The stock price for $SNOA (Sonoma Pharmaceuticals) shot up 10% after the Nobel Prize announcement this morning - but it's the wrong company. Fred Ramsdell works for Sonoma Biotherapeutics, which is not publicly listed!
BREAKING NEWS
The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
@PRobertImmodels I assume the authors have looked into model viruses to play with. One group did attempt this experimentally with lab-strain flu A. The flu mutational space is constrained (1 mAb vs. 1 residue on flu HA) and they continued selecting for dozens of rounds
https://t.co/6nYgkep0BR
@strnr Initially I tested workflow orchestrators SnakeMake and Nextflow. Ended up writing a custom and specific 'orchestrator' in Go to keep the SIF size smaller.
@strnr I tested this idea putting tools into a Singularity container (Docker image 'converted' to SIF). It worked. This was to solve the pain of working with outdated packages on NIAID HPC.
https://t.co/qgnWu2p4U9
"no one has died" because of feeding USAID to the woodchipper, Elon claimed. In this devastating piece the NYT went out and learned some of their names and stories:
Doctoral programs are pausing or cutting back admissions. This is just the latest signal that the future of the university is under threat, @ibogost writes: https://t.co/60XYbtBZKb
I have worked with many untenured staff scientists & PIs at NIH. They are incredible colleagues who chose science in public service over more lucrative careers. Devaluing their commitment & professionalism is among the most cruel aspects of the DOGE purge
https://t.co/ODnuM5vooY
A study in @NatureMicrobiol demonstrates that phenotypic flexibility allows influenza A virus to rapidly respond to environmental pressures in a way that provides dynamic adaptation potential in changing surroundings. https://t.co/GSUCVkGVNb
i used to be a cancer researcher at one of the most well-funded institutes in america. our lavish spending was like sometimes we'd have an ice cream social.
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Trump’s latest foreign aid policy is directly impacting a Malaysian wildlife NGO. Staff will not be getting salaries for three months at least as they are ordered NOT TO INCUR ANY EXPENSES.
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