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Steve Flack @vitaminsteve.com · 11/09/2026
that’s it, we’ve peaked. Call it a day, go start your weekends.
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NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Russell Vought has been deleting some of your comments on the proposed OMB rule to politicize grantmaking. Particularly ones that mention him by name and that his daughter was treated for CF with an NIH-funded therapeutic.
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Comments on OMB research rule mysteriously removed from federal website
Some comments on a proposed OMB research rule have been mysteriously removed from a public-facing government webpage.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
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Ryan Cross @scienceboss.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Three deaths in China's investigator-initiated trials, recently revealed by @science.org + @retractionwatch.com, @statnews.com, and @endpts.com have led US lawmakers to ask the FDA to increase its scrutiny of clinical data from China, @maxbayer.bsky.social reports: endpoints.news/china-iit-de...
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Exclusive: Two GOP lawmakers call on FDA to increase scrutiny of Chinese trial data following deaths
GOP Reps. Moolenaar & Cline urge FDA's Diamantas to reject Chinese clinical trial data unless sites are audited annually, citing patient safety risks & 3 deaths.
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Ryan Cross @scienceboss.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Three deaths have shaken trust in China's light-touch clinical trial system. It “should serve as an intense warning signal of what can happen when you strip away oversight in the name of speed,” @hollylynchez.bsky.social told me More in my deep dive for @endpts.com endpoints.news/three-deaths...
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Three deaths in China shake trust in the country's speedy clinical trial system
China’s cheap, fast and quiet system for testing cutting-edge medicines is facing scrutiny after the deaths of three people in investigator-initiated trials.
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Endpoints News @endpts.com · 18/08/2026
Exclusive: A third patient death emerges from China's opaque clinical trials — this time in CAR-T. endpoints.news/exclusive-th...
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Exclusive: Third death in China's popular but opaque trials revealed, this time in CAR-T
RiboX confirms a patient died in its unregulated China trial for RXIM002, an in vivo CAR-T therapy — the third such disclosed death in recent weeks.
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Ryan Cross @scienceboss.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Exclusive: A man with an autoimmune disease died after receiving RiboX's "in vivo CAR-T therapy" in China's popular but little-regulated investigator-initiated trials. My story for @endpts.com has the details: endpoints.news/exclusive-th... Have a tip? Contact me on Signal: RyanCross.25
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Exclusive: Third death in China's popular but opaque trials revealed, this time in CAR-T
RiboX confirms a patient died in its unregulated China trial for RXIM002, an in vivo CAR-T therapy — the third such disclosed death in recent weeks.
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Endpoints News @endpts.com · 09/07/2026
ARPA-H is awarding up to $160M across seven teams to develop custom gene editing treatments for rare diseases, though some researchers involved say the funding falls short of initial expectations.
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ARPA-H bookmarks $160M for custom gene editing treatments. Is it enough?
ARPA-H taps 7 teams for up to $160M to build bespoke gene editing drugs, betting on Baby KJ's playbook — but some scientists say funding falls short.
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Ryan Cross @scienceboss.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
When we evaluate biotech startups for inclusion in our annual Endpoints 11 list, we look for companies that are swinging for the fences with cutting-edge science, where success or failure will make a big dent. Nominations open until July 15: endpoints.news/nominations-...
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Nominations are open for the 2026 Endpoints 11 awards — submit by July 15
Endpoints opens nominations for its 2026 Endpoints 11 awards; submit standout private biotech startups by July 14 ahead of the Sept. 24 gala dinner.
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Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
They've discovered the cop slide. www.threads.com/@stuart.g.p/...
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Stuart G P (@stuart.g.p) on Threads
My pal discovered it....
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🚨The OMB rule will be the end of science as we know it. MARK YOU CALENDAR for the @standupforscience.net EMERGENCY SCIENCE MEETING June 2nd, 4pm et. We will be giving an overview & assigning EVERY SCIENTIST IN AMERICA their marching orders. REGISTER: events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...
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Emergency Science Meeting by Stand Up for Science
[discussing OMB-2026-0034?]
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Ryan Cross @scienceboss.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
It's been a busy week at #ASGCT2026. In my "Dispatch," I wrote about how an vivo CAR-T overload, about two startups working on CRISPR therapies for Alzheimer's, and about a missed opportunity to ask hard questions of the FDA. Read more in @endpts.com: endpoints.news/asgct-dispat...
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ASGCT dispatch: In vivo CAR-T is everywhere
It’s a crucial moment for the cell and gene therapy field. At the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy’s annual meeting, several trends emerged: In vivo CAR-T is everywhere, CRISPR comes for Alzhei...
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 01/05/2026
NEW: The ultraconservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked the 2023 rule change that allowed for telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone—nationwide.
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Published Opinion – #119, Att. #1 in State of Louisiana v. FDA (5th Cir., 26-30203) – CourtListener.com
NON DISPOSITIVE PUBLISHED OPINION FILED. Judge: LHS, Judge: SKD, Judge: KDE; granting Motion to stay the 2023REMS under 5 U.S.C. § 705 pending appeal filed by Appellant State of Louisiana [12]; denyin...
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Endpoints News @endpts.com · 23/04/2026
🏆 Endpoints News won three 2026 Neal Awards, which recognize excellence in B2B journalism, for its coverage of pharma's relationship with the Trump administration, a CRISPR gene editing series and its JPM Healthcare Conference event.
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Endpoints wins Neal Awards for Trump and gene editing coverage, JPM event
Endpoints News was recognized with three 2026 Neal Awards for its coverage of the drug industry's relationship with the Trump administration, a three-part series on the future of CRISPR gene editing, ...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I like this because it articulates the conservative concept of freedom in a nutshell. You have the freedom to do x, except you don't, because I don't want you to. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted. What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards. Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success.

Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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Ryan Cross @scienceboss.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
EveryOne Medicines, a startup making individualized therapies for genetically unique diseases, is shutting down a week after the FDA announced a streamlined pathway for those types of bespoke medicines. @jaredwhitlock.bsky.social and I have the scoop for @endpts.com: endpoints.news/everyone-med...
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Exclusive: EveryOne Medicines shuts down, ending custom cure venture that banked on new FDA pathway
EveryOne Medicines, a biotech developing individualized genetic therapies, to close after FDA's new guidance falls short of expectations for streamlined drug approvals.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 10/02/2026
Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text. Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.
"I'm proud to be here to represent Team USA, and to represent our country. But we'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been for everybody. This stuff is happening right, right around where we live""I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution," Ruohonen continued, "and it allows us to (have) freedom of press, freedom of speech, protects us from unreasonable searches and seizures, and makes it that we have to have probable cause to be pulled over. And what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of grey. It's clear.""I really love what's been happening there now with people coming out, showing the love, the compassion, integrity and respect for others that they don't know, and helping them out," Ruohonen said. "And we love Minnesota for that.

"And I want to make it clear that we are out here, we love our country. We're playing for the U.S. We're playing for Team USA. And we're playing for each other, and we're playing for our family and our friends that sacrificed so much to be here today. And that doesn't change anything.

"Because what the Olympics means is excellence, respect, friendship, and we all, I think, exemplify that. And we are playing for the people of Minnesota and the people around the country who share those same values. That compassion, that love and that respect."
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Dr. Jess Hebert @jesshebert.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Bio folks hiring: my student is on the job hunt, she finishes undergrad in May. Would do very well in a molecular biology or physiology lab, lots of undergrad research experience, inquisitive, mature, great problem solver, reliable. Who needs a very solid tech? Willing to move! #scijobs #MedSky
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CNN @cnn.com · 02/02/2026
On the ground in Minneapolis, residents and local officials say they see no de-escalation — and in some cases, an increased federal presence — as protests continue. cnn.it/4qVfCFn
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Dumb Runner @dumbrunner.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I saw it too:
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
If your outrage over the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort is less passionate than what you felt over the cancellation of Colbert's show or Kimmel's suspension, time to engage in some introspection.
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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 30/01/2026
It would be a travesty if these were spread far and wide
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Manuel F. Navedo @mfnavedo.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Check out our reviews on "Translating cardiovascular ion channel and Ca signalling mechanisms into therapeutic insights". Massive effort from junior investigators, emerging researchers & other leaders in the cardiovascular field. @ucdavis.bsky.social doi.org/10.1113/JP29...
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Translating cardiovascular ion channel and Ca2+ signalling mechanisms into therapeutic insights
Abstract figure legend This white paper integrates mechanistic discoveries across ion channel biology, Ca2+ signalling and multiscale cardiovascular physiology to highlight new opportunities for acce....
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on.
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Michael Pina @michaelvpina.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Reminder: DHS legislation that funds ICE at current levels without policy restrictions is in the Senate and needs 60 votes to pass. Deadline is next Friday.
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Colleen Kelly @onecolleen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The StarTribune live blog is paywall free: - The man shot by federal agents this morning has died - Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building. - ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Uhh... not to be that guy but... I'm pretty sure the Titantic didn't, you know, "turn around."
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
🧪IMPORTANT! This graphic explains how science all over the US is funded. Congress approved a 2% increase in the #NIH budget for FY 26. Buried in the bill- Shift of ~40% of grants to MYF. This will still result in a 35% DECREASE in the NUMBER of grants funded per yr. Russel Vought is behind this.
Graphic helps visualize how MYF funds FEWER grants despite the increase in budget approval by Congress.

https://www.researchamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/ACT-for-NIH-Multi-Year-Funding-One-Pager_October-2025.pdf
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
☎️ CALL ☎️ YOUR ☎️ REPS scripts + numbers here:
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Defund ICE (UPDATED 1/21) - HOUSE VOTE THURSDAY ⭑ 5 Calls
Updates January 21, 2026: The House is expected to vote this week on a standalone appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). …
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Just made a couple donations to help Minnesota communities, esp. the Somali and Indigenous folks. The people united will never be divided.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
People who aren't in Minnesota might not know that if you drive or walk past pretty much any school, there's going to be a group of people, parents and childless, standing guard to make sure the kids are safe from feds. It's pretty remarkable. And very disturbing. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Twin Cities students walk out, decry ICE as surge continues
Hundreds of Twin Cities high school students walked out of school Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota. Officials are increasingly concerned about high absenteeism in some sc...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/01/2026
“Thanks to our latest findings, we now know that early citizens of the United States had a more nuanced system of government than previously thought,” said Professor Lee Somers, director of the site excavation
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Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
WASHINGTON—Calling the discovery the “clearest proof yet” of how the U.S. government was originally designed to function, archaeologists published new evidence Thursday that suggests the Capitol build...
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Ryan Cross @scienceboss.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
So far, Basecamp has tested this in test tubes and T cells. But it's an important update to a deep dive that I recently wrote for Endpoints about Finn's longstanding interest in precision gene insertion tools, which he views as gene editing's holy grail. endpoints.news/as-gene-edit...
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Gene editing's search for a 'holy grail' has led to an explosion of tools, but few cures
Former Intellia scientist John Finn reflects on gene editing's evolution and the closure of Tome Biosciences, highlighting the industry's focus on tools over medicines.
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Ryan Cross @scienceboss.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Former Tome Bio leader John Finn is continuing his search for the ideal gene insertion tool at Basecamp Research. Today, the startup revealed its first AI-generated enzymes (large serine recombinases) that can insert genes without CRISPR. More in @endpts.com: endpoints.news/nvidia-partn...
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Nvidia-partnered startup reveals AI-generated enzymes for precise gene insertion
Scientists at Basecamp Research say they have used “evolutionary AI models,” developed with help from chipmaker NVIDIA, to create a powerful new gene editing tool that can insert a new healthy gene in...
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WBUR @wbur.org · 12/01/2026
At a press conference Friday, Hartford Mayor Arunan Arulampalam said at least one person was struck by the vehicles, which local authorities believe were driven by federal officers.
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Video: Federal officers drive through anti-ICE protest in Hartford, striking one person
At a press conference Friday, Hartford Mayor Arunan Arulampalam said at least one person was struck by the vehicles, which local authorities believe were driven by federal officers. Arulampalam said H...
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Endpoints News @endpts.com · 29/12/2025
🔎 Special report: Gene editing’s toolbox problem. Endpoints Senior Science Correspondent @scienceboss.bsky.social spoke with dozens of biotech leaders and scientists about the promise of new tools — and the growing frustration over how few cures have followed.
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Gene editing's search for a 'holy grail' has led to an explosion of tools, but few cures
Former Intellia scientist John Finn reflects on gene editing's evolution and the closure of Tome Biosciences, highlighting the industry's focus on tools over medicines.
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Osama Harraz @osamaharraz.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
🧵Excited to share our work with the Bracko @bloodflowlab.bsky.social lab published in Alzheimer's & Dementia @alzassociation.bsky.social : Systemic Piezo1 activation improves cerebrovascular function in Alzheimer’s disease 🔗https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz.71016
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Moon-Watcher @bobsmyusername.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Who has made this 🤣
Buster from the tv show ‘Arrested Development’ holding an arm full of plushies while he looks at his mother Lucille, saying, “these are my awards, mother, from FIFA.“
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Harvard Book Store @harvardbookstore.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Join us in raising money for the Greater Boston Food Bank throughout November. We're accepting monetary donations at the registers in store through November 23. Learn more about volunteering, donating food or money, and receiving assistance at their website: www.gbfb.org
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
ICE has been seizing people in Allston. Boston area folks, spread the word about the LUCE hotline to report ICE sightings. And here's stickers you can print and put up anywhere:
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