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Tony Zador
TonyZador
We touched on a lot of interesting subjects at the great Salon yesterday But i would like to dig into one where i think we failed to communicate: what it
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Andrew Rambaut 🦠🧬🌲🔮🤦‍♂️
arambaut
There is a lot of discussion at the moment about naming SARS-CoV-2 variants and coming up with a standardised naming system. There was some discussion of this last week at
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Stephen Griffin
SGriffin_Lab
My Ovine friend is correct, naturally...reverse the Q, is there an example of a virus losing virulence aside from the of myxoma in ? Not that I'm aware of,
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
BREAKING—Tracing WH #COVID19: WH blocked tracing but 2 journalists donated samples to epidemiologists. “These mutations [in] these viruses are quite rare in US,” Bedford said. “I am highly convinced that
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Kai Kupferschmidt
kakape
"The number of reported cases of #COVID19 globally has now declined for the fifth consecutive week”, says @drtedros at @WHO presser. "The number of weekly reported cases has fallen by
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Theo Sanderson
theosanderson
1/ We have two sources of information about the spread of the new variant. The most reliable is genomics data, but this has a lag period, and most samples can't
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Jeremy J Barr
JeremyJBarr
About a year ago we shared this picture of 40yr old phage stocks and asked "what should we do with them?" Replies: 'check titre!' 'get WGS' and 'are they the
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Louis du Plessis
laduplessis
After many months of hard work our analysis of the lineage structure and importation dynamics of the first wave of the #SARSCoV2 epidemic in the UK is out in @ScienceMagazine
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Carl T. Bergstrom
CT_Bergstrom
Unfortunately, this is not good reporting from NPR.It takes an extraordinary claim — that SARS-CoV-2 was circulating widely in the US in December 2019 and January 2020 — and presents
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Dr Julie Blommaert 👩🏼‍🔬
drjulie_b
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidencehttps://twitter.com/JakobssonLab/status/1338415484757225473 Since sequencing is actually my area of expertise, I may humbly chime in here (among many others) and break down the claims of th
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National Geographic
NatGeo
Join @MoNscience for our next #COVID19 Q&A today at 1pm ET. Leave your questions below and stay tuned for answershttps://on.natgeo.com/3iWDXYX That’s an interesting question—and one that’s created some public confusion.As
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Quadram Institute
TheQuadram
The Quadram Institute in #Norwich is one of 19 UK labs sequencing #coronavirus genomes. As the #RuleOfSix comes into force on Monday, the world-leading work taking place here could help
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Dr. Angela Rasmussen
angie_rasmussen
Infectious dose is a possible explanation but I don’t think it’s a very likely one, for a couple reasons. The most important being that identical twins are not genetically identical!https://twitter.com/drzoehyde/status/13431181490722447
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David Hamilton
davidghamilton1
Tasmanian devil news! A new study by @AustinHPatton in @ScienceMagazine (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6522/eabb9772) investigates the genetic makeup of devil facial tumour disease through time, finding that it has shifted from
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Catherine Shaffer
cathshaffer
1/It looks like the “leaked from a lab” conspiracy theory is lighting up again, so I’m going to go over a bit of what we know about the origins of
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD
PeterHotez
THREAD 1/5: I know this is not very nice just a couple of days before Christmas but I have to say I'm concerned about the CDC press release today, and
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