#Genomes

David Sinclair, PhD

davidasinclair

Finally had time to carefully read the new preprint that claims to reverse the age of rats by 54%. I spoke to the first author & in this thread ask

Lejoon

lejooon

Since early april I've been wondering if there's not a "black materia" of unexplained immunity to SARS-COV-2 by antibodies alone. The data did not really reconcile with the way cases

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

A friend of mine got C19. It was a very mild presentation. She recovered and survived it.Would you think that the experience debunked the fear?Sadly, it didn't. She is still

Magnus Nordborg

magnusnordborg

Some basic science in these trying times? Let me try to explain why this freshly posted preprint by @rshanburns, @Polina_Novik and me might be of interest to anyone with polyploid

Bat1k Genome Project

bat1kgenomes

Dear #Bat1K community! Facing the current situation we have something to share with you. Please keep on reading this thread on #bats and #COVIDー19 1/n We all find ourselves

Neil Gemmell

ProfGemmell

Tuatara genome published today. Hitting the keyboard briefly between interviews to update on the key findings of this project. This could end up being a long thread. Lovely summary here

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

COVID19 and molecular - mainly Genomics + Genetics research. Some big picture thoughts First off, understanding the disease this virus causes is important. It is clear that it has very

MalariaGEN

malariagenomics

and Chris Clarkson (@c_s_clarkson), Eleanor Drury, Daniel Mead, Jim Stalker, Dushyanth Jyothi, Cinzia Malangone, Mara Lawniczak (@marakat) and Dominic Kwiatkowski from @sangerinstitute. Anna Jeffreys, Christina Hubbart, Kate Rowlands and Ki

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Check out this very cool study from @casanova_lab hot off the press at @ScienceMagazine.It shows that very severe #COVID19 is associated with auto-antibodies against type I interferons.https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/09/23

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Okay, I'm seeing a lot of "the end is nigh"-type posts as well as a lot of people misunderstanding this story, so let's talk about "pandemic potential" for #influenza viruseshttps://www.bbc.com/news/health-532187

Kevin McKernan 🙂

Kevin_McKernan

Would you want to screen a population of asymptomatic people with qPCR primers that have 6base pair 3 primer dimers?The WHO recommends these primers.@MichaelYeadon3 @ClareCraigPath I’m not going to say

David Orlovich

davidorlovich

We have been collecting and studying these beautiful purple pouch fungi over the last few years, and our paper just out describing a whole lot of new species is available

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

Katarina Braun

KATarinambraun

New preprint We deep seq’d #SARSCoV2 and found within-host diversity is limited and rarely transmitted & transmission bottlenecks are narrow → slows the pace of #VOC emergence in *acute*

Newman Nahas

NahasNewman

1/ The most important evidence regarding pediatric transmission comes from Iceland, and their study published in NEJM. Be suspicious of any expert ignoring this paper and discussing anecdotes instead. https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NE

Orchid

OrchidInc

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