#Genetic

JUST IN: Ancient DNA has been extracted from a 1.2 million-year-old mammoth — the oldest DNA that’s ever been recovered by a long way. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/worlds-oldest-dna-recovered-and-it-comes-from-a-12-mill
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Scientific racists are called racist because they claim "black" people as a separate biological type of humans who are inferior genetically.Whether they believe their "inferiors" deserve equal legal rights is
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A thread on vaccines:Most of us have been vaccinated quite a few times in our lives. As a young child I remember getting the Polio vaccine at “the dispensary” on
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About a year ago we shared this picture of 40yr old phage stocks and asked "what should we do with them?" Replies: 'check titre!' 'get WGS' and 'are they the
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New paper out in early view today @cjfas! We used otoliths and genetic stock ID to quantify the entry timing, residency, and early marine growth of juvenile Harrison Chinook salmon
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SMALL THREAD: I have seen concerns going round about the theoretical possibility that vaccine mRNA could end up altering our own genomes, and that could cause long term consequences. I
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I haven't read the book itself, but I took a brief look at Andrew Sullivan's review of The Cult of Smart, by Fredrik DeBoer (also touched on by Paige Harden
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Ppl born in 80s &90s are the last generation in the history f Mankind,that hv seen d transition frm almost no technology in daily lives to technology taking taking over
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This is an ableist take that blames people for their chronic illnesses and/or disabilities.1/?https://twitter.com/fitfounder/status/1355530287355195396 Also, people need to go see doctors in general. If people don’t have enough money to
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There is a lot of hubbub about RNA vaccines & I'm an RNA biologist RNA is the message made from DNA that tells our body what proteins the cell should
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It's storytime, folks. Let me tell you about some of the gender harassment I've had to deal with as a cis lesbian minding my own business.https://twitter.com/JuliaSerano/status/1352691516557283330 I went to college
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The Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) has a widespread distribution. From Ireland to Japan. But in Ireland and Britain is has been called a separate subspecies (S.v.leucourus) because of its
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In the light of various new homologous strains, in addition to the UK one, emerging globally, that may be evolved to escape the neutralising antibodies post vaccinations. It is in
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People often ask why structural variants (SV) are so important and why $BNGO is laser focused on revolutionizing the way they are detected in the clinic. Doesn’t the success of
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New Nature paper uses genetic evidence to argue that pre-1492 population of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico was **much** lower than previously thought—fewer than 80,000 people.Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-03053-2NY Times
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Beauty is all about being comfortable in your own skin.VITILIGO............................ A THREAD of beautiful people and what you should know. Vitiligo is a long-term skin condition characterized by patches of
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