#Genomic

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

In-flight transmission despite required masks, gloves and pre-flight testing. @nntaleb A traveler tested negative for covid-19 before a flight. He had the virus and infected 4 passengers.https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2020/11/20/new-

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

tldr RaTG13, the virus most closely related to SARS-CoV-2 was discovered by the WIV in a bat cave in 2013 where 6 miners contracted a viral infection leading to severe

ساره🧬

scinxx

ثريد: 5طفيليات تتحكم بعقل العائل!تعتمد الطفيليات للبقاء على قيد الحياه على ناقل يساعدها على التنقل من جسم عائل لاخر. احيانا عبر التحكم بسلوك وسيط حي او مباشرة بدماغ العائل لكن..

Simon Barnett

sbarnettARK

The top community questions for tomorrow’s #mARKetUpdate concern our investment thesis around Invitae ($NVTA). I’m going to begin attaching my references () below, as well as some of my previous

WAKE UP AUSTRALIA WAKE UP

WakeAustralia

Halton was secretary of Dept of Health Ageing in Jan 2002. By 03 evidence came to light-CSL illegally mixing foreign blood (with HepC) into Australia's blood plasma supply. CSL passed

C Santana Molina

carlosSantanaMS

'Origin and evolution of polycyclic triterpenes' is finally out in @MolBioEvol! Very proud of my first paper and grateful to have learnt so many things thanks to @pvcbacteria, @amrojasmendoza @ElenaTFA.

Kiran Musunuru

kiranmusunuru

Lulu and Nana, humanity’s first gene-edited babies, both have some CRISPR edits in the CCR5 gene, as He Jiankui (JK) attempted. His goal was to confer HIV resistance.Unfortunately, the editing

Qiao Collective

qiaocollective

Spain has found COVID19 in water from March 2019, nine months before it was found in China.Ironically because China was the first & most competent to discover it while other

Ben McCluskey

BenkersBen

We now have the much-awaited report from the UK’s Global Travel Taskforce.Good points, and disappointing points.Here’s my thread breaking it down... Traffic light system confirmed: Hotel quarantine for

Andrew Hines

andrewhines

While our focus is on #COVID tracking privacy, a worrying advert in today’s @irishtimes advert today requesting consent from families of deceased brain tumour patients. Plan to share #DNA with

Unite against COVID-19

covid19nz

An Update on Alert LevelsAuckland will remain at Alert Level 3 and the rest of New Zealand will remain at Level 2 until 11:59 pm on Wednesday the 26th of

Aylwyn Scally

aylwyn_scally

Some thoughts on the recent paper about Polynesian ancestry by Ioannidis et al. (Long thread.)https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2487-2 The paper investigates ancestry in present-day Polynesians using genetic data from 354 individua

Dr Russell McGregor

KillAuDeepState

1) Thread - VERY IMPORTANTHave we outsourced verification and creation of the VICTORIA COVID-19 outbreak to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 2) The Victorian “second-wave” is being used by

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

Just became aware of an article from May interviewing experts to debunk lab scenarios for SARS-CoV-2 origins (it was cited in an Atlantic article published today). I'm going to work

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

New preprint. We estimate the transmissibility of #SARSCoV2 lineages based on their genomic makeup. Overall, transmissibility of #SARSCoV2 went up over time, but fitness of individual clades tends to decay

Jim Geraghty

jimgeraghty

Back on October 16, 2014, the U.S. National Institutes of Health instituted a “pause” on gain-of-function experiments with influenza, SARS, and MERS viruses, citing concerns about biosafety and biosecurity risks.https://bit.ly/3bZVqv6