#BioRxiv

Laurie Garrett

Laurie_Garrett

Dynamics of airborne #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 spread inside a Wuhan hospital:"The results from this study provide the 1st field report on the characteristics of airborne SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan w/ important implications

Adi Millman

AdiMillman

Happy to share our new preprint about how we solved the mystery of some of the coolest bacterial elements:Retrons function as anti-phage defense systems!https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.06.21.156273v1See thread below by the 3 of

Alexander V. Lebedev

alvlebedev

@talyarkoni This. We fully acknowledge methods and interpretability limitations (loading particularly heavily on the causality part) and I firmly believe we'd have agreed on most of the raised concerns. Just

Lior Pachter

lpachter

From the outset of the #covid19 pandemic, it's been clear that risk of death increases sharply with age. But why? The intuitive hypothesis is that ACE2 expr. increases w/ age,

Felix

felixhol

At long, long, last - Mosquitoes Meet Microfluidics. The vectorChip is on bioRxiv. A short thread. 1/nhttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.19.345603v1 I moved to @PrakashLab in 2015 to 'do genomics on single mosquito bites

Kristian G. Andersen

K_G_Andersen

A few comms on the (lack of) scientific merits of the "Yan Report". It is non-scientific and false - cherry picking data and ignoring data disproving their hypotheses.It's using technical

Paul Romer

paulmromer

1. Offer all frontline health care workers a quick turnaround molecular test for presence of the virus (RT-PCR or LAMP test). Isolate if positive. 2. Offer the same type of

Victor Nizet

victornizet

Thread (1/6)Good as Gold or Too Good to Be True? Interesting preprint out today shows that the FDA-approved gold-based drug auranofin, strongly inhibits novel coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) replication while markedly attenuating

Priya Sampathkumar

PSampathkumarMD

Cross reactive immunity to COVID?Several studies now suggest that T cells reactive to COVID may be present even in persons without prior exposure to SARS CoV-2 suggesting presence of cross

Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D.

wormmaps

So I just said on a press call: I think the most productive thing we can do is remove a dichotomy where it was either this one specific market or

Karolina Lempert

karolinalempert

My paper on autobiographical memory and intertemporal choice is out now in Scientific Reports! A thread...https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63373-1 Do individual differences in how we decide about the future reflect individual differences in

Pablo Cárdenas R.

pcr_guy

#CRISPR interference is great because it lets you use a single dCas9 to turn off multiple loci with different gRNAs. But this has a cost: all those gRNAs compete for

Paul Romer

paulmromer

The twitter thread version of my plan: 0. Stop testing people with symptoms. Presume positive and isolate. 1. Offer all frontline health care workers a quick turnaround molecular test for

Lu Chen

houndcl

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=&term=Camostat&cntry=&state=&city=&dist= 5 Camostat trials proposed based on ∅.If TMPRSS2 not expressed, water-like activity at 50uM. Otherwise, some inhibition at 10uM https://www.biorx

Perran Ross

MosWhisperer

New paper on the stability of Wolbachia in mosquitoes is out today on bioRxiv. Thread.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/853473v1 Remember the wMelPop or ‘popcorn’ strain of Wolbachia? It was introduced into mosquitoes to shorten

Akash Guru

Akash_Guru_

I’m very excited to share the main results from my PhD work through biorxiv. “Ramping activity in midbrain dopamine neurons signifies the use of a cognitive map”https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.21.108886v1 This project