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Over 15,000 doctors have signed a letter imploring the US Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation for Secretary of HHS.

The letter states:

“RFK Jr. is not only unqualified to lead this essential agency — he is actively dangerous.”

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www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
15,000 doctors sign letter begging Senate to reject RFK Jr for health secretary
Kennedy, among other controversies, has spread misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine
www.independent.co.uk
January 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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“For my next attention seeking trick, I will have you concentrate on Greenland, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Panama Canal—instead of my absurdly unqualified cabinet picks or that I have no real plans to fix the border or bring down food prices. Look, America, a rabbit!”
January 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
January 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti..., Another unexpected result coming from Peter Dougherty's 2nd paper of his PhD. About phages targeting key wheat phyllosphere bacterial members. With surprising (interupted, modifyed and large) genetics... Out today, Check it out :)
Novel bacteriophages targeting wheat phyllosphere bacteria carry DNA modifications and single-strand breaks
The phyllosphere microbiome can positively or negatively impact plant health and growth, but we currently lack the tools to control microbiome composi…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Check out our new Preprint phages with a peculiar lifestyle
Are there virulent phages hiding in your bacterial culture? Here we find hundreds of virulent phage genomes in bacterial genome assemblies. Bioinformatic and experimental evidence indicate these are not contaminations, but represent persistent infections.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Persistent virulent phages exist in bacterial isolates
Despite the immense diversity of tailed bacteriophages, they are traditionally classified as either virulent or temperate, with only the latter thought capable of long-term persistence in bacterial ce...
www.biorxiv.org
January 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM