#Genomes

Angry Staffer

Angry_Staffer

THREAD: There’s some confusion under this original post, so it’s thread time, folks!The intelligence community is still reviewing this, but they are increasingly feeling that it’s possible this came from

Claire Berlinski.

ClaireBerlinski

I did not finish this, and it seems it was a bit too technical to interest anyone, but man, it is in the technical parts that the interest lies, and

Daniela Robles

daniela_oaks

Today is #WorldMelanomaDay! Let me tell you about a rare subtype that represents most of the cases in several countries in Latin America, Africa & Asia & our efforts @LIIGH_UNAM

Jay Hinton

jay_salsa

1/5 African S. Typhimurium ST313 has 23 Lineage 2-specific pseudogenes, discovered by @DrRobKingsley in 2009, inc ybjZ.But what is function?In collab with Jared Honeycutt @monack_lab, we've discovered that MacB (YbjZ)

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Worrisome mutation: “At least four lab experiments suggest that the mutation makes the virus more infectious. Another study from Los Alamos National Lab finds that patients with the G

Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓

BillyBostickson

1. Update on WIV "Deleted Database" Evidence of 1 project being potential origin of SARS-CoV-2 outbreak.Project involved novel bat viral pathogen research & Wuhan Central Hospital.Did Wuhan CDC work with

Alexandra Thorn

AlexandraThorn9

4) Selective pressure explains the phenomenon of antimicrobial resistant "supergerms" as well as pesticide resistant insects. It's a well-documented phenomenon. 5) To ensure that classes of pesticides continue to be

Cindy Ermus

CindyErmus

I wrote this piece for @STATNews to mark the tricentennial of the start of the Great Plague of Provence, the last of the great* outbreaks of plague in W. Europe.

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

The drivers of the #COVID19 epidemic in India are certainly multifactorial, but we have now seen the viral lineage B.1.617 linked to this epidemic continue to increase in frequency in

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

Our preprint is up on bioRxiv! We discuss key findings about the adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 for humans, scenarios for cross species transmission (pangolins, Wuhan Huanan market), and measures to prevent

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

Get ready. This is going to be an important thread. Election season will be over soon and hopefully more people will devote some attention to this...I'm going to walk through

Heather E Heying

HeatherEHeying

Ignorance, arrogance, and the wielding of credentials to shut down discourse: a triple threat.When these three characteristics show up in one place, I feel a responsibility to at least slow

Sangxa

sangxa

“On 9 March, a patient who had recently traveled to Europe and had symptoms of COVID-19 visited the emergency department of St Augustine’s, a private hospital in Durban, South Africa.”

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

I wanted to respond to news of #COVID19 death in Santa Clara County on Feb 6. This is an interesting, if slightly puzzling, data point. 1/9 We know that there

Kahlil Corazo

kcorazo

1/23 WHY WE ARE BUILDING AN OPEN PLAYBOOK FOR DEPLOYING GENOMIC PATHOGEN SURVEILLANCE.Primarily for developing countries, but smaller towns in developed countries would also find this useful. 2/ I cover

Neil Barrett

dr_barrett

So @NickHudsonCT seems to think @Kevin_McKernan “DEMOLISHED” my recent thread on @ClareCraigPath ‘s pretty awful PANDA document https://twitter.com/dr_barrett/status/1378878486027309057?s=21Let’s examine that proposition - I ask yo