Masaya Arai
@masayarai.bsky.social
Always look on the bright side of life. Immunology/intestine/Treg
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from my perspective, local and national news has been all over the CDC shooting. i think the problem is more that we as a country are desensitized and have normalized violence against health workers and children, so this low casualty attack is fading fast for folks outside the field
I’m horrified by the scant coverage this story has received www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...
What We Know About the C.D.C. Shooting in Atlanta
www.nytimes.com
August 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
from my perspective, local and national news has been all over the CDC shooting. i think the problem is more that we as a country are desensitized and have normalized violence against health workers and children, so this low casualty attack is fading fast for folks outside the field
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Yes. And more than just "safe and effective": mRNA vaccines are a spectacular breakthrough; they are already providing cures for cancer.
As @astrokatie.com noted, mRNA vaccines won the 2023 Nobel Prize. Other nations are salivating at their chance to take over the lead in this game-changing tech.
As @astrokatie.com noted, mRNA vaccines won the 2023 Nobel Prize. Other nations are salivating at their chance to take over the lead in this game-changing tech.
RFK Jr and his GOP enablers are determined to undermine safe, effective mRNA vaccine technology that offers our best defense against future pandemics.
RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development
The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.
apnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Yes. And more than just "safe and effective": mRNA vaccines are a spectacular breakthrough; they are already providing cures for cancer.
As @astrokatie.com noted, mRNA vaccines won the 2023 Nobel Prize. Other nations are salivating at their chance to take over the lead in this game-changing tech.
As @astrokatie.com noted, mRNA vaccines won the 2023 Nobel Prize. Other nations are salivating at their chance to take over the lead in this game-changing tech.
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Some early-career researchers report feeling pressure to use animal models to meet journal and grant requirements, even in disciplines and projects that don’t require them.
https://go.nature.com/4bVYbOk
https://go.nature.com/4bVYbOk
How ‘animal methods bias’ is affecting research careers
Nature - Some early-career researchers report feeling pressure to use animal models to meet journal and grant requirements, even in disciplines and projects that don’t require them.
go.nature.com
March 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Some early-career researchers report feeling pressure to use animal models to meet journal and grant requirements, even in disciplines and projects that don’t require them.
https://go.nature.com/4bVYbOk
https://go.nature.com/4bVYbOk
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Shohei Ohtani is a marketer’s dream — both a sports icon and national hero in Japan. The Los Angeles Dodgers star has about 20 active sponsorship deals at any time.
Japan Reaches Peak Shohei Ohtani as Dodgers and Cubs Open MLB Season
The Los Angeles Dodgers star is a marketer’s dream — both a sports icon and national hero in Japan. Ohtani has about 20 active sponsorship deals at any time.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Shohei Ohtani is a marketer’s dream — both a sports icon and national hero in Japan. The Los Angeles Dodgers star has about 20 active sponsorship deals at any time.
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Harvard University, one of the nation’s wealthiest schools, on Monday joined the list of universities across the country imposing hiring freezes, citing the uncertainty created by President Trump’s threats to slash funding for higher education.
Harvard Announces a Hiring Freeze as Trump Threatens Funding
The hiring pause at one of the nation’s wealthiest schools comes after other schools have also announced efforts to save money.
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Harvard University, one of the nation’s wealthiest schools, on Monday joined the list of universities across the country imposing hiring freezes, citing the uncertainty created by President Trump’s threats to slash funding for higher education.
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I expect that most academic biomedical researchers have considered leaving the US—if only in theory for now. What a colossal mess! Our representatives need to hear this. Please amplify so they know this matters. @levin.house.gov @repscottpeters.bsky.social @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov
“For the last 75 yrs, the NIH has been the biggest funder of biomedical research in the world. Most advances in medicine were seeded by NIH funding. When we became scientists, we just bought into this system. This is how it works. — @tuthill.bsky.social 🧵
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump cuts threaten a ‘generation of scientists’ as many weigh leaving US
President’s call to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ has led to slashes in NIH funding – endangering jobs and vital research
www.theguardian.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I expect that most academic biomedical researchers have considered leaving the US—if only in theory for now. What a colossal mess! Our representatives need to hear this. Please amplify so they know this matters. @levin.house.gov @repscottpeters.bsky.social @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov
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"As T cells in Secondary Lymphoid Organs are overall more quiescent than those from non-lymphoid tissues, quiescence can be conflated with a less differentiated state in at least some of these studies"
#Immunology #Immunosky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Immunology #Immunosky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Terminal differentiation and persistence of effector regulatory T cells essential for preventing intestinal inflammation - Nature Immunology
The authors show that terminally differentiated colonic Treg cells are required for maintaining colonic health and, although these cells are major producers of this cytokine, IL-10 is dispensable for ...
www.nature.com
February 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
"As T cells in Secondary Lymphoid Organs are overall more quiescent than those from non-lymphoid tissues, quiescence can be conflated with a less differentiated state in at least some of these studies"
#Immunology #Immunosky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Immunology #Immunosky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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This would be disturbing even if there weren’t already an influenza virus that has recently exhibited animal to human transmission. But now it has the potential to be truly catastrophic. Now more than ever, we need to support infectious disease and vaccine research.
Despite his mild-mannered civility, Bhattacharya is a self-interested extremist who gives cover to anti-vaxxers & promotes policies that will kill people. He will set American health, innovation, & science back for a generation.
He’s not here to reform NIH. He’s here to destroy it.
He’s not here to reform NIH. He’s here to destroy it.
Trump makes it official: JAY BHATTACHARYA, a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, is his pick to lead the National Institutes of Health.
A remarkable turn after Bhattacharya became a public health pariah four years ago, dismissed by the then-NIH director for his "fringe" views.
A remarkable turn after Bhattacharya became a public health pariah four years ago, dismissed by the then-NIH director for his "fringe" views.
November 27, 2024 at 3:31 AM
This would be disturbing even if there weren’t already an influenza virus that has recently exhibited animal to human transmission. But now it has the potential to be truly catastrophic. Now more than ever, we need to support infectious disease and vaccine research.