#Genome

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

Another evergreen reminder - ethnicity (or "race") is a process of self identification, often ticking a set of boxes, or gestalt assessment using visible characteristics of people (skin colour, hair

Zhou Lab

ZhouLabUCR

Researchers have identified microscopic features including a unique furin cleavage site that could make the pathogen more infectious than the SARS virus @DrEricDing https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00660-x More information on the furin muta

sravan

stuntkidsra1

Why China is belligerently opposing the open and independent investigation regarding the origin ? I mean why ?- If it's a mistake, okay it's a mistake but we would be

Dipesh Gopal

DipeshGopal

1/THREAD about why race is in the @NICEComms hypertension (blood pressure) guidelines and why it should go: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng136 @MedCrisis and I read #AngelaSaini's book "Superior" and were horrified at

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

Yann Duroc - Jamais sans mon masque

DurocYann

Une nouvelle étape vers la stérilité mâle génique à façon chez les plantes cultivées grâce à l'édition du génome via Crispr/Cas9Et si demain l’édition génomique permettait de produire des hybrides

Ayush Sharma

ayushswrites

How Innovation Works. A thread summarizing the latest @naval podcast with @mattwridley1/N Naval: I don't have heroes. But Matt Ridley's body of work had an early and formative influence on

Dr. Tara Sander Lee

DrTaraSanderLee

Finally joined Twitter today because I can't let the misinformation circulating about President Trump's #Covid_19 treatment continue unchecked.Uninformed commentators are claiming President Trump received a medication created with t

Matthew Hahn

3rdreviewer

New review paper with @mlsmith78 on the use of gene duplicates in phylogenetic inference:https://ecoevorxiv.org/wzcbg/ I really loved writing this paper, and realized that I almost always enjoy writing review papers. Here

Farah Qaiser

this_is_farah

I've made the difficult decision to skip the Public Record session & instead attend "The Promise of Science" featuring @robannan, @IvanSemeniuk, Alice Cohen & Amy Lemay. It's apparently an open

Wilson Lab CVR

WilsonLabCVR

New work from our @CVRinfo lab led by @virologist_atu revealing another innate immune 'defect' in horseshoe bats and linking this to why some people get more severe COVID-19:https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.05.2125668

Orchid

OrchidInc

We believe every couple that wants to conceive, should be able to do so confidently.Announcing Orchid, a first-of-its-kind, ultra high resolution genetic testing system for couples.https://guides.orchidhealth.com/post/announcing-orchid Orch

Corinne Reverbel

CorinneReverbel

Beda M Stadler est l'ancien directeur de l'Institut d'immunologie de l'Université de Berne"Il est probable qu'un grand nombre d'infections signalées quotidiennement soient purement dues à des débris viraux.&

Brian Feroldi

BrianFeroldi

15 Ted Talks that blew my mind 1: Paul Stamets on 6 Ways Mushrooms can save the world by I had NO IDEA mushrooms were so useful & interestinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI5frPV58tY 2:

Molle Guillaume

molleguillaume

A new paper on pre-european contact between Polynesians and Native Americans is out today in Nature. I rarely do this on Twitter but regarding this is my area of expertise,

Maliheh Mehrshad

mehrshmali

I'm happy to share our latest preprint about the unique microbial community of the deep oligotrophic groundwater.@Dopsongrp @Stebe69 @_Emma_Bell @MetaMoritz @simone_dome et al.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.24.111179v1