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Bessent:Cancer researchers fired from NIH will form labor pool for new steelmill

"we are shedding excess labor in the federal government...
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  04/07/25
Scientists "demonstrated a promising step toward using ...
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This is correctly reasonable. Think of it as a form of reha...
Gay Grandpa
  04/07/25
jesus christ lol u just luv jew cock dont u
theranchman
  04/07/25
there is no singular group, not even fedgov employees, more ...
Oh, you trade?
  04/07/25
Bessent is a true dumbass on this stuff. No advanced economi...
Louis Poasteur
  04/07/25
Shut up jew
Traditional Latin ass
  04/07/25
Libs: "I wanted a Maoist revolution but not by him, not...
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Date: April 7th, 2025 4:21 PM
Author: ,.,...,..,.,.,:,.;,.,.,::,.....,;,.,.:.:.,;.::,.


"we are shedding excess labor in the federal government...and that will give us the labor we need for new manufacturing" Bessent says

1) So much for GuneratTTT's fantasy that fent addicts in Ohio were gonna get these jobs and turn their lives around, and

2) Sending physicians, scientists, economists, etc to work in steel mills is straight out of Mao's Cultural Revolution

https://x.com/JHWeissmann/status/1909273929333592170



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707017&forum_id=2#48825210)



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Date: April 7th, 2025 6:27 PM
Author: ,.,...,..,.,.,:,.;,.,.,::,.....,;,.,.:.:.,;.::,.


Scientists "demonstrated a promising step toward using a person's own immune cells to fight gastrointestinal cancers" at America's National Institutes of Health (or NIH), reports the Washington Post.

But the results were published in Nature Medicine on Tuesday — "the same day the agency was hit with devastating layoffs..."

The treatment approach is still early in its development; the personalized immunotherapy regimen shrank tumors in only about a quarter of the patients with colon, rectal and other GI cancers enrolled in a clinical trial. But a researcher who was not involved in the study called the results "remarkable" because they highlight a path to a frustratingly elusive goal in medicine — harnessing a person's own immune defenses to target common solid tumor cancers. Until now, cell-based immunotherapy has worked mainly on blood cancers, such as leukemia, but not the solid cancers that seed tumors in the breast, brain, lungs, pancreas and GI tract...

But the progress arrives at a sad time for science — and for patients, said the leader of the work, NIH immunotherapy pioneer Steven Rosenberg. Two patients' treatments using the experimental therapy had to be delayed because NIH's capacity to make personalized cell therapies has been slowed by the firing of highly skilled staff and by purchasing slowdowns. Those occurred even before major layoffs took place Tuesday... The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) responded to an email asking about clinical trial delays with a statement: "NIH and HHS are complying with President Trump's executive order."

It's "a very exciting study," said Patrick Hwu, president of the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa.

Finding ways to tailor this cell-based immunotherapy approach to common solid tumors that cause the vast majority of cancer deaths has remained a major scientific challenge... Rosenberg and colleagues first tried to create tumor infiltrating lymphocytes [or "TILs"] using the method that worked in melanoma for 18 patients with GI cancers that had spread. It failed completely. In a second iteration, his team sequenced the mutations present in each patient's tumor and used that information to sift out and expand the TILs that could home in on that patient's specific tumor cells. The results were far from a triumph, but provided a clue — this time, three of 39 patients' tumors shrank. In the last stage of the trial, the scientists added a drug called pembrolizumab that takes the brakes off immune cells. This time, eight of the 34 patients responded.

"Right now, only a few labs in the country can do what they just did," Hwu said.

While Rosenberg is already working "to refine and improve upon the results," he told the Post that two scientists involved in the specialized process of preparing the cells to treat patients were fired in the probationary purge. "We've had to slow down our work and delay the treatment of some patients...."

And there's also dramatically fewer people now who can purchase research materials, which the Post says it "making it slower and more difficult to obtain supplies."

https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/04/07/0444201/americas-nih-scientists-have-a-cancer-breakthrough-layoffs-are-delaying-it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707017&forum_id=2#48825648)



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Date: April 7th, 2025 4:25 PM
Author: Gay Grandpa

This is correctly reasonable.

Think of it as a form of rehabilitation for people who will contributing to society for the first time in their lives. Turning their lives around.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707017&forum_id=2#48825221)



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Date: April 7th, 2025 4:27 PM
Author: theranchman

jesus christ lol

u just luv jew cock dont u

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707017&forum_id=2#48825229)



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Date: April 7th, 2025 6:28 PM
Author: Oh, you trade? (🧐)

there is no singular group, not even fedgov employees, more collectively useless/value-sucking and overpaid than lawyers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707017&forum_id=2#48825653)



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Date: April 7th, 2025 4:27 PM
Author: Louis Poasteur

Bessent is a true dumbass on this stuff. No advanced economics training, didn't even major in it in undergrad, his last hedge fund had abysmal performance and his sole claim to fame seems to be having being around Soros for 30+ years but working at a hedge fund is an extremely different thing from other finance roles or government policy roles and rewards completely different skills and aptitudes. He blamed the plummet last week on "DeepSeek" (released months ago), said markets have these kinds of reactions "from time to time" (in fact this big only four times in 80 years) and seems to employ complete magical thinking about retraining government workers for factory work.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707017&forum_id=2#48825230)



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Date: April 7th, 2025 6:30 PM
Author: Traditional Latin ass

Shut up jew

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707017&forum_id=2#48825659)



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Date: April 7th, 2025 6:34 PM
Author: '"'"'"''"

Libs: "I wanted a Maoist revolution but not by him, not like this."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707017&forum_id=2#48825663)