"In my experience, people are doing the very best they can with the information and resources they have. The prevention they need is against belittling obesity by calling it a disease of choice." thehastingscenter.org/what-is-preven…

It's a great day to be out #ridingforareason. Help me to fund a cure for Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and support my ride! give.alpha1.org/goto/andrewwil… Alpha-1 Foundation BU Pulmonary CReM Francesca Polverino

"Dr. Clements theorized that there must be some chemical that relaxes the surface tension of the air sacs. He went on to identify the substance as a surfactant, a class of lubricants that work like household detergents." nytimes.com/2024/09/19/sci…

A good advise i got from my postdoctoral mentor (Rudolf jaenisch) while helping him review a paper ~17 years ago- "Write it (the report) as if you were (openly) signing it". -- ‘Substandard and unworthy’: why it’s time to banish bad-mannered reviews nature.com/articles/d4158…

Immigrants from Haiti deserve solidarity not neutrality - My op-ed in Yale Daily News about smears and threats against the Haitian immigrant community, the silence of academic institutions and the false allure of institutional neutrality is finally out! yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/09/2…

"The US public can expect less protection against all manner of health, safety, and environmental threats. The era in which the courts rely on science to safeguard the public is rapidly closing." jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

It begins! Day 1 of the 2024 AEBT! We are #Alpha1ridingforareason! Alpha-1 Foundation Lung Association: NE CReM

A federal appeals court hands the FDA a stupendous win in its battle against stem cell clinics "The three-member panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found that the FDA’s definition of processed stem cells as a “drug” was correct. The judges also accepted the FDA’s

In honor and memory of Kris Kristofferson, whose substantial art went unrecognized because he didn't fuss. He put one of the greatest movies of modern Hollywood on his shoulders and carried it, for nearly four hours, with enormous yet graceful power, and got only insults for it.

"This ruling is an important step toward protecting Americans from unproven cell therapies that have not been shown to be safe or effective in controlled clinical trials...," said #ISSCR Public Policy Committee Chair Sean Morrison. #stemcells Sean Morrison ow.ly/bxuu50TzuTy

"In an important step to protect the public from unproven stem cell products, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in favor of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in U.S. v. California Stem Cell Treatment Center, Inc., reversing the district court."

Regulators in Australia & Canada have had success in curtailing DTC marketing of unapproved & unproven stem cell interventions. Rasko Lab Laertis Ikonomou Stem Cells Australia, Carl Power, Doug Sipp, & I have a new Forum piece in Cell Stem Cell. cell.com/cell-stem-cell… ISSCR ISCT

Remembering the great Pharoah Sanders who was born on this day in 1940. Known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of “sheets of sound,” Sanders was a member of John Coltrane’s groups of the mid-1960s and released over 30

"The writer Angela Saini, author of a book on the return of race science, has described how it traces its roots to arguments originally used to defend colonialism and later Nazi eugenics, and today can often be deployed to “shore up” political views." theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…

Most of us see through this fake inclusion virtue signaling nature - if you cared about inclusion you’d share profits with authors, paid reviewers for their work, and stopped charging $13,000 for open access. #Pay4PeerReview #RealOpenAcess

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Congrats to co-first authors Julian Undeutsch and Alberto Posabella and to all our collaborators CReM Laertis Ikonomou Boston Medical Center Boston University Boston U Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine #helpisontheway #itsthecells!

“I suspect that the leadership at FDA is going to be very vulnerable at all levels,” said Kracov. “I think it's going to also be difficult to recruit and retain people if the FDA is under attack.” raps.org/news-and-artic…

"I can think of at least three strong arguments for why higher education should be that industry, significantly restructuring its work culture to provide professors more uninterrupted time for thinking and teaching, and require less time on email and administrative duties."