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EXCLUSIVE: New York’s congestion pricing plan raised $48.6M in tolls during its first month, a strong start that exceeded expectations. The revenue figures, expected to be released publicly on Monday by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, are the latest sign that the tolling plan is working.

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"Our streets are now more safe. There has been a 51% decrease in injuries and a 55% decrease in crashes in the congestion relief zone compared to the same period in January 2024."

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The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

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Entirely preventable.

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The Trump administration blocked key parts of the federal government’s apparatus for funding biomedical research, effectively halting progress on much of the country’s future work on illnesses like cancer and addiction despite a federal judge’s order to release grant money.

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NEW: Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s... Trump stalls scientific research despite court ruling

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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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The group, including mayors from Boston, San Francisco, Baltimore, St. Louis and Cleveland, says Trump's NIH cuts would "undermine scientific progress in American cities."

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Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded & what’s next Once upon a time leaders believed that science was essential to nation’s security, to better health, to more jobs, to a higher standard of living & to cultural progress 🧪 #academicSky @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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The capabilities of the large language of life models (LLLMs) are rapidly proliferating! nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com arcinstitute.org/manuscripts/... @arcinstitute.org science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org

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A team of researchers that includes leaders from the Arc Institute and Nvidia just announced Evo 2, calling it the largest publicly available AI biology model to date.

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How is any of this helping our neighbors?

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Yum!

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Food safety chief at the FDA quits saying Trump's mass layoffs make his job "fruitless" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Good story on all the carnage with quotes from @aaas.org CEO Sudip Parikh. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Rod Serling was more accurate than Nostradamis. The Obsolete Man is now our reality. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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Of course they were.

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Scientists at the Wyss Institute have created ReConstruct, an approach to creating living tissue implants from a patient’s own cells for reconstruction surgery following a mastectomy. Learn more:

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“While the administration’s broad-based and rapid-fire approach might cut some costs in the short term, these costs are a small percentage of overall US spending, and the measures risk causing significant strategic disadvantages for the US in the long term.”

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Want a glimpse of the future? www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

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By now, you've probably heard a lot about the potential changes to NIH funding structures and indirect costs, but what are they? In this article, Wyss Director of Research Administration Keleigh Quinn shares insights into indirect costs and experiences from her career. #NIH #ResearchFunding

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"We need buildings; we need labs; we need computer resources; we need the networks to enable scholarship across so many fields & disciplines. Without the resources provided through reimbursement of indirect costs, the work essentially can’t proceed." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

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In this piece, Wyss Founding Director Donald Ingber shares his thoughts about the potentially devastating impact of NIH funding cuts to indirect research costs on the development of breakthrough advances for life-threatening diseases. He also discusses the potentially negative economic impact.

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Taking care of our veterans is the least a nation can do for those that have served us. This is wrong.

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Senate Republicans have confirmed Trump’s least qualified Cabinet nominees—and given up their role as an independent check on the president. This will encourage Trump, @dgraham.bsky.social writes. And in bowing to him, senators may be defying voters’ preferences.

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California’s right-to-know law, which requires companies to warn people about harmful chemicals in their products, has swayed many companies to stop using those chemicals altogether, a new study found.

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We are alarmed by proposed funding cuts that would devastate the fight against ALS. Slashing funding for NIH will hinder efforts to turn ALS from fatal to livable and cure it. Congress MUST reject these cuts! We need your voice NOW more than ever. bit.ly/NIH-funding-...

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Can't resist posting a (free!) link to my column, where they pulled this quote from:

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"The potential negative impact of this change on the development of breakthrough advances for life-threatening diseases is obvious and distressing to all of us who live in this world of science and medicine.” -Donald Ingber, @wyssinstitute.bsky.social endpts.com/judge-halts-...

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Nearly every medicine we benefit from started with NIH-funded research. Early discovery work starts in academia. Immunotherapies? Gene therapy for rare diseases? Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s medicines? Vaccines? Novel cancer treatments? Psychiatric medicines? You betcha. 1/

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A multidisciplinary team led by Stanford University and including the Wyss as a sub-awardee, has been awarded funding from the @arpa-h.bsky.social Transplantation of Human Eye Allografts program to advance the science and technology necessary for whole eye transplantation.

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“A torrent of disruptive Trump administration policies is alarming scientists who fear the current political climate is weakening researchers’ resolve...it could undermine the country’s enduring position as the world leader in biomedicine” www.statnews.com/2025/02/12/t...

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Pharma, biotech, and life science leaders are scared of retribution from the current administration. This lack of leadership will not only hurt American innovation, but will ultimately hurt patients in need.

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The 80-year-old partnership between the federal government and research institutions has made the United States the leader in scientific innovation. But a proposed funding cut threatens the arrangement.

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Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

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🧪 A $4B cut to to NIH funding will have a seismic impact on science & medicine in the US. What's at stake? Our competitive edge in biomedical innovation, access to high quality health care (including for kids w/cancer), local economies...It's a big deal. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):

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“Over decades, Massachusetts researchers with NIH funding have made discoveries that provided new treatments for cancer, diabetes, and other diseases.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/09/m...

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“Donald Trump's actions domestically and globally are not a measured reappraisal of US priorities. They are a sweeping and damaging attack on the health of the American people and those dependent on US foreign assistance.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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What are indirect research costs? A quick explainer in light of NIH’s sweeping policy change. Teamed up with my @statnews.com colleague Angus Chen for this piece www.statnews.com/2025/02/08/n...

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Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila Monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.

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The prospect of eliminating the organ waiting list is only possible because of government funding of biomedical research. Cutting grants, cutting indirect costs, scientific misinformation will only hurt Americans.

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