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Sabrina Leddy

@smleddy.bsky.social

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PhD candidate in the Feschotte lab @ Cornell Genetics, virology, organizing the masses♥️

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Who funds biomedical research? @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying vaccine hesitancy. Projects studying mRNA vaccines may be next. Important story by my colleague Sara Reardon in @science.org 🧪 #IDsky

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NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines

Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Daniel Colón-Ramos @dacolon.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

“The bottom line is, I can’t live, I can’t think in this chaos,” McDonnell said. McDonnell lab developed a drug in 2023 approved by the FDA to treat metastatic breast cancer. That is what is at stake.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/03/2025

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.

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Cedric Feschotte @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Feels awkward but necessary to celebrate scientific progress in this imperiled time for US biomedical research. Proud of our latest paper out today exploring the role of transposable elements in antiviral resistance to HIV 🦠 genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 🧵1/n

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Transposable elements may enhance antiviral resistance in HIV-1 elite controllers - Genome Biology

Background Less than 0.5% of people living with HIV-1 are elite controllers (ECs)—individuals who maintain undetectable plasma viremia without antiretroviral therapy, despite having replication-compet...

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