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Assoc Prof @michiganstateu, virologist🦠, cancer biologist (book under way), public health advocate. Views my own (he/him/his). https://www.bachmannlab.net
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35 years ago today, one of the most ICONIC and profound images was taken. the pale blue dot.

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately. The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Still more deadly than flu or RSV jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 27 days ago • 21 comments

this planet is the only one we’ve got, so let’s treat it that way

submitted 42 days ago • 10 comments

The yellow structure you are looking at is the Laniakea Supercluster, which exists as a vast cosmic region that accommodates nearly 100,000 galaxies. The red dot in the photo represents our home galaxy, the Milky Way, which houses around 300 billion stars, including our very own Sun.

submitted 56 days ago • 6 comments

on this day in 1996, we lost carl sagan, the man who inspired countless people to look up and appreciate the cosmos more 🌌

submitted 65 days ago • 30 comments

Everyone in this picture would be able to walk if the polio vaccine had existed in time for them.

submitted 70 days ago • 367 comments

⚠️ BREAKING: WHO Chief Dr. Tedros Warns the Threat of Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Pandemics Remains as New Disease Outbreak in DRC Kills 31, COVID-19 Still a Danger WHO Chief: "If the Next Pandemic Strikes, the World Would Still Face Weaknesses That Allowed COVID-19 to Spread."

submitted 74 days ago • 6 comments

Healthcare workers have put their lives on the line for all of us since the start of the Covid pandemic in 2020. They deserve the best protection as SARS-CoV-2 continues to evolve and circulate, and, if nevertheless infected and chronically ill, if not disabled, the best care and recompensation.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

📺Incredible footage from a new study out, showing the vast extent of viral persistence after COVID. 🦠~60% of people who had had COVID had spike accumulation 🦠The team theorises spike in the skull might be a co-factor in the development of #longcovid Paper 👇 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

submitted 86 days ago • 6 comments