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Petros Ligoxygakis
LigoxygakisLab
The evidence on the new SARS-CoV2 variant considered by NervTag was 1) growth rate from genomic data (increased growth rate); 2) studies of R-values and detection of the variant (suggested
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Martin Modrák
modrak_m
I've spent some time recently arguing the narrow point that "journal publishes only preregistered studies" is NOT a good measure of transparency. So let's also argue a broader point: that
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Michael Nielsen
michael_nielsen
I've been reading the wonderful book "Cell Biology by the Numbers" (http://book.bionumbers.org ). Here's a thread of striking things I learned from the book (or related reading) 1. In terms
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Leon Lin
Leonlinsx
"our culture is filled with a dystopian view [...] but what's lost are all these positive developments that don't get the same attention"@peteleyden gives 9 "inexorable" reasons to be optimistic
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Felix Lansing
felix_lansing
I’m happy to share my #PhD work on @biorxivpreprint. We used directed evolution to generate designer recombinases to correct a 140 kb genomic inversion causing Hemophilia A. 1/10https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.02.328013v1T
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Dr. Kiki Sanford
drkiki
Are there new strains of the COVID-19 virus being talked about? Yes.Before you get concerned, let's clear a couple of things up... Viruses are made of genetic material - DNA
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Alina Chan
Ayjchan
Get ready. This is going to be an important thread. Election season will be over soon and hopefully more people will devote some attention to this...I'm going to walk through
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Penny Daflos
PennyDaflos
COVID variants are a major concern for health officials right now -- not to mention the rest of us.I'm seeing a lot of ?s about how BC is testing for
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Lily Dear
Skeptical_Lily
Saviez-vous que vous ingérez une plus grande quantité d'ARNm à chaque repas à travers les aliments que vous mangez qu'il y a dans le vaccin Pfizer (30 μg per dose)
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Lina Leon
LinaMLion
If you need more anti-CRISPRs in your life, this is the paper for you! I worked on this study with a wonderful team: @AdairLBorges @jenzyy_97 @allysonparkk and @joeBondyDenomy. We discovered
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Siddhartha Mukherjee
DrSidMukherjee
1/n And no one is claiming that we’ve studied the vaccine for long enough; or that we know all the side effects. There may be side effects — some unknown.
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Jeffrey Barrett
jcbarret
Out today: two academic publications (not yet peer reviewed) that formally test whether the new B.1.1.7 variant is more transmissible. Both conclude yes, about 50% more. First, a pre-print
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Inquisitive Bird
Scientific_Bird
Are people with bigger brains smarter (on average)?Here I will summarize some of the biggest studies which test whether there is a correlation between intelligence and brain size (within modern
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The Professional
science_cited
Let's do a deep dive on coronavirus DNA vaccines. This long thread looks closely at DNA vaccines, and will specifically address their potential to edit the human genome. If you
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Dr. Eephusblue ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 🇵🇷
EephusBlue
When you dig down to how this mRNA vaccine actually works it's fucking dope. It's an achievement of science and amazing and mind-blowing Essentially it's a suspension with mRNA encoding
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Goncalo Abecasis
gabecasis
This paper was a longtime coming. In no particular order, some of the interesting things to learn from the sequencing and analysis of 53,831 human genomes. 1/nhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03205-yPDF: https://www.nature.com/art
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