#Genes

Rob Henderson

robkhenderson

People don't have genes, genes have peoplePeople don't have ideas (memes), memes have people Memes are “units of culture: ideas, beliefs, practices, and anything else that can be passed on

François Rousset

FrancoisRousset

My paper is out on bioRxiv! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.25.114553v1In this work with @dbikard, @epcrocha and others, we used CRISPRi screening in a collection of E. coli isolates to better define essential genes

Jonathan Pritchard

jkpritch

How can we systematically measure gene regulatory networks around key disease genes? Excited to share our new work using CRISPR KOs in primary T cells, with @MarsonLab, led by @JakeFreimer

Jarrad Hall

CdrHBiscuitIII

There’s a lot of speculation that COVID may become less virulent. This is still an old concept in the field, akin to aerosol vs droplet. In my own field it

KC

ClimbhiKc

So, after a period, here is the next thread. Many of you have heard of Richard Dawkins and 'The Selfish Gene'. Dawkins plays an important role here. While Dawkins has

Leora Zev🐺🇮🇱

InvestmentsZev

1. For thousands of years, various phenotypes of humans have fought, killed , raped and enslaved eachother. Theyve grown to fear or despise those who have proven themselves to be

Olivia Tidswell

OliviaTidswell

I am super excited to announce that my preprint with @DrMattBenton has just gone live! "The neuroblast timer gene nubbin exhibits functional redundancy with gap genes to regulate segment identity

Theo Sanderson

theosanderson

Paper paper! We investigated what genes malaria parasites need to develop in the liver using barcode-sequencing. Exciting collaboration led by @rrlimenitakis @bushell_lab and @AnushChP. https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0092867419311808 We had

Jake Bailey 🦅

Bacob_jailey

8 Esoteric Steps to a Healthy Diet, a thread on Deep Nutrition:1. Avoid unhealthy fats/seed oils - canola- corn- cottonseed- grape seed - sunflower- safflower - rice bran- soyRead all

Sonja Lehtinen

sonjaklehtinen

Why do bacterial plasmids carry some genes but not others? Plasmids are less reliably inherited than the chromosome and genes are free to hop between plasmid and chromosome: so what

stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE)

StephenORahilly

Before I go off Twitter for a week or so to get on with proper work it might be helpful, at least for some correspondents, to review a few pretty

Everything Is ___________

BraveNewIdeas

Anyhoo, David Stove’s “Darwinian Fairytales”. Here we go. Altruism within the evo scope can only be understood as a self serving strategy, yet notice how “pathological altruism” have been discussed

John Hawks

johnhawks

I saw a press release for this paper, and thought, whoa, those are some provocative claims. Then I read it. It is hard to describe how bad it is. "Evolution

Adriaan

A_van_der_graaf

Today we're sharing an analysis of the genetics behind two important COVID-19 genes: ACE2 and TMPRSS2. A thread on what we have found 1/9https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.22.20074963v1 @LifelinesNL @serenasanna1 ACE2 and TMPRSS2 are

Poopie

Poopie_cat

A @CryptoKitties Founder, one of the first 100 cats in CK, just sold for $18,000.A year ago you could buy one for less than $3k.How did the Founder market get

Clement “I beat COVID19” Chow

ClementYChow

New @chowlab paper about #NGLY1 up on @biorxivpreprint! A big effort between postdoc @dana_talsness and grad student @kgowings. With important help from Aylin Rodan & @NathanClark111’s groups at @UofUMedicine &