Day FOUR of #ESTRO26 Coverage by OncoAlert 🚨
UK National Breast Radiotherapy Audit: Real-World Heart and Lung Doses from 30,000 NHS Treatment Plans Presented by Imogen Locke 🇬🇧
#RadOnc ☢️ #BreastCancer
@estroradiotherapy.bsky.social
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Researchers say they have used a precise genome-editing technique called base editing to alter the genome of human embryos for the first time, an announcement that prompted both excitement and dismay.
go.nature.com/3RUBKD6
The lead scientist on the use of ‘base editing’ in very early embryos say that the technique is far from ready for the clinic, but critics worry that the work will spur a rush to commercialization.
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The proposed OMB rule negates peer review for approval of grant applications. The political appointee will have the power to randomly override peer review.
The last thing we need is the fear of grants getting terminated based on whim.
Russ Vought is all over this.🧪
An important read.
When you starve federal funding, next gen treatments are out of reach. Philanthropy won't replace an entire 80 yr old infrastructure.
Only certain discoveries get press coverage. But the work leading up to them was quietly decades in the making.
🧪 www.ms.now/opinion/canc...
Fascinating from a physics (and physics teaching) point of view. And terrifying when you consider the surveillance possibilities. #ChatPhysics
Urgent! 🧪🧠
Nature
Welp, this is a goddamn nightmare.
Jenney Bitner: I'm not a scientist or policy expert. But I know that the drug that kept me alive for my children was built on a foundation of public investment.
I know many here will hate me for it, but BlueSky is so somnolent that I had to go back on evil Twitter to show my support for @iwashyna.bsky.social Nobel Prize for the People of Minneapolis!!
#Truth2Power
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Nasa says Russian crew trying to fix worsening air leak in its portion of orbital laboratory
Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...
Keith Trujillo
Landline phones and CAT5 cabling are looking more and more appealing.
🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD
Emma Mason, Kerry Noble & Mary Rice
It was a pleasure to partner with @amandauhle.bsky.social le to nominate the people of Minneapolis for a Nobel Peace Prize, as we announced in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice
elizabethginexi.substack.com
Scientists in Germany have demonstrated a startling new form of surveillance: identifying people using nothing more than ordinary WiFi signals. By analyzing how radio waves bounce around a room, resea...
