A fascinating advance in extracellular biology — Claire’s new pre-print unveils Thrombospondin Encapsulated Dense Particles (ThrEDs), a new class of non-vesicular extracellular particles with potent wound-healing & anti-fibrotic activity.
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ExtracellularParticles
ASM, ASBMB, ASCB & FASEB are deeply disappointed in the Supreme Court ruling allowing cancellation of $800M in NIH grants, threatening labs, jobs, and early-career scientists. Stable funding is vital for U.S. science.
Read more: www.ascb.org/society-news...
🧪 The personal testimony of a scientist at Harvard Med School now incarcerated by ICE in Louisiana:
“I haven’t been in my lab or worked with my microscope since February, when I was detained by ICE as I was returning to Boston from a vacation in France”
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
Researchers at Rice University have developed a new machine learning model that makes optical spectroscopy data easier and quicker to interpret >>> www.biotechniques.com/computationa... 🧪
24 h of crowd power ➡️ live table of every placebo-controlled vaccine RCT
- 27 trials logged so far (>2 M participants)
- Control-type tag = saline vs active comparator
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105 controlled vaccine trials.
110 yrs. 1.8 M participants.
All in one live, crowd-sourced sheet.
Built by contributors worldwide to counter the myth that vaccines weren’t tested with controls.
Quiet work still breaks through the noise.
www.bradspellberg.com/vaccine-rcts
@bradspellberg.bsky.social
The plots of disaster movies that portray the end of civilization often begin with high-level Government Officials ignoring the warnings of Scientists.
One of several lesson learned from the 2.5 hour @Netflix Documentary — Don’t Look Up (2021).
Trumpty-Dumpty is defunding PBS. What he calls "bias" some of us call "facts Trumpty-Dumpty doesn't like."
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
