#Genomic

Sui-Lee Wee 黄瑞黎

suilee

I took a break from coronavirus reporting to look at how China is collecting blood samples from men and boys to build a nationwide male DNA database. An American company,

John Greally

greally

Can Ireland's clinical genetics services crisis be turned into an opportunity? It's possible, and might be the best way of investing Irish health care €€Just bumping up the number of

Roland Williams 🇿🇦 #rwpoetry

Roland_Williams

I received this via WhatsApp. Not sure who to accredit it to, but it makes for an interesting read. And it makes sense.(I’ve edited where necessary.)THREAD1. SA & UK are

Ashleigh Tuite

AshTuite

Here’s the thing that continues to baffle me with our `wait and see’ approach to more transmissible VOCs in Ontario. All of the things we need to do are things

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

This is a must-read article by @mlipsitch and @kesvelt and I strongly agree with the central points: we urgently need to step up genomic surveillance & get transmission down now

Dr. Darien Sutton

DoctorDarienMD

After watching today’s press conference some points I’ve gathered. 1. These new variants are not the first and they certainly won’t be the last - preventing transmission and opportunity for

Emily Humble

emilyhumble

Our phylogenomics study of manta and devil rays is out now in @molecology.This was a big collaboration & many years of work.See below for more.https://bit.ly/2Ua8EyC #ConGen #manta @EdinburghUni @roslininstitute @MantaTrust

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

Given the large discrepancy in specimens collected in Dec that were sequenced and shared between the US and the UK, I wanted to follow up on the relative quality of

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

As might have been expected the UK is reintroducing more intense restrictions over the Christmas period. This may be tied to the 'new variant' common in the SE of the

Aris Katzourakis 💙 (for UCU NEC)

ArisKatzourakis

SMALL THREAD: I have seen concerns going round about the theoretical possibility that vaccine mRNA could end up altering our own genomes, and that could cause long term consequences. I

GVJ Invest

JavagaInvest

Global health expenditure is rising dramatically and is expected to reach 10 trill. USD by 2022. Here is a thread on the major issues of the current healthcare industry and

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Situation with new #sarscov2 variants is becoming harder to follow (and not just because of the names), so let me try and give a brief overview: Where are we at?

Prof. Akiko Iwasaki

VirusesImmunity

Inspired by this tweet by @TheMenacheryLab, I reached out to the wonderful colleagues at the @serimmune to see if the other mutations found in the B.1.1.7 variant would evade antibody

Jose-Luis Jimenez

jljcolorado

1/ Science: extensive genomic analyses in Boston show the importance of superspreading"More than 120 introductions of SARS-CoV-2 into Boston, only a few responsible for most local transmission: 29% of intros

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

After ~10 months of relative quiescence we've started to see some striking evolution of SARS-CoV-2 with a repeated evolutionary pattern in the SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern emerging from the UK,

Dr Helen MacLean

DrHMacLean

Media still don’t get difference b/w 14 day quarantine & isolation. 14 days is for those w/ 1st test -ve & is covid incubation period so must stay 2 wks

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