#Biology

KenOliveLab

KenOliveLab

COVID Q1. “I’m concerned the vaccines aren’t safe because they were rushed!” This is a pretty reasonable concern. I mean, if they cut corners, then how can we really know

Patrick🕸

STILLTish

Document co-authored by Stephen Whittle. Trans Inclusive Policy. On Gender Reassignment Surgery. A Cinderella service. A bit like being a car mechanic. “ we do the mechanics and they leave

John McCutcheon

mcsymbiont

!!RNA nerd thread!! This amazingly cool paper was published in the last few (amazingly chaotic) days, showing that a small RNA produced by a symbiotic bacterium dramatically affects the biology

Rob Henderson

robkhenderson

Parents have asked how I got into Yale and Cambridge. They want the secret sauce for their own kids.What worked for me (paraphrasing Bruce Lee, take what works for you

Ben Strak

ben_strak

It's time for part 2 of my mega design quote thread!Read on for 20 more quotes about design. This time with pictures...THREAD 1/20(Previous thread included below in case you missed

Christoforos Nikolaou

guilderstern

Just logged in to a (5-hour!!!) webinar aimed to help in "outreach to funders and policy-makers". Obviously *not* my thing but was advised to join. Follow this thread for a

Lumos SK

SkLumos

Ok fine so I watched that video by @jammi_dodger94. It has a couple of issues and some wrong statements. So I'll give my thoughts on ithttps://youtu.be/6Avcp-e4bOs First of all they

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

“We need to talk about PCR”. What, again?? Yes, again. There’s no question whatsoever that, as configured & used, PCR mass testing “over-reads” by a considerable margin. This is because

Jamie Jones

juemos

New paper out today with @MikePricePhD on how biological entities, who have been shaped by natural selection, should make decisions when the payoffs to those decisions are variable and have

Dr Julie Blommaert 👩🏼‍🔬

drjulie_b

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidencehttps://twitter.com/JakobssonLab/status/1338415484757225473 Since sequencing is actually my area of expertise, I may humbly chime in here (among many others) and break down the claims of th

Matt Hall

cispt2

So here's an update on the abandoned UQ COVID vaccine named UQ-CSL v451https://www.uq.edu.au/news/node/127942 First, the release states that the vaccine worked: vaccine elicited a response and "There were no serious

Dr. Petra Levin

PetraLevin

Starving E. coli, serendipitous discoveries, and awesome collaborators: a long thread on some of our latest work with @handuo_s and KC Huang @StanfordBioE 1/19https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.06.413849v2 To help understand t

Denis Nash

epi_dude

1. The pre-print (not yet peer reviewed) of recent results from our national, community-based CHASING COVID Cohort study of SARS-CoV-2 is out (http://bit.ly/3arAvmB ). We looked potential risk factors for SARS-CoV-2

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

A reminder: Ethnicity is something you tick on form with a series of boxes ("White, British", "Afro-Caribbean", "British Asian", "African-American", "Deutsch-Türken"). Genetics and genomics

Bernard Lane

Bernard_Lane

Canada's Bill C-6 would criminalise "conversion therapy". This is part of an international project pitched as an urgent rescue of "LGBTQ people" from right-wing religious bigots bent on forcibly changing

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angelamavalla

Should we speak on the link between sugar and acne?Where are all my biology nerds at? Let’s go!!The main link between sugar and acne is a hormone produced

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