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CDC has set aside new $1.6M for controversial hepatitis B vax clinical trial in Guinea-Bissau, halted earlier amid uproar over medical ethics. CDC director's office resurrected it, taking $$ from global health security funds: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This 2014 piece by @edyong209.bsky.social is still very relevant 12 years later when trying to make sense of these comparisons of microbiomes. It's complicated! www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/o...

People who hunt game and gather wild plants in both Tanzania and Bolivia share hundreds of species of bacteria in their guts that are rare or missing from industrialized societies. Here's my story about what this may mean for the history of the microbiome. Gift link: nyti.ms/3WdCvZZ

For information on the book, here's a page on my site carlzimmer.com/books/she-ha...

My book on heredity, "She Has Her Mother's Laugh," is on sale at Kindle for $1.99 through October 11. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

"Responses poured in from biochemists, quantum physicists, archaeologists, oceanographers, Nobel Prize-winning biologists, geoscientists, entomologists, you name it."

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/s...

None of us do. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I'm delighted to kick off a new project from the @nytimes.com science desk called Unknowns. My contribution is an essay on the consciousness of babies. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jDfXLU

Vaccines.gov website is still non-functional as of today.

#healthpolicy #IDSky #MedSky #vaccination #publichealth

“The Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to an email asking when the website is expected to work again.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/adult-non-fl...

Fascinating new review of what it takes for viruses to go airborne. Open access: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

UPDATE: After our investigation into that company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, it has halted publication -- at least for now

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Yes, but in reverse. Placentas use proteins (syncytins) that orginated in viruses that inserted genes into mammal genomes. Now we have them in our DNA. Now I'm reporting about how a human gene ended up in a virus (that apparently uses it against us) doi.org/10.1007/s110...

Bundibugyo outbreak tops 8,000 confirmed cases as disease remains out of control apnews.com/article/cong...

“It’s not just about attacking warehouses so that we won’t have food. They also want to intimidate us — to make it so that we can’t work, study, do scientific research or really do anything at all.” nyti.ms/4dKfh3F