#Genetics

Looking to read something inspirational and awesome over the holidays? The @NatResCancer editors have you covered with our new Milestones in Cancer research timeline! There’s something here for everyone! (1/n)https://go.nature.com/3n0h3RQ
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On Lawrence Krauss' assertion that science is not systematically racist - a thread1/nhttps://twitter.com/LKrauss1/status/1279201378108182528 1st: let us put aside the multiple serious accusations of sexual harassment and subsequent reti
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Why should his terrible record in the Clinton and Obama administrations hold him back from even more horrible takes?Summers arguably holds the top spot of those responsible for the 2008
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#Alphafold by #deepmind used solid interdisciplinary intuitions for algorithm/model design. It wasn't just a rinse-and-repeat machine learning exercise. Details on methods are limited, but here's my best interpretation (+some predic
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I have something positive to report. The students of @sen_jonaki and I use electroporators for gene delivery in chick and mouse embryos. Between the two laboratories we have three electroporators
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At Riverbank, Elizebeth struggled to find the codes that were supposedly in Shakespeare, but she did become interested in codes, how they were made, and how they were broken. Elizebeth
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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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As Donald Trump fades away, beware of the rise of "scientific fascism".We have race realists who hide racism in statistics.We have scientific fascists who attempt to use "science" as a
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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
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Nearly all white Americans who claim (based on oral family tradition) to be 1/8-ish injun generally identify with the Cherokees. Their self-proclaimed origin is in North Carolina, however there was
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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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THREADWe are hearing about "white supremacy," "white nationalism" and "racism." What are these? What do they mean? Am I a racist?Again, your boys Jules and Vincent on board to help
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1/8“We are not in lockdown because of the virus. We are in lockdown because in the last nine months the people of Britain have not bothered to download the official
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#GAevent - @DefraGovUK Chief Scientist says there can be significant environmental & animal welfare benefits from gene editing - climate resilience, less pesticide use etc. #GAevent - Liz O'Neill from
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Our values & behaviors are programmed at 3 different, but intersecting, levels (framework originally developed by Geert Hofstede):Human Nature (Universal & Inherited)Culture (Particular & Learned)Personality & Genetics (Indi
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1. This is the last thread I will have as curator for today. So there has been a lot of talk about COVID-19 and all of us have had to
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