#Genetic

Leandros Boukas

LeandrosBoukas

Amazing resource. Aside from being extremely useful for clinical decision making, it provides a great opportunity to better understand the regulatory architecture of the genome, given the tight link between

Rhea Boyd MD, MPH

RheaBoydMD

Y'all we need to discuss this study recently published in @Health_Affairs. It is looking at COVID disparities here in California. The findings were striking but the analysis basically reified biological

Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

PCMR_Wiley

It's Friday again! Today #InterviewFriday, we talk to @PatriciaPossik, #melanoma researcher at the Brazilian National Cancer Institute and co-senior author of a comprehensive review on #acral melanoma:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi

GregroxMun

GregroxMun

I use fantasy races in my D&D games to basically thwart the idea of fantasy races as they're intended. That is, every "race-based" psychological trait that a given race must

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baset365

Why do men seek younger women? A comparison between the biological clock of the two genders Recently there has been an uproar of females demanding that we view men in

Daniel Reeders

engagedpractx

This piece suggests infection can be caused by a person with Covid-19 merely breathing within a 2 metre radius.As evidence it cites a letter that lists an assortment of studies

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MackayIM

nohttps://twitter.com/gummibear737/status/1300828259756707840 PCR doesn't make RNA, it makes DNA (it even says so in the figure!). PCR isn't making "copies of a specific DNA/RNA sample", but of a sequence region (if

nadey 💌

blessedunrestt

PLEASE RT #TODOSCONEMMITAEmmita is a baby from Argentina, more precisely Chaco, with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a very rare degenerative neuromuscular genetic disease that does not allow her to move

Wholesome Feminist 🌱

wholesomefemme

I think often of the physiological effects of trauma & how the doctors I've encountered prescribed medication & talk therapy. While I'm not opposed to either, I'm confused by how

Oni #BraylaStone Blackstock

DrOniBee

“The genetic record shows that it was mostly enslaved women who contributed to the present-day gene pool...Enslaved men often died before they had a chance to have children. Enslaved women

Michael Muthukrishna

mmuthukrishna

Now out! Beyond WEIRD Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distancehttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797620916782Summary thread: 1/ The world is not WEIRD vs non-WEIRD. How psychologically and cu

Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD

sharonmoalem

The numbers of life and death, as it applies to the chromosomal sexes. XX:XY. A thread. At birth, no matter where you look the numbers are pretty much the same.

Jeremiah Lewis

fringeblog

Observations of Cronenberg's The Fly (1986):It's no accident Seth Brundle and Stathis Borans share the same initials. In some ways they are mirrors of each other: man-children afraid of intimacy,

Rhea Boyd MD, MPH

RheaBoydMD

I’m going to list a few details from the report that are particualrly alarming. 1. Although Black Americans have the highest COVID mortality rates in the country, Latinx folks are

Nan Hayworth, M.D.

NanHayworth

(Thread) Dr. Madej's assertions are unsupported by science. In short, she's wrong. About a lot of things.Before we talk about vaccines, let's take a minute to talk about how viruses

Joanna Poole 💙

Jopo_dr

ARDS or acute respiratory distress syndrome is describe as severe hypoxic respiratory failure (measured by comparing inspired oxygen to arterial oxygen). It is a syndrome - not a diagnosis of