Dan Kaufman
@kaufm020.bsky.social
Professor @UCSD working on stem cells, NK cells, cell therapy and hematology. Golf and baseball also important.
kaufmanlab.ucsd.edu
kaufmanlab.ucsd.edu
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Ouch!
"Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children, but under the inexpert guidance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., other states may follow"
@petridishes.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
"Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children, but under the inexpert guidance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., other states may follow"
@petridishes.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
September 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Ouch!
"Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children, but under the inexpert guidance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., other states may follow"
@petridishes.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
"Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children, but under the inexpert guidance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., other states may follow"
@petridishes.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Amazing analysis and terrible implications for research in the US. Very impactful research is being eliminated. Worth a look.
The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
www.nytimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Amazing analysis and terrible implications for research in the US. Very impactful research is being eliminated. Worth a look.
The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Nice to see a rationale approach summarized here. Seems like good strategies.
5 Science-Backed Longevity ‘Hacks’ That Don’t Cost a Fortune www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/w...
5 Science-Backed Longevity ‘Hacks’ That Don’t Cost a Fortune www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/w...
5 Science-Backed Longevity Hacks That Don’t Cost a Fortune
You don’t need a $40,000 gym membership to live a longer, healthier life.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Nice to see a rationale approach summarized here. Seems like good strategies.
5 Science-Backed Longevity ‘Hacks’ That Don’t Cost a Fortune www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/w...
5 Science-Backed Longevity ‘Hacks’ That Don’t Cost a Fortune www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/w...
Gotta say, for anyone who has cared for patients with Mucor, this looks like pretty good news:
A humanized antibody against mucormycosis targets angioinvasion and augments the host immune response | Science Translational Medicine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A humanized antibody against mucormycosis targets angioinvasion and augments the host immune response | Science Translational Medicine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A humanized antibody against mucormycosis targets angioinvasion and augments the host immune response
An anti-CotH humanized IgG1 antibody protects against lethal mucormycosis when given as adjunctive therapy to immunocompromised mice.
www.science.org
March 13, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Gotta say, for anyone who has cared for patients with Mucor, this looks like pretty good news:
A humanized antibody against mucormycosis targets angioinvasion and augments the host immune response | Science Translational Medicine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A humanized antibody against mucormycosis targets angioinvasion and augments the host immune response | Science Translational Medicine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Nice to see our guide on production of iPSC-NK cells out. This method has worked for many groups.
Detailed step-by-step protocol from cell engineering to differentiation enables the generation of NK cell-optimized iPSC-derived CAR-expressing NK cells
dx.doi.org/10.3791/67438
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dx.doi.org/10.3791/67438
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March 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Nice to see our guide on production of iPSC-NK cells out. This method has worked for many groups.
Does anyone know if the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) is kaput? They fund lots of cancer research. Now all CDMRP-related websites seem to be gone, as below. Any ideas?
Musk and friends likely ended these to fund their tax cuts, but let me know if any other ideas here.
Musk and friends likely ended these to fund their tax cuts, but let me know if any other ideas here.
February 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Does anyone know if the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) is kaput? They fund lots of cancer research. Now all CDMRP-related websites seem to be gone, as below. Any ideas?
Musk and friends likely ended these to fund their tax cuts, but let me know if any other ideas here.
Musk and friends likely ended these to fund their tax cuts, but let me know if any other ideas here.
Very appropriate for the FAA and politicians "investigating" the crash.
Such a classic. We are so fucked lol
Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off
YouTube video by ClarkeAndDawe
youtu.be
January 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Very appropriate for the FAA and politicians "investigating" the crash.
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If RFK Jr. is confirmed. @donttreadonkids.bsky.social
January 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
If RFK Jr. is confirmed. @donttreadonkids.bsky.social
It's great to see this data that shows >80% reduction in childhood cancer deaths. Amazing progress, more to do.
Childhood cancer deaths in the United States have declined six-fold over the last seventy years
January 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
It's great to see this data that shows >80% reduction in childhood cancer deaths. Amazing progress, more to do.
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this footage is incredibly haunting.
it’s only been a week since 2025 started.
it’s only been a week since 2025 started.
January 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
this footage is incredibly haunting.
it’s only been a week since 2025 started.
it’s only been a week since 2025 started.
Great end of the year story.
After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers.
Science works, y'all.
www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
Science works, y'all.
www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
Closure of northern Minnesota camp is ‘the greatest story.’ Here’s why.
Willow River, Minn., camp One Heartland is for sale after serving kids there for nearly three decades.
www.startribune.com
December 31, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Great end of the year story.
Great story. As a hematologist, it's exciting and incredible to see someone do well enough after an allogeneic BMT for AML to resume being an airline pilot. The field has come a long way. Congrats to both of them.
Eight years ago, a budding scientist gave a commercial airline pilot a gift that would link the two for life.
Since then, they'd met in person and linked up on social media. But when she boarded a flight a week ago, she didn't expect to see him.
Then an announcement came over the PA system.
Since then, they'd met in person and linked up on social media. But when she boarded a flight a week ago, she didn't expect to see him.
Then an announcement came over the PA system.
A pilot raced through the airport to surprise an old friend: the woman who saved his life | CNN
When Allie Reimold boarded Flight 2223 in Houston a week ago, she didn’t expect to see the pilot whose life she had saved.
cnn.it
December 23, 2024 at 1:14 AM
Great story. As a hematologist, it's exciting and incredible to see someone do well enough after an allogeneic BMT for AML to resume being an airline pilot. The field has come a long way. Congrats to both of them.
I fall in the camp that sees this as really interesting research. Banning research areas seems counterproductive. I need to know more, but it seems if there will be work in this area, there can also be work on how to counteract any problems. Worth learning more.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/s...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/s...
A ‘Second Tree of Life’ Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn (Gift Article)
Research on so-called mirror cells, which defy fundamental properties of living organisms, should be prohibited as too dangerous, biologists said.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 1:37 AM
I fall in the camp that sees this as really interesting research. Banning research areas seems counterproductive. I need to know more, but it seems if there will be work in this area, there can also be work on how to counteract any problems. Worth learning more.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/s...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/s...
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December 1, 2024 at 3:49 AM
Good group to be included in here.
Added you to volume 2. Please share. go.bsky.app/UP8aWPd
November 23, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Good group to be included in here.
If you see this, post a concert pic you took.
Jimmy Buffett's last full concert. San Diego, CA. May, 2023
Jimmy Buffett's last full concert. San Diego, CA. May, 2023
November 22, 2024 at 12:12 AM
If you see this, post a concert pic you took.
Jimmy Buffett's last full concert. San Diego, CA. May, 2023
Jimmy Buffett's last full concert. San Diego, CA. May, 2023
This is excellent advice.
(also, we need bookmarks here for posts like these)
(also, we need bookmarks here for posts like these)
And, per a request, here's my Rules for Twitter, which I would think apply here, with the addition: Block anybody you like.
Bye, now.
Bye, now.
November 20, 2024 at 7:33 PM
This is excellent advice.
(also, we need bookmarks here for posts like these)
(also, we need bookmarks here for posts like these)
Really nice work, especially for those interested in NK cells and NK Cell engagers.
November 18, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Really nice work, especially for those interested in NK cells and NK Cell engagers.
In the voice of Jeff Foxworthy...
If you see election posts about California Congressional District 45 with the title of CD45 and you think this is about blood cells...
Then YOU might be a HEMATOLOGIST
#CD45
If you see election posts about California Congressional District 45 with the title of CD45 and you think this is about blood cells...
Then YOU might be a HEMATOLOGIST
#CD45
November 18, 2024 at 6:52 PM
In the voice of Jeff Foxworthy...
If you see election posts about California Congressional District 45 with the title of CD45 and you think this is about blood cells...
Then YOU might be a HEMATOLOGIST
#CD45
If you see election posts about California Congressional District 45 with the title of CD45 and you think this is about blood cells...
Then YOU might be a HEMATOLOGIST
#CD45
Don’t know about the other lab folks out there, but this fight makes me ready to pick up the pipets again. Got to show the young kids I can still tame those iPSCs.
November 16, 2024 at 5:20 AM
Don’t know about the other lab folks out there, but this fight makes me ready to pick up the pipets again. Got to show the young kids I can still tame those iPSCs.