#Genes

Ligures Ambrones

LiguresAmbrones

What do Neanderthals and Polar bears have in common? What is the HERC2 Gene and ... what does People's Republic of China have to do with all this? Follow this

Dr. Ali Nouri

AliNouriPhD

1/Next US Vaccine:@Novavax began Phase 3 Trial. KEY difference: While Moderna/Pfizer deliver genetic material (mRNA) that our cells subsequently turn into Spike protein, #Novavax delivers the Spike protein directly. To

Ludger Wess

LudgerWess

It always strikes me as absurd to see non-biologists writing in a mock-up scientific style utter nonsense about heredity and plant breeding. Inducing radiation damage in thousands of genes is

Henry Liu

HenryLiu_CPMC

1/13Attending: Why don’t we use cipro to treat PNA?Intern: B/c it doesn’t penetrate the lung?Attending: Right! It isn’t a “respiratory fluoroquinolone”.ಠ_ಠ…well yes, but no. So close.@tweetorial #medtwitter @CuriousClinPod @

Younes

kmlyounes

I believe I found a severe flaw/lie in white nationalist Sean Last's post linked below :https://ideasanddata.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/nassim-taleb-on-iq/He reports that average statistical power for intelligence research and "group

Denver Ncube⚪

denvern3

1. So there are questions surrounding the vaccines that have been developed particularly around the speed of development and whether this has an impact on their safety and efficacy. I

Jeremy J Barr

JeremyJBarr

About a year ago we shared this picture of 40yr old phage stocks and asked "what should we do with them?" Replies: 'check titre!' 'get WGS' and 'are they the

Jessica Price

Delafina777

oh, one more thing before I sign off:check in on the Boomers in your life(short thread) Over the holidays I was talking to a Boomer relative, and she mentioned missing

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Okay, I'm seeing a lot of "the end is nigh"-type posts as well as a lot of people misunderstanding this story, so let's talk about "pandemic potential" for #influenza viruseshttps://www.bbc.com/news/health-532187

Vinci Zijun Wang

VinciZijun

Our newest data showed antibody and memory B cell responses in a cohort of 20 volunteers who received either the Moderna (mRNA-1273) or Pfizer/BioNTech (BNT162b2) vaccines. 1/https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.15.426911v1 mRNA

Delgoffe Lab

DelgoffeLab

At long last, I get to share publication of a project (out today in @Nature) on which I started my lab at @UPMCHillmanCC and @PittTweet in 2014. In it, we

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

Some people are super confused about RaTG13, one of the most closely related viruses to SARS-CoV-2, because of how sparse/disjointed its descriptions have been in interviews and papers. I'll try

Yule Wilhelm

Wilhelm716

I am confident to say beauty is one of the most important aspects of all reality. We evolved over millions of years to identify what is beautiful and what is

Simon Wardley

swardley

Contextual blindness - the tendency for members of the privileged to think that something other than luck was responsible for their position and privilege ->https://twitter.com/indiyoung/status/1338623809939779584 X : Why random?Me :

Doug Portman 🐛🏳️‍🌈🧬

doug_p

Our paper on flexibility in the cellular encoding of sexual state in C. elegans is out today! Great work from @TheScientistHan, @LeighWexler (former @portmanlab graduate students) and Hayley Wnuk (current

Veera M. Rajagopal

doctorveera

Interesting GWAS of human ageing based on PCA analysis of multiple ageing phenotypes (mother and father life span, longevity etc.) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.22.427837v1 As I often recommend, here too effect size plot

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