#Immunology

WheatNOil

WheatNOil

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

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

Some COVID thoughts on this bright, beautiful Christmas Eve morning in London. Context: I am an expert in genetics and computational biology; I know and chit-chat with experts in viral

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Blair is urging world govts to massively increase testing both in scale & frequency everyone & often. This is preposterous. Those with a good knowledge of immunology know with a

Andrew💙Croxford

andrew_croxford

NEW THREAD: «Recent endemic coronavirus infection is associated with less severe COVID-19» The thrust of the paper is that if you had previous exposure to endemic coronaviruses (eCoV) and catch

Deepta Bhattacharya

deeptabhattacha

I received this email from someone last week that I can't stop thinking about. I probably received this since I have been openly optimistic about vaccine efforts. So I wanted

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

COVID in Europe - my perspective this bright, sunny day in London. As ever, the main group I feel I am talking to here are journalists, who have to write

Anıl

ncholiA

1/ All eyes are on England because of the #B117 variant (501Y.V1/VOC202012/01).But WHY could the variant #B1351 (501Y.V2) detected in South Africa pose a bigger danger?To better understand this, let's

WheatNOil

WheatNOil

Your cells see these instructions and say “sure, I’ll make this”. So your cells make a bunch of the asshole protein.You immune system sees this new protein you’re producing and

Ed Yong

edyong209

Here are 10 pandemic pieces that I'm especially proud of. 1) On how it came to this.https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/ 2) This one from March--the first of the really big pieces, ab

Ian Birrell

ianbirrell

The @WHO investigation into Sars-CoV-2 claims to have conducted systematic & comprehensive research in its Wuhan probe into the pandemic origins. Note how it is a joint study to appease

Joe Murgia

UfoJoe11

1 Important thread. For those thinking this is all hype? @mintyhyperspace is one of the most solid people in our field. Follow him on Twitter & Medium. https://medium.com/@sean.cahill I've never seen

Fiora Esoterica

fioraesoterica

You probably know of a few vitamins. But maybe not this massive boy: Vitamin B12. It's the coolest vitamin, and has a fascinating history.B12 is an absolutely bizarre vitamin. Yes,

Steve Brule

braidedmanga

I really don't know if @MichaelYeadon3 has the capacity to cull his tweets. Either way, here's all his nonsense.Let's start with Herd Immunity, approaching since May.https://twitter.com/braidedmanga/status/1351842978407587840 &q

WheatNOil

WheatNOil

The vaccine contains no actual part of the virus. It has only the instructions on how to make the asshole protein. So, you can’t get infected with COVID from the

Deepta Bhattacharya

deeptabhattacha

Kept meaning to do this thread on the duration of vaccine immunity, but got paralyzed b/c of length. So instead I'll break it up into 3 pieces, becoming increasingly geekier

🙂Sanjeev Sabhlok, Pope @Church of Reason& Liberty

sabhlok

#GreatCrime2020Te fact that vaccine companies are simply taking advantage of the hysteria and did not precipitate it - which was purely an act of China - absolves them of the

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