#Genomes

Unlike most other animals, humans cannot convert uric acid into a more soluble compound.Precipitated uric acid can cause a host of problems like gout and kidney stones.What happened to our
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A thread on $PSNL 1/ n What does $PSNL do?- Provide genomic sequencing and analytics (ML) platforms to enable precision medicine (i.e., personalized cancer vaccines and immunotherapies)- Analytics unlock
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After many years and a real journey, we are excited to share our preprint on mutations in human cells!We studied multiple samples from the same individuals to explore mutational landscapes
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Super content d'être vacciné J'ai eu le vaccin d'Astrazeneca. Merci l'IGREn effets indésirables, j'ai juste eu un peu de fatigue, un léger mal de tête le 1er jour mais pas
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Super excited to share a preprint (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.30.405282v1) for one of the lab’s long term, ambitious projects - doing effective, genome-scale, sexual genetics in E. coli. This is making F1 hybrids
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Mutation “feat never seen before”...UPDATE on UK strain of #SARSCoV2 & how it evolved so fast:Variant B.1.1.7 (aka VUI-202012-01) has 23 mutations—but acquired suddenly 17 mutations “all at once”—which
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-20911-3Excited to finally share our new article featuring some of the main findings from my PhD thesis about de novo gene birth in baker’s yeast. It was just published today
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I've been seeing a lot of people saying the Moderna and Pfizer mRNA vaccines were made in 2 days, and that it will be amazing and perfect for all diseases.
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Deep breath, my views on the SARS CoV2 Mutation story in London/South East. It's a fast moving story (at least for phylogeography); I'm a one step-away from experts, aiming here
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A note for I think journalists about the "377 deaths under 60" being the cost for COVID for the UK. This a bonkers positioning statement and is definitely not something
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COVID Q1. “I’m concerned the vaccines aren’t safe because they were rushed!” This is a pretty reasonable concern. I mean, if they cut corners, then how can we really know
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Pandemic rages. Meanwhile scientists are fighting about what open data sharing means and whether you can publish analysis using someone's data if part of their dataset has not yet been
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With emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2 and initial evidence of antigenic evolution, I've seen comparisons here to seasonal influenza and its rate of evolution. In this thread, I want to ground
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1) I guess you can’t push a vaccine on something that already has one, nor control the test, and in turn the hysteria. Early on, I stated that these used
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OK Koch heads... bring your hurt.I’m glad you folks exist as we need people questioning everything.However, I have found the “virus doesn’t exist” arguments unconvincing. The virus isn’t the only
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Hi Science Twitter!A big shout out to my two fantastic colleagues Young Mi and Kevin, who have just released what is likely the largest tumour phylogeny built to date: the
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