Matthew Herper
@matthewherper
Writing and events at STAT. This is biology's century; Every data point has a face. ‘21 Polk Award. Signal: MattHerper.92
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I just want to emphasize: This is not normal. This is unprecedented. And it is chaos. This morning my colleagues -- who are working quite hard -- reported that the White House had decimated CDC offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic…
So chaos. “The picture was clouded further Saturday evening by reports that some at the CDC received letters rescinding the RIFs, sources told STAT. statnews.com/2025/10/11/cdc…
One high-ranking CDC official who just lost their job disputed characterizing the cuts as the natural consequence of a shutdown, instead calling it the weaponization of one. “The executive branch is using the shutdown as cover for an intentional and targeted dismantling of…
Almost the entire staff behind the CDC’s flagship publication, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, have been fired. The report is typically one of the first places where information about U.S. disease outbreaks is disseminated before appearing in other journals. It also runs…
CDC battered by government shutdown firings statnews.com/2025/10/11/cdc…
Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Dozens of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
From one of America's most important company builders: "Opening doors; protecting free speech; rewarding merit: these are MIT’s values, and I consider them to be the bedrock tenets of the United States, my adopted home."
I came to MIT to study in 1983 to pursue a PhD in the then-emerging field of Biochemical Engineering. Having arrived in North America a political refugee from war-torn Lebanon eight years earlier, the academic rigor of MIT courses and professors challenged me at a whole new…
I came to MIT to study in 1983 to pursue a PhD in the then-emerging field of Biochemical Engineering. Having arrived in North America a political refugee from war-torn Lebanon eight years earlier, the academic rigor of MIT courses and professors challenged me at a whole new…
HHS employees to be fired as White House enacts mass terminations again statnews.com/2025/10/10/hhs…
Call it Pascal's wager: AstraZeneca set to strike drug pricing deal with Trump statnews.com/2025/10/10/ast… via @statnews
CRISPR Therapeutics $CRSP debuts what appears to be its prime-editing copycat at ESGCT Now joins $BEAM, $PRME, $REGN, and Tessera in chasing a gene-editing treatment for AATD, a rare liver disorder ir.crisprtx.com/news-releases/…
Congrats to Kristina Burow, the Beam team, and our co-investors. :)
1/🚨WOW! Huge acquisition in the Cell Therapy space with the acquisition of Orbital Therapeutics by $BMY for $1.5B!! The acquisition includes Orbital’s leading RNA immunotherapy preclinical candidate - OTX-201, which comprises an optimized circular RNA encoding a CD19-targeted…
Bristol Myers to buy cell therapy startup Orbital for $1.5B statnews.com/2025/10/10/bri…
Senate passes BIOSECURE Act| STAT statnews.com/2025/10/10/sen…
.@uclaanderson presents the 2025 Loeb Award for the Explanatory category to: “The War on Recovery” From: STAT #loebawards
Our work on sperm sequencing is now published! See below for: 🧑🔬Scientific tweetorial 📰 Accessible articles discussing implications for aging fathers [1/3] nature.com/articles/s4158…
Plenty of amyloid, very little tau Low inflammatory response front page @nytimes, by @PamBelluck nytimes.com/2025/10/07/hea…
The most devastating facial trauma case I ever saw was a high speed collision with a moose. Driver barely survived. The moose was fine. Full grown moose are so tall the legs get knocked out and the body falls right through the windshield at full force. The moose in this video is…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio whispers in the ear of President Donald Trump after handing him a note about a Middle East deal saying “Very close. We need you to approve a Truth Social post soon so you can announce deal first”
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