#Genome

The new “Kent” strain of SARS-CoV-2 (officially named VUI 202012/01 for Variant Under Investigation, year 2020, month 12, variant 01) was identified as have multiple spike protein mutations1/n These include
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In 2020 with @DrOlaLandgren we revealed how Melphalan has strong mutagenic activity on myeloma cells. This can understandably create fear for patients who have undergone transplant, and we have received
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1/X https://rdcu.be/b992F  We are very excited about our study appearing today in @NatureMedicine. It is a genotype-phenotype study in the largest sample of individuals with #22q11.2 deletion syndrome reported to
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Parmi les questions fréquentes, comment se fait-il que ce #vaccin contre le #SARSCoV2 soit arrivé si vite et cela signifie-t-il qu'il est moins sûr? Un fil là-dessus 1/ Raison 1:
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A few weeks ago, I heard scattered rumors about bizarre positives coming out of coronavirus testing programs at universities.It didn't seem to be the coronavirus. It also wasn't contamination in
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1/14 Excited to share our work on experimental evolution of pneumococcus in mouse infection models. The result of a big effort from the whole lab, but led by @GreenAngharad and
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!!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
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excited the @ChowLab's newest paper! Another installment in trying to understand NGLY1 deficiency #NGLY1 #RareDisease #openaccess Before I get into the paper, I'm really proud of the team effort to
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1) Drosten PCR test study: Withdrawal requested due to scientific error and massive conflict of interestNovember 30, 2020 Original German article https://2020news.de/drosten-pcr-test-studie-rueckzugsantrag-gestellt-wegen-wissenschaftliche-f
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1/9 Lateral reading, what's it all about? A bunch of people have asked for resources. A lot of stuff has been scattered across the Web. So here it is in
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I just wanted to take a moment to highlight the key results and story behind the science of a recent collaborative study out of my lab that was published this
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Today we announced our flagship project- a $60k challenge to predict the designer of genetically engineered sequences.Biologists, statisticians, deep learning folk- we need your skillz!!So what the heck is attribution,
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Pandemic rages. Meanwhile scientists are fighting about what open data sharing means and whether you can publish analysis using someone's data if part of their dataset has not yet been
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1) I guess you can’t push a vaccine on something that already has one, nor control the test, and in turn the hysteria. Early on, I stated that these used
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The mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) are kind of brilliant at a science level. I’ve had a few people in my real non-Twitter life ask me to explain how it
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Why is racist science still being promoted? Pasifika people know our history & where we come from. When “flashy” science ignores millennia of knowledge-keeping & evidence in favor of racist
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