#NATURE

Shravanti Suresh

shra_krishna

1/nI made a list of #COVID-19 diagnostic tests that use #CRISPR-Cas technology and summarized the pre-prints! Also includes papers/articles that propose CRISPR-Cas based COVID-19 treatments. I might have missed some

Yuen Yuen Ang

yuenyuenang

My latest piece on #COVID19 is out @NatureHumBehav, part of @nature + OPEN ACCESS When COVID-19 Meets Centralized, Personalized Power The debate over whether autocracies or democracies are better at

Signor Ernesto

SignorErnesto

From St. Petersburg to Pandemic: stupid comments to @dottorpax & @nntaleb paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-020-0921-x)Disclaimer: i sincerely love Pasquale, he is the person I would like to be; great mathematician, great co

Bloom Lab

jbloom_lab

Lots of recent discussion about #SARSCoV2 re-infections, with 2 pre-prints describing possible examples. To contextualize these re-infections, I'd like to discuss the following papers, which document same-season re-infection with influe

Michael Gensheimer

MFGensheimer

Let’s talk about measuring performance of predictive models/biomarkers. Can we compare AUC across studies to rank models? Recent machine learning papers have had eye-popping AUC values (such as DeepMind's paper

Emma Marris

Emma_Marris

Hello nature-lovers trapped inside, like spring-drunk snakes itching to leave the hibernaculum! Happy Earth Day! Here are some recent pieces/threads on how we CAN and WILL act collectively to make

The Voice

BoetSchouwink

1/13 "Hydroxychloroquine was approved for medical use in the US in 1955. It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. In 2017, it was the 128th most

David Maizenberg

biologypartners

"The need to assess the potential of vaccine candidates to inadvertently worsen future coronavirus infections through a process called antibody-dependent enhancement was a major topic of discussion" https://www.biocentury.com/arti

Kyle MacDonald

kylemacd

I’m always pleased to see more help available for people to manage their mental health, and in the last 24 hours the government has announced boosted funding for - and

Dr. Maimuna Majumder ✊🏾

maiamajumder

Our paper on the role of environmental factors on #SARSCoV2 transmission (led by Canelle Poirier & @MauSantillana) has been peer-reviewed & is now live: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-74089-7In our study, we find a

TheDisabilityEnthusiast

twitchyspoonie

So, there is no disability that causes racism and that's obviously true.However, Tourette's can make you say racist things that you don't believe and have no relation to your thoughts

Kate Harvey

harveygothick

Zooming in from work to Zoom in to @GothicRomancing this evening!Tonight we have @Mrs_KStrange with Ecofeminism, the Gothic and the anthropocene A fellow graduate of Stirling's (already missed ) Masters

Eric Topol

EricTopol

It's important to acknowledge that #COVID19 is a new disease and we're still learning how best to treat it.Such as the threshold of using mechanical ventilators and tolerating low levels

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

One of the things scientists do when facing an outbreak of a new disease is build 'phylogenies'. These estimate how pathogen isolates are related by comparing their genomes, and using

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Kyunglovesbts

I'm in a chatty mood. (Most likely because I'm nervous about surgery tomorrow) Anyhow,I thought I would share some things about me. No idea how long this will get lol.

Hetan Shah

HetanShah

‘Epidemics are social as well as biological phenomena.’ My @nature piece on the importance of social science and humanities in tackling our big global challengeshttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00064-x Very helpful crowd sourced list