Monthly Archives: May 2025

Links 5/31/25

Posted on May 31, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Amira: gene-space de Bruijn graphs to improve the detection of AMR genes from bacterial long reads An Anti-Science MAHA Extremist Is Playing a Major Role at the FDA. On first glance, Dr. Vinay Prasad’s medical credentials … Continue reading →

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Links 5/30/25

Posted on May 30, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: On a remote Australian island, the birds are so full of plastic they crunch NIST set its new atomic clock in motion, and it’s astoundingly precise Plastic may be warming the planet more than we thought … Continue reading →

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Links 5/29/25

Posted on May 29, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths CRISPR is used in landmark treatment to correct genetic misspelling of a single patient RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory AI, … Continue reading →

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Links 5/28/25

Posted on May 28, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: WHO advisers say current strains OK for COVID vaccine production Gene editing helped a desperately ill baby thrive. Scientists say it could someday treat millions A promising genetic treatment tailor-made for a baby born with a … Continue reading →

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Links 5/27/25

Posted on May 27, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Scientists estimate higher rate of new-onset diabetes after COVID than in general population A Baby Received a Custom Crispr Treatment in Record Time IQ2MC: A New Framework to Infer Phylogenetic Time Trees Using IQ-TREE 3 and … Continue reading →

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Lies, Damn Lies, and Democratic Pollsters

Posted on May 27, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Over the last couple of weeks, the Democratic House Majority Fund declared that the party should stay away from invective, like referring to the proposed Republican budget as “the MAGA Murder Budget.” Leaving aside whether using the phrase MAGA Murder … Continue reading →

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Links 5/26/25

Posted on May 26, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention. Sanders Releases Report Documenting Trump’s War on Science (report here) Viking DNA helps reveal when HIV-fighting gene mutation emerged: 9,000 years ago near the Black … Continue reading →

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Harvard’s Board of Trustees Is Smarter Than Many Businesses and Some Countries

Posted on May 26, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

And it pains me to say that. From an interview about Harvard’s chances of holding off the Trump administration onslaught (boldface mine): [Question]: Is there anything happening behind the scenes to de-escalate this? [Reply]: Harvard’s board, as far as we … Continue reading →

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Links 5/25/25

Posted on May 25, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Trump’s ‘fear factor’: Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate Six striking images showcase scientific fieldwork Ten Vital Services Provided by NOAA (Beyond the National Weather Service) The Pandemic’s Echo: A Population-Based Assessment of MMR Rates … Continue reading →

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Links 5/24/25

Posted on May 24, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Lysenkoism 2.0 and the dismantling of the NIH. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “make America healthy again” is basically Lysenko 2.0. It’s come to the NIH and is destroying the crown jewel of US biomedical research with … Continue reading →

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