Staff writer at Science, specializing in infectious diseases and immunology. Vaccine history geek. Hate outbreaks, love covering them. Serious surf addiction, occasional contributor to the incomparable Surfer's Journal.
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John Powers III will replace Jeffrey Taubenberger as NIAID's acting director. Powers, an infectious disease specialist who focuses on antimicrobials, worked as a contractor for NIAID and was employed by Leidos Biomedical, which runs NCI at Frederick. Taubenberger will return to his lab.
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Defendants face up to 5 years prison for alleged “smuggling” and “conspiracy”
Recent news of a Hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship has some worrying that it could become the next pandemic. Journalist @cohenjon.bsky.social breaks down which viral offenders may spark the next worldwide contagion, and how ready we are to address it. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/pre...
An Ecuadorian biologist is accused of scientific misconduct, inflating species counts, mishandling animals, entering reserves without permission and potentially complicating the development of lifesaving snake antivenoms. For more than a year, I investigated him for @science.org:
GSK’s “bepi” performs better than expected in efficacy trials, but its global impact is likely limited
