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Open Ocean Exploration

RebeccaRHelm

Everyone's freaking out about how seastars are born, but if you think that's weird, let me tell you about HUMANS (hint: we're more similar than you think) [a thread]...https://twitter.com/RebeccaRHelm/status/1356610600743354371

Kelsey Fisher-Wellman, PhD

KFW_Lab

(1) Elegant work demonstrating a casual role for mitochondrial metabolism in tumorigenesis. Congrats to the authors! A few thoughts below Oxidative Metabolism Drives Immortalization of Neural Stem Cells during Tumorigenesishttps://www.cell.

FactsDontLie

FactsdontL

A resume on virusesFirstly, a bacterium is a single-celled 'germ'. However, a virus is not even classified as being a cell. It consists of a strand of RNA (ribo-nucleic acid

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

You’ve probably heard antibody levels can drop quickly, even to undetectable, within a few months of recovery from Covid. Does that mean people aren’t immune? Not necessarily- here’s a quickly

Isabella Cooper

I_mitochondria

Viruses always evolve to be more contagious if they can, while at the same time they evolve to being less virulent/pathogenic, especially respiratory viruses. In their evolution, each virus strives

Kevin Guttenplan

kevinguttenplan

(Tweeprint: 1/7)ALS is a devastating neurodegenerative disease, but nobody knows its cause. Since astrocytes make a lot of diseases worse when they become reactive, we asked what would happen if

Kevin McKernan 🙂

Kevin_McKernan

This is the Final nail in the coffin of the current qPCR testing strategy.We have to get smarter about what we are targeting and stop harassing asymptomatic people.Now, let’s imagine

Josh - Data Analyst in Nashville

ifihadastick

There is an incredibly stupid and and anti-science myth that is circulating around- that there is no immunity post-infection to Covid. Here's a few papers I've read and the summary

Johan Hellström 🇸🇪

jhnhellstrom

When you read about scientists suggesting things the new strain might do, you are really just seeing how an early step in the scientific process works and just wander through

Brendan Barnard

IntractableLion

Cultured meat is fake environmentalism for technohippies who despite their burningman aesthetic cannot make peace with death and violence as fundamental to their animal nature It is an abstraction layer

The Menachery Lab

TheMenacheryLab

Our study examining a furin-cleavage site deletion mutant in #COVID19 is now out @Nature With a short thread (cause who has time to read beyond twitter) (1/6https://go.nature.com/2MnGlfq First, thanks to

Gertrud Rey PhD (Trudy)

GertrudRey

Does a first infection with SARS-CoV-2 make a person immune to a second infection? This question is one of the prevailing issues in the current pandemic. A thread (also at

Ancestral Herbiary

blvck_herbalist

Today on patreon, we discussed Bacterial Vaginosis, Or vaginitis. The first thing we would have to understand is what BV is. BV is an overgrowth of bacteria in the vagina,

‎ 𐤒‎Rabitt ✌️🇺🇸

CuriousRabitt

Straight from the CDC websitePreparing for a zombie apocalypse https://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2011/05/preparedness-101-zombie-apocalypse/ On the CDC site, a brief history of zombies mentions the game Resident Evil Now this is the

Amy Wisdom

AmyWisdom8

Excited to share that our paper is out today in @NatureComms https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19917-0. A great collaboration from @DKirschMDPhD @YvonneMowery @DukeRadOnc @DukeCancer and @Barzin_@max_diehn @StanfordCancer examining

Claudia Fraser

ClaudiaFraser9

In honour of #InternationalDayOfWomenInScience I’ve decided to give a little insight into what my standard day as a radiochemist/cancer researcher studying for my DPhil in Oncology at @OxfordOncology...Ready? Let’s go!(Thread)

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