Web 57DHYAFZZFLMS2 November 6 2026 New Legislators who begin in office in 2027 are gearing up
New Legislators who begin in office in Two Thousand Twenty Seven are gearing up to help the average American by supporting research in science and medicine The win by Democrats addresses voter concerns unmet by the current US Executive A Midwestern University animal sciences department discovered proteins that are at the heart of a type of heart disease RBM20 a protein that controls RNA splicing if mutated into disease causing RBM20 damages the heart through two distinct mechanisms Abnormal RBM20 can form abnormal cyto-granules including CELF1 and MBNL2 Therefore abnormal RBM20s if identified are a promising therapeutic target for treating severe inherited cardiomyopathy which causes the heart’s chambers to enlarge and weaken Even ordinary not severe dilated cardiomyopathy affects one in Two Hundred Fifty people and can lead to heart failure and life threatening arrhythmias Newly Elected Lawmakers Know Something the Current US Federal Executive Does not Science! They plan to take on a White House that has threatened funding cuts to research Several scientists and physicians were elected to Congress on Tuesday Most are Democrats and most were elected to the House They plan to use their knowledge to combat what they see as the anti-science policies promoted by the Current US Executive The incoming scientists represent a real repudiation of what has been two terrible years for science and public health said the president of Three Fourteen Action a group that recruits Democratic doctors and scientists to run for office Her group supported Democratic candidates who ended up winning in the House as well as two incoming senators named Abdul El-Sayed an epidemiologist in Michigan and Annie Andrews a pediatrician in South Carolina In some publications physicians and academics who stop practicing once elected to a political office are not given the courtesy title doctor After World War Two the United States became a scientific powerhouse thanks to federal funding of research in the sciences But decades of partnership between Washington and defense contractors Silicon Valley and other sectors are being undermined by the current Federal executive The current Federal executive and congressional Republicans have enacted cuts to Medicaid and allowed the expiration of tax credits provided by the Affordable Care Act The current administration has sought cuts to science funding and has subjected research to political scrutiny Thousands of experts have left agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services now led by RFK Junior a vaccine skeptic whose Make America Healthy Again or MAHA movement has been accused of peddling junk science Now is a good time to course-correct and actually provide some oversight Among those who hope to face off against RFK Junior is a woman microbiologist at Emory University who will represent parts of Atlanta Georgia in the House next year She organized a pro-science march and criticized how Georgia reported coronavirus cases during the pandemic Lately she has watched with dismay as the Federal Center for Disease Control C D C which is based in Atlanta has been drained of expertise She was critical of the RFK Junior inconsistent messaging about the safety and efficacy of vaccines and the RFK Junior handling of a growing number of measles outbreaks She said MAHA is making us sicker Investigating the current administration will be one aspect of the agenda Another will be to create policy of their own A woman who has a chemical engineering degree from Cornell and will represent a district in northern New Jersey said she had many constituents who worked in the health care industry and were concerned about what she described as the federal government’s destructive interference in the workings of the scientific establishment