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Links for you. Science: As measles cases climb, these 9 diseases threaten comebacks NIH Director Bhattacharya signals an end to the affirmative action program for ESI COVID’s origins: what we do and don’t know How LLMs Actually Generate Text The … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: How Trump’s FDA is breaking his promise to America’s patients (et tu, Murdoch?) What Makary’s Plan For Expanding OTC Drug Access Could Mean For Safety 3,500 years of sheeppox virus evolution inferred from archaeological and codicological … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: Americans Are Uniquely Infatuated With Bald Eagles. Too Bad Most of Us Have No Idea What They’re Actually Like. Breakthrough Discovery Targets Virus Infecting 95% of the World’s Population Virus Evolution: Scaling up efforts to target … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: The U.S. Military Is Reviving Microbes from 40,000-Year-Old Ice RFK Jr. is winning MAHA’s vaccine war South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark. Single vaccine could protect against … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: New approach roughly predicts when Alzheimer’s symptoms begin The GLP-1 dream is over. What now, for patients who’ve relied on it for weight loss? Chromosome Testing Will Take Sports Back To The Dark Ages Galápagos park … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: Why Some People Thrive on Four Hours of Sleep Maryland faces another spate of viral infections. This time it’s mumps. A familiar move with a new twist: Trump tries to cut CDC funds he just signed … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: Experts warn NIH director now leading CDC will push ‘RFK Jr’s agenda’ N.I.H. Director Will Temporarily Run C.D.C. in Leadership Shake-Up Revitalizing actinobacteria research: an urgent response to the antimicrobial resistance crisis The 80% power lie … Continue reading →