NEW: In @ScienceMagazine today, our latest peer-reviewed research shows Exxon scientists predicted global warming with shocking skill & accuracy between 1977 & 2003, contradicting the company's decades of climate denial. THREAD.
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Join us this Thursday as @JaredAEckman presents a case to student discussant @ Cecilia Castellano and your and our favorite clinical reasoner @VarunPhadke2 with teaching from @ Morgan Schafer to follow !!! 🧠🤓
Had the brilliant idea to start reading impactful/inspirational texts on the same day each year (e.g. a particular essay every first day of spring) until I realized this cyclical practice is the exact backbone of many religions
Dr. Paul Farmer — a public health icon who spent decades building community networks to deliver high quality healthcare to millions of poor people in Haiti and across Africa — died unexpectedly yesterday. He spent his life and career fighting to make healthcare a human right.
The "History of HIV" talk I gave last week actually has this title, which I don't think is an overstatement. Posting it now with gratitude, just in time for Thanksgiving (my favorite holiday -- the gratitude and family part).
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“If this is right, cervical cancers could be reduced to about 50 – just 50 cancers in the whole of the U.K. for women under 30. It’s really quite exciting to see that day come – excitement and just joy.” buff.ly/3HjyOWW
Shell's CEO said that meeting energy demand while addressing climate change is "one of the defining challenges of our time." But @Shell won't put its money where its mouth is. I made this hypocrisy plain with a simple visual.
HIV-specific CAR T cells return to the clinic: buff.ly/3lmTX9y
Christopher W. Peterson @fredhutch places HIV-specific CAR T cell therapy in a historical context and discusses the importance of combinatorial strategies to reach curative endpoints for HIV. #Commentary
Here’s one of the early malaria vaccine papers that started it all: Ruth/Victor Nussenzweig and team @nyulangone identified the circumsporozoite malaria protein cloned it in 1980s. I was @RockefellerUniv aspiring to make similar breakthroughs for hookworm
rupress.org/jem/article/156/…
Breaking News: The WHO approved the first ever malaria vaccine, which could save tens of thousands of children in sub-Saharan Africa. The quest for this vaccine has been underway for a hundred years, a WHO official said, and is a "historic event." nyti.ms/3oxUgAy
Community note
Minor correction but the WHO didn’t “approve” the vaccine — they “recommend” it. The WHO doesn’t have authority to approve vaccines.
who.int/news/item/06-1…
Phase 3 results of this vaccine were first published and the vaccine was approved by EMA in 2015.
Merck & Ridgeback have announced their plan to seek Emergency Use Authorization for molnupiravir, an antiviral drug initially discovered at Emory and developed by Drug Innovation Ventures at Emory (DRIVE). links.emory.edu/bT