Birth Society, rakes in millions thru a podcast & social media. Some freebirth moms lost babies to treatable complications👇

A phase I vaccine trial is signaling potential promise that the vax can prevent triple-negative breast cancer, one of the most aggressive & devastating forms of the disease. If successful, it's possible the vaccine design can be applied to other types of cancer www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...

The first patients have been helped by cancer-fighting cells made directly in their bodies Novel approach could be faster, and cheaper, than making the cells in the lab—but safety concerns linger

The 1st patients have been helped by cancer-fighting cells made directly in their bodies. The novel approach could be faster & cheaper than making the cells in the lab—and while safety concerns linger, it's a big 1st step 👇

Inhibition of CXCL10 and IFN-γ ameliorates myocarditis in preclinical models of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination Preclinical models of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination revealed a targetable CXCL10–IFN-γ axis that drives cytokine-induced cardiac injury.

Covid mRNA vaccines have a rare link to myocarditis adverse events (~30 cases per million 2nd doses).
Extensive work in mice shows two inflammation mediators that appear to be the mediators and a plant-derived anti-inflammatory (genistein) that blocks it
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Uncovering differences in rye and wheat degradation by human gut #microbiota applying a quantitative multi-metaOmics in vitro approach

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #OpenAccess #MicroSky #food

The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires

🧪🧪A stunning discovery at an archaeological dig in the UK is rewriting the timeline of when humans first made fire --
The new discovery pushes the origin of human fire-making back by more than 350,000 years, far earlier than previously thought

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

How deliberately giving people illnesses is supercharging medicine The covid-19 pandemic opened the door to once-controversial human challenge trials. Now, volunteers are willingly catching norovirus and influenza to reveal how our immune systems really fight back

Controlled infection studies offer unique insights into immunity and vaccine performance. MUSICC is building standardised protocols and data frameworks to safely maximise impact and global collaboration.

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How do flu viruses infect cells? New microscopy method captures complex ‘dance’ Influenza A viruses have been observed entering cells thanks to a new microscopy technique.

How do flu viruses infect cells? Researchers have developed a novel microscopy platform that shines a light on the process in unparalleled detail.

Read more here >>> www.biotechniques.com/imaging/how-... 🧪

'Freebirth' Movement Is Dangerous to Moms but Reflects Real Concerns, Ob/Gyns Say Recent investigation sparks conversation about freebirth, autonomy, and distrust in medicine

Capitalizing on growing "medical distrust," influencers are selling guides to "freebirths"—medically unassisted births—& "wild pregnancies," those w/out prenatal care. The Free Birth Society, rakes in millions thru a podcast & social media. Some freebirth moms lost babies to treatable complications👇

A phase I vaccine trial is signaling potential promise that the vax can prevent triple-negative breast cancer, one of the most aggressive & devastating forms of the disease. If successful, it's possible the vaccine design can be applied to other types of cancer www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...

The first patients have been helped by cancer-fighting cells made directly in their bodies Novel approach could be faster, and cheaper, than making the cells in the lab—but safety concerns linger

The 1st patients have been helped by cancer-fighting cells made directly in their bodies. The novel approach could be faster & cheaper than making the cells in the lab—and while safety concerns linger, it's a big 1st step 👇

House Democrat Seeks to Impeach Kennedy for Undercutting Public Health

Congresswoman Haley Stevens, a Michigan Democrat has filed articles of impeachment against RFK. She accuses RFK of assaults on public health constituting high crimes & misdemeanors by delaying biomedical innovation thru “haphazard” firings of working scientists. The NY Times calls her effort futile👇

Drug resistance in pancreatic cancer: Scientists pinpoint major and minor signaling pathways that drive it Cancer drug resistance is the devastating reason that treatments fail and cancers metastasize, spreading to distant sites seeding new resistant tumors elsewhere in the body.

Cancer drug resistance is a major problem in the treatment of pancreatic cancer. Resistance is promoted by multiple molecular mechanisms w/in the cancer cells themselves. Some of those mechanisms had remained stubbornly elusive—until now. Scientists pinpoint major & minor pathways that drive it👇

155 years old this month, Lothar Meyer published a response to Mendeleev's periodic table, as an update, in Ann. Chem. Suppl., 1870, 7, 354-364. A "periodic table" was in the air, though Mendeleev published 1st. #ChemSky 🧪 See here: www.rod.beavon.org.uk/lotharme.htm

I just read this out loud to my wife. If you have a spouse or partner, try it, especially if they don’t know what’s coming. Hearing it out loud makes the bonkers-ness sink in.

Reading this to unsuspecting people should be a TikTok meme.