Our most practical episode yet for people who want to dabble in biotech
As of 2022, you can hallucinate protein structures using AI similar to Midjourney (RFDiffusion) -> create amino acid strings for them (ProteinMPNN) -> validate with AlphaFold
Biology becomes engineering…
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Tens of thousands of people take to streets for London Trans+ Pride 2025
Event becomes biggest of its kind as more than 100,000 turn out to support its ‘existence and resistance’ theme
Tens of thousands people took part in a trans rights event in London, about x100 the asylum protests today. Less covered, except for Guardian,either as politics or for lack of violent threat.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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We need a Saloni recommended reads list!
07.07.2025 22:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Great Q&A in Politico with James Heathers, who is leading the Medical Evidence Project to "find bad medical evidence before it kills people."
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Lyn Redwood, a former leader of Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group that lists US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a founder, is scheduled to give the presentation Thursday at a meeting of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
The slides, posted online Tuesday, cite a 2008 study in the journal Neurotoxicology by "Berman RE, et al," called "Low-level neonatal thimerosal exposure: Long-term consequences in the brain." The presentation claimed that results from a study in newborn rats suggest long-term
"neuroimmune effects" from the vaccine preservative.
The citation appears to refer to Dr.
Robert F. Berman, a professor emeritus at the University of California Davis, whose research has focused on brain injury and neurodevelopmental disorders.
However, "I don't have a publication in Neurotoxicology by that title," Berman told CNN. "The reference in the slide set, as far as I know - at least with me as a coauthor - does not exist."
Berman did publish a paper with a similar title in 2008, but it was in a different journal and involved different animals. It also came to dramatically different conclusions.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is hiring Lyn Redwood, a nurse and the former head of a group critics have denounced as anti-vaccine, to work in its vaccine safety office, multiple CDC officials tell CBS News.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is hiring Lyn Redwood, a nurse and the former head of a group critics have denounced as anti-vaccine, to work in its vaccine safety office, multiple CDC officials tell CBS News.
Redwood was the president of the group now called Children's Health Defense, which lists as its founder Robert F.
Kennedy Jr., who now oversees the CDC as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Children's Health Defense has sued to curb vaccine requirements, petitioned federal agencies to revoke vaccine authorizations and spread misinformation about vaccines.
Kennedy was listed as the group's founder and chairman before becoming the nation's top health official in the second Trump administration.
A Children’s Health Defense crony who just presented a loony deck on thimerosal in vaccines *with fake citations* has…been hired to study vaccine safety at the CDC.
Lysenkoism. Incompetents failing up. And yes: this is how much of a zealot RFK Jr is.
(CNN reported on the deck. CBS on the hiring.)
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RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/
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They're reliable basic hotels. Unless you want to spend a lot of time in the hotel beyond sleeping and showering, I'd recommend it
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In French they are often referred to as camemberts
15.03.2025 22:21 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I haven't seen one of these - wish it existed! There is an unfortunate dearth of clear writing on the history of global health that focuses on just reporting the facts of what happened when
14.03.2025 12:10 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Analysis | The White House’s wildly inaccurate claims about USAID spending
Eleven out of 12 claims about the agency’s work are misleading, wrong or lack context.
Musk is rumored to spend $40M on Super Bowl ads with his wildly distorted claims attacking USAID. Don’t believe them.
The last round are debunked below. wapo.st/3ErHBZM
And I'll unpack the reality in this 🧵, too. 1/13
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