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Derek Thompson
DKThomp
There have been a couple of great podcasts/articles about why NFL teams are still so bad at picking QBs. Coupla thoughts.1. QB is one of the most contingent jobs in
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The Citizens
allthecitizens
EXCLUSIVE: Over half a billion pounds of UK Covid-19 testing contracts awarded to multinational accused of supplying goods to China that assist ‘genomic surveillance’. THREAD: US-based life science company Thermo
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Prof Francois Balloux
BallouxFrancois
Reconstruction of transmission chains (i.e. who infected whom) is a sophisticated subfield in infection disease epidemiology. This atrocious drivel masquerading as science, with no stats, no genomic sequencing, no nothing
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Nikita
lafemme_bambina
Why did Hopkins professor James Taylor die? https://twitter.com/jhuartssciences/status/1246146550541225985 This man analyzed genomic data. Something is not right Contracted with NIH? Slide show in link https://speakerdeck.com/jxtx/introduction-to-the
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halvorz ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
halvorz
pretty fucked up that eukaryotic and prokaryotic DNA polymerases arent homologoushttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3809583/ like, super fucked up actuallyrefused to believe it first time i heard of itstill mad this didn't com
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Irenes (many)
ireneista
Quick reference to COVID-19 variants of concern:B.1.1.7: first identified in the UK, more transmissible.B.1.351: first identified in South Africa, some vaccines are less effective.We're going to try to use the
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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
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Felix
felixhol
At long, long, last - Mosquitoes Meet Microfluidics. The vectorChip is on bioRxiv. A short thread. 1/nhttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.19.345603v1 I moved to @PrakashLab in 2015 to 'do genomics on single mosquito bites
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Fatima Tokhmafshan (she/elle) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
DeNovo_Fatima
In this thread I'll address the INACCURATE claim that the #COVID19 strain found in Québec is somehow more virulent & therefore the reason Québec was the epicentre of the pandemic
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Eric Topol
EricTopol
December 2020UK—Hey US, we've got a variant that has >50% higher infectiousness, >30% increased lethality, and you'll need to vaccinate like no tomorrow to prevent a major surgeMay 2021US—We got
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The Wall Street Journal
WSJ
A new Covid-19 surge hit India after loosening restrictions and public complacency set in, with variants possibly at play. Infections among its population have continued to rise each day since
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Aatur Singhi, MD PhD
PancPathologist
1/n So let’s give this a try: As a #Pathology resident @JHUPath, one of the first #PancreaticCysts I ever grossed was an Intraductal Oncocytic Papillary Neoplasm. Signed it out with
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Fleur Meddens
fleurmeddens
GWAS of dietary intake: A thread to help interpret our results. All technical details are exhaustively described in our Supplement! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-020-0697-5 /1 We studied *relative* intake of carbs, fat, protein,
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James Taylor
jxtx
Can we talk about genomic data sharing for #covid19 #SARSCoV2 research? There is a great data portal from @NCBI, but only had ~173 genomes and ~41 raw sequencing read data
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Trevor Bedford
trvrb
It's hard for me to infer the degree to which new variants are driving the surge in cases in India, but we are seeing rapid growth in frequency of multiple
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Schübeler Lab
SchubelerLab
Happy to share our latest study on site-specific turnover of DNA methylation: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16354-x Genomic maps of DNA methylation, while informative about genome activity and cell state, provide only a freeze
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