Bryant Furlow
@bryantfurlow.bsky.social
I cover public health policy and medical science for The Lancet news desks and other outlets. Investigative journalist and ProPublica LRN alum.
Image: Michele Banks @Artologica
Image: Michele Banks @Artologica
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What Everyone Should Know About Fungi by Age 15
8️⃣ Mycorrhizal fungi extend root systems up to 100 times their normal reach, enabling plants to access hard-to-reach nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen.
See the top 10 list (www.spun.earth/articles/top...) and follow for new fungal facts.
8️⃣ Mycorrhizal fungi extend root systems up to 100 times their normal reach, enabling plants to access hard-to-reach nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen.
See the top 10 list (www.spun.earth/articles/top...) and follow for new fungal facts.
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
What Everyone Should Know About Fungi by Age 15
8️⃣ Mycorrhizal fungi extend root systems up to 100 times their normal reach, enabling plants to access hard-to-reach nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen.
See the top 10 list (www.spun.earth/articles/top...) and follow for new fungal facts.
8️⃣ Mycorrhizal fungi extend root systems up to 100 times their normal reach, enabling plants to access hard-to-reach nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen.
See the top 10 list (www.spun.earth/articles/top...) and follow for new fungal facts.
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What Everyone Should Know About Fungi by Age 15
9️⃣ Mycorrhizal fungi are master soil engineers. They build the physical scaffolding for living soils, supporting agriculture, biodiversity, and carbon storage.
See the top 10 list (buff.ly/33Ov3UD) and follow for new fungal facts.
9️⃣ Mycorrhizal fungi are master soil engineers. They build the physical scaffolding for living soils, supporting agriculture, biodiversity, and carbon storage.
See the top 10 list (buff.ly/33Ov3UD) and follow for new fungal facts.
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
What Everyone Should Know About Fungi by Age 15
9️⃣ Mycorrhizal fungi are master soil engineers. They build the physical scaffolding for living soils, supporting agriculture, biodiversity, and carbon storage.
See the top 10 list (buff.ly/33Ov3UD) and follow for new fungal facts.
9️⃣ Mycorrhizal fungi are master soil engineers. They build the physical scaffolding for living soils, supporting agriculture, biodiversity, and carbon storage.
See the top 10 list (buff.ly/33Ov3UD) and follow for new fungal facts.
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There's a big divide in how Americans are thinking about vaccines:
♦️83% of Republicans don't want an updated COVID-19 vaccine.
🔷64% of Democrats want to get or have already received an updated vaccine.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧪
♦️83% of Republicans don't want an updated COVID-19 vaccine.
🔷64% of Democrats want to get or have already received an updated vaccine.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧪
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
There's a big divide in how Americans are thinking about vaccines:
♦️83% of Republicans don't want an updated COVID-19 vaccine.
🔷64% of Democrats want to get or have already received an updated vaccine.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧪
♦️83% of Republicans don't want an updated COVID-19 vaccine.
🔷64% of Democrats want to get or have already received an updated vaccine.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧪
www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/dep...
One complicating wrinkle for New Mexico’s universal child care policy: it is funded (via the Early Childhood Trust Fund and the Land Grant Permanent Fund) with oil and gas receipts from the methane-spewing Permian Basin.
One complicating wrinkle for New Mexico’s universal child care policy: it is funded (via the Early Childhood Trust Fund and the Land Grant Permanent Fund) with oil and gas receipts from the methane-spewing Permian Basin.
Vital City | New Mexico: Surprising Proving Ground for Two Big Mamdani Ideas?
What the mayor-elect can learn from the Southwest state
www.vitalcitynyc.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/dep...
One complicating wrinkle for New Mexico’s universal child care policy: it is funded (via the Early Childhood Trust Fund and the Land Grant Permanent Fund) with oil and gas receipts from the methane-spewing Permian Basin.
One complicating wrinkle for New Mexico’s universal child care policy: it is funded (via the Early Childhood Trust Fund and the Land Grant Permanent Fund) with oil and gas receipts from the methane-spewing Permian Basin.
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💥 🍃 🧬 🧪 Gene Therapy for Hunter Syndrome
November 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
💥 🍃 🧬 🧪 Gene Therapy for Hunter Syndrome
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How exciting!
CRISPR reversed chemotherapy resistance in lung cancer, making tumors more responsive to chemotherapy. Eventually this tool can be applied to other types of cancers.
CRISPR has so many applications.
🧪 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
CRISPR reversed chemotherapy resistance in lung cancer, making tumors more responsive to chemotherapy. Eventually this tool can be applied to other types of cancers.
CRISPR has so many applications.
🧪 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
CRISPR unlocks a new way to defeat resistant lung cancer
Scientists used CRISPR to disable the NRF2 gene, restoring chemotherapy sensitivity in lung cancer cells and slowing tumor growth. The technique worked even when only a fraction of tumor cells were ed...
www.sciencedaily.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
How exciting!
CRISPR reversed chemotherapy resistance in lung cancer, making tumors more responsive to chemotherapy. Eventually this tool can be applied to other types of cancers.
CRISPR has so many applications.
🧪 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
CRISPR reversed chemotherapy resistance in lung cancer, making tumors more responsive to chemotherapy. Eventually this tool can be applied to other types of cancers.
CRISPR has so many applications.
🧪 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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Republicans increasingly oppose requiring healthy kids to get MMR vaccines to attend public schools
2016 19%
2019 20%
2023 42%
2025 47%
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪
2016 19%
2019 20%
2023 42%
2025 47%
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Republicans increasingly oppose requiring healthy kids to get MMR vaccines to attend public schools
2016 19%
2019 20%
2023 42%
2025 47%
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪
2016 19%
2019 20%
2023 42%
2025 47%
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪
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Who should have a major role in making childhood vaccine policy decisions?
💉Democrats are most likely to say medical scientists 🧪
💉Republicans are most likely to say parents
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025...
💉Democrats are most likely to say medical scientists 🧪
💉Republicans are most likely to say parents
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025...
November 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Who should have a major role in making childhood vaccine policy decisions?
💉Democrats are most likely to say medical scientists 🧪
💉Republicans are most likely to say parents
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025...
💉Democrats are most likely to say medical scientists 🧪
💉Republicans are most likely to say parents
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025...
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This graph shows the single year age population in Republican voting states death rate as the percent of the same death rate in Democratic voting states. See text below graph for more information. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #News #Think
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
This graph shows the single year age population in Republican voting states death rate as the percent of the same death rate in Democratic voting states. See text below graph for more information. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #News #Think
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Another reason RFK jr should resign
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Another reason RFK jr should resign
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Whooping cough surges nationwide as vaccinations fall medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11...
"...latest rise in pertussis cases is being driven by falling vaccination rates..."
"...babies remain the most vulnerable."
"...latest rise in pertussis cases is being driven by falling vaccination rates..."
"...babies remain the most vulnerable."
Whooping cough surges nationwide as vaccinations fall
Whooping cough is making a major comeback in the United States, with sharp increases now seen in Texas, Florida, California, Oregon and many other places.
medicalxpress.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Whooping cough surges nationwide as vaccinations fall medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11...
"...latest rise in pertussis cases is being driven by falling vaccination rates..."
"...babies remain the most vulnerable."
"...latest rise in pertussis cases is being driven by falling vaccination rates..."
"...babies remain the most vulnerable."
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CASSIDY: I know it's titillating, but I think we need to move beyond the titillation
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
CASSIDY: I know it's titillating, but I think we need to move beyond the titillation
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
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Yet another unique way to stimulate cellular immunity against cancer.
“Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.”
#ScienceSunday
“Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.”
#ScienceSunday
Inducing immunity against cancer via the gut
Could a microbe that can smuggle antigens into the immune system of the gut provide a simple way to treat cancers?
www.nature.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Yet another unique way to stimulate cellular immunity against cancer.
“Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.”
#ScienceSunday
“Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.”
#ScienceSunday
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Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.
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Utterly lawless
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Utterly lawless
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The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
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CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
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Epstein survivor Haley Robson refutes Mike Johnson: "The survivors that don't want to be public are Jane Does. They've been protected and their names have been redacted the whole time ... I don't care if my name is redacted is not."
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Epstein survivor Haley Robson refutes Mike Johnson: "The survivors that don't want to be public are Jane Does. They've been protected and their names have been redacted the whole time ... I don't care if my name is redacted is not."
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Living costs and politics have lead to PhD students studying abroad
Read the full story: go.nature.com/3Xx4G3t
Read the full story: go.nature.com/3Xx4G3t
November 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Living costs and politics have lead to PhD students studying abroad
Read the full story: go.nature.com/3Xx4G3t
Read the full story: go.nature.com/3Xx4G3t
