#Genomes

Houriiyah Tegally 🇲🇺

houzhou

Our report on the genomic characterisation of the first wave of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in South-Africa is now out in Nature Medicine, a study which was crucial to confidently describe

Antonio Regalado

antonioregalado

The George Church selfie of him taking a DIY coronavirus vaccine. This picture is a classic This is the thread to go with it. Today @techreview reported on an independent

Albert Vilella

AlbertVilella

A more polished thread on #epigenomic #biomarkers for #LiquidBiopsy and #CancerScreening: Epigenomic biomarkers are becoming more established for #LiquidBiopsy and #CancerScreening, and we have seen the big players positioning themselves

Lauring Lab

LauringLab

It's been great getting to know Gage and Kat through our project together with @dho @tcfriedrich labs. Lost in the "US isn't sequencing enough" articles (which I agree with) are

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

There is a paper out reporting high prevalence of #SARSCoV2 antibodies (IgG/IgM) in Italy from early September on. Factoring in a 1-2 week needed for seroconversion, this would imply that

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

I've been getting many questions about pre-Wuhan covid cases detected around the world. In particular, 2 studies: Barcelona (March 2019) and Italy (Sep 2019); as well as the widely disseminated

Kevin McKernan 🙂

Kevin_McKernan

Let's walk through the much more complicated problem of identifying pathogens on Cannabis flower. These are inhaled products in an industry that just experienced EVALI.This will provide a few examples

Jussi Paananen

datadriveby

As a part of the discussion of sequencing of different #Covid19 strains, I've been asked by many, what the sequencing capacity of Finnish universities would be (and if they should

M.P.

OmanReagan

“You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage.” —Ripley In a way, the real xenothreat in

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

So, I've been relatively hopeful about the pandemic over the past few weeks. Yes, vaccination is slow, new variants are worrisome, but we are headed in the right direction. BUT...1/

Razib 🥥 Khan

razibkhan

a higher and higher % of DMs, emails, etc. to me are from indians asking about their genetics. since there are 700 million indians on the internet. makes sensei'll be

Tacit Subtext

TSubtext

“Are either/both more transmissible? I don't think we know for sure yet, but scientists in the UK seem to believe there are indicators of increased transmission in that variant. We

Antonio Regalado

antonioregalado

Trump Administration just put out executive order moving regulation of GMO and CRISPR animals from FDA to USDA.A wish list item of the pork industry among others. USDA is softer

Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦇🐋🐢🐍

DevoEvoMed

Behold! Our latest @biorxivpreprint #preprint in which we explore if duplication of #TumorSuppressors helped #elephantscrush their risk of #cancer as they evolved large body sizes #PetosParadox #EvMed #EleFunFactFriday #TheMoreYouKnow https

MC Gambetta

mc_gambetta

*Is CTCF a master weaver of all genomes containing CTCF?**What is the molecular basis of gene insulation by CTCF?*CTCF is required to form only ~10% of all contact domain boundaries

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

People's intuition about how "human genetics" works (how DNA variation is distributed around people around the world) and how it relates to "ethnicity" (the boxes people tick when asked to

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