#Strains

I’m now officially 3 years into my beer marketing journey in B’lore. Access to brewery ops, procurement, sales, restaurant ops, leadership & other teams means I learn a TON of
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Given that a percentage (8%-https://medium.com/medical-myths-and-models/the-human-genome-is-full-of-viruses-c18ba52ac195) of our own DNA is virus-based & viruses are VERY adaptable in that they MUTATE FREQUENTLY (https://www.sciencedire
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As promised, a thread explaining our newest BioRxiv paper, where we’ve discovered that C. elegans can transfer memories of pathogen avoidance to naïve individuals.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.28.424563v1 What if one wo
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Republican member of the US House of Reps infected 14 days after 1st dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.https://twitter.com/spwells/status/1346685409401552896 Why giving out only 1 dose of the vaccine in the hope
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2020 is not over yet!- a new strain of covid was discovered in the UK, named VUI-2020/12/01- up to 70% more transmissible- the severity of measures has to go up
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//THREAD\\ Deebo Samuel —By popular demand, Deebo is my next injury project for this offseason.The polarizing YAC is in FF purgatory right now. Managers don’t know if they should
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I keep getting asked about the possibility that sars-cov2 will be with us for a long time (many of the questions are driven, I think, by Chris Murray’s statement that
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As we wait for vaccines, let’s not forget drugs. We still need effective drugs against SARS-CoV-2 (and other coronaviruses that will infect humans in the future).There is an approach that
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One year ago today, Chinese scientists posted the first 6 sequences for a novel coronavirus (nCOV), now SARS-CoV-2 the cause of COVID-19 Dr. George Gao is head of China CDC
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I'm forever telling students about the virtues of working with peers. Please to tell you I am totally living this myself. My article with Michelle Bentley (not on Twitter) on
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I received this email from someone last week that I can't stop thinking about. I probably received this since I have been openly optimistic about vaccine efforts. So I wanted
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I had a good discussion with @EddieNestorMBE about Covid-19 in London on his @BBCRadioLondon show. The situation in London is very serious, with the number of Covid-19 cases doubling in
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I'm so damn mad... I'm actually sarcastic today.I want to know one thing...Last time yall saw viral engineers or scientists working with viruses like they tell us to dress and
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BREAKING: Ireland's Covid-19 surge due to increased social mixing, and not new variant - WHOhttps://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/covid-19-surge-due-to-increased-social-mixing-says-who-s-mike-ryan-1.4455748 "My own country in Irel
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“Pandemic anxiety has turned lately to the question of viral evolution—the possibility that the disease might be outracing our efforts to contain it.” Of all the new strains, the Brazilian
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A counterpoint to the alarm bells that are sounding over novel SARS-CoV-2 variants.Is it possible that we are misinterpreting differences in human behavior as differences in the biological fitness of
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