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cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

My amazing rep that only served for the betterment of her community. The special election to fill her seat is tomorrow. Honor Melissa, Mark and Gilbert and show up to vote. It’s only a democracy, if we can keep it.

Great to see call to action by @nmdp-org.bsky.social at our local bus stop in NYC. Register to be a stem cell transplant donor and save a life! #bmtsm #bloodcancers

Thank you @raskin.house.gov. This rhetoric needs to stop. We are still grieving the loss of Melissa, Mark and Gilbert in MN and this just makes it so much worse.

Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Donor Selection: Contemporary Guidelines from the NMDP/CIBMTR Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) remains a curative therapy for many patients with hematologic malignancies, bone marrow failure sy…

Just Published in Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Journal: Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Donor Selection: Contemporary Guidelines from the NMDP/CIBMTR. Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

After a partially matched transplant, #GVHD can result. Previously, partially matched donors caused more GVHD than fully matched donors in cancer patients. A new approach, using cyclophosphamide, can prevent most GVHD. Read more: cibmtr.org/Files/Patien...

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A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”

Via Sam Stein on twitter

I guess we’ve learned enough 🤷‍♂️. So incredibly shortsighted and clearly a sign of more to come…

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Attending #EBMT25 beginning this weekend? Make sure to check out CIBMTR's abstracts. You can view the full list, here: cibmtr.org/Files/Meetin...

Bravo @npr.org more of this.

benion Grieving a wasted life At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to re-elected in contrast to standing up for the reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades greater good? were devoted to protecting America. Sacri A compromised Supreme Court recently fices were made both by myself and my fam- trotted out a shallow token standards of Ily in military service. The tip of the spear: conduct for themselves. Apparently it's Countless weeks over the years were spent not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people? living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since. way?" The purpose: if required, be airborne Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un- in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly: of interest abound. The rule of law is situ- ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet- ational if adhered to at all. America can no nam provided a brief interlude, but overall, longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of this long line of silent sentinels stood firm power and wealth driven by unquenchable to protect America by deterring external greed has left service above self and Con- threats to our freedoms and way of life stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued Recently the VA said exposure to Agent with a sense of service. Orange is the probable cause of the can- I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than military pilots to have significantly higher founded on mere beli…

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

Trump has a nerve to talk about cancer rates when he is gutting federal cancer research

Awakening from REMS: ASTCT 80/20 Ongoing Recommendations for Safe Use of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells The first six chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapies approved in the United States have Risk Evaluation Mitigation Strategies (REMS) progr…

Important work from @astct.bsky.social Awakening from REMS: ASTCT 80/20 Ongoing Recommendations for Safe Use of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells #CARTcells www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

U of M president says Trump’s health cuts ‘direct attack’ on research there University of Minnesota President Rebecca Cunningham said the decision to limit “indirect” support could prove costly for health care research. This is just part of President Donald Trump’s budget-cut...

University of Minnesota President Rebecca Cunningham accused the federal government of launching a “direct attack” on her institution’s public service mission by cutting the funding it receives to equip and maintain its research facilities.

CD4+ T-Cell Lymphoma Harboring a Chimeric Antigen Receptor Integration in TP53 | NEJM Malignant T-cell transformation after chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has been described, but the contribution of CAR integration to oncogenesis is not clear. Here we report a case o...

Important report in @nejm.org from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social CD4+ T-Cell Lymphoma Harboring a Chimeric Antigen Receptor Integration in TP53 #CARTcells #mmsm www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....