New document emphasizes support for White House priorities over curiosity-driven ideas

There is still limited data reported on virus diversity in South American bats. In this study, the authors report a divergent betacoronavirus with a functional furin cleavage site in South American ba...

An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.

reviewing institutional discipline from George Floyd in 2020 to Palestine in 2023

We studied 17 patients with severe systemic necrotizing vasculitis over an 11-year-period. Sixteen patients were treated daily with cyclophosphamide (2 mg per kilogram per day), and one was treated...

Prediction markets have permeated the worlds of sports, politics, and reality television shows. Now, the biopharma industry could be next.

“This erosion of our strength is a loss for the nation,” writes MIT President Sally Kornbluth.

RE: "Performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician." Science 2026

RE: "Performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician." Science 2026

Akeke and Zhang defend against the DOJ's investigation into Stanford Medicine and advocate for the importance of diversity consideration in admissions.

“The volume of evidence behind a therapy has become inversely correlated with public trust in it,” writes Vikas Patel.

In light of the scotus ruling, re-sharing my post on the myth of meritocracy and the conservative crusade against AA https://open.substack.com/pub/primafacie/p/best-and-brightest?r=1wbx1d&utm_medium=...

Vaccination rates among young children in Michigan dropped sharply during the first year of the Trump administration, a Reuters analysis of state data shows, providing an early indication of how vacci...

Leading Republicans don’t seem to care about the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran.

At least 10 vessels have changed transponder messages in apparent attempt to avoid becoming targets

Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

Traditional vaccines target specific pathogens, limiting their scope against diverse respiratory threats. We describe an intranasal liposomal formulation combining toll-like receptor (TLR) 4 and 7/8 l...