#Genomic

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

WORRISOME—Key things on new VUI-202012/01 #SARSCoV2 mutation:—Likely more infectious, possibly up to 70% faster transmission.—R0 increase of ~ +0.4—23 unique changes, many in spike protein.—Comprises 62% of recent London

Elliot Haspel

ehaspel

THREAD: I want to talk for a minute about stories like these. Let's start here: Any death is awful. My heart breaks for these families & school communities.The problem: Articles

Declan O'Regan

DrDeclanORegan

Leonardo da Vinci first described a complex network of muscle fibres inside the heart and today in @nature we report on why they are important to health and disease. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2635-8

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

Eli Van Allen

VanAllenLab

Interested to see how the forthcoming data behind the ‘TMB > 10 in all cancer types’ approval addresses a few key issues, having spent a long time thinking about this

Gavan Reilly

gavreilly

#COVID19ireland: 1620 cases; 12 deathsPrevious Thursdays:24/12: 92217/12: 48410/12: 31003/12: 18326/11: 3355-day average: 1278.67-day average: 1244.9(Previous 7 days: 775.7)14-day cases/100k: 296.7(7 days ago: 166.0)In hospital: 490In ICU:

Florian Krammer

florian_krammer

1) So, this morning I promised a little tweetorial about variants and here we go. This will be from a vaccine/antibody point of view only, I won't comment on how

Eden Gillespie

edengillespie

NSW’s presser will start in 15 mins. Like always, I’ll be live-tweeting here #BREAKING: NSW records EIGHT new local cases of COVID-19 from 18, 923 tests. #COVID19nsw Of the

Claudia L Kleinman

ClaudiaKleinman

Latest work from the lab!Identity matters: Lethal high-grade glioma arises from misregulation of interneuron differentiationBig team effort with Nada Jabado, puzzle solved by @CarolCLChen @ShriyaDeshmukh3 @selinjessa @DjidjiJdaJdahA thread

Pierre-Eric Lutz

PE_Lutz

One of my last post-doc projects is finally out! This was quite a journey, with many collaborators & institutions involved, and a lot of sequencing (>150 libraries, > 12 billion

An Leavy

an_leavy

NSW Update Questions?Sydney host cricketToo early to make pronouncements This strain is a challenge but variations to a virus not unusual-it is what happens Sometimes increases risk and sometimes decrease

Stefan Marciniak

Prof_Marciniak

The new “Kent” strain of SARS-CoV-2 (officially named VUI 202012/01 for Variant Under Investigation, year 2020, month 12, variant 01) was identified as have multiple spike protein mutations1/n These include

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

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

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

Sara Danner Dukic

saradannerdukic

Anyone with children in schools, please read this (thread below):https://www.wsj.com/articles/super-bowl-nfl-covid-cdc-11612104460 Let’s start with the sub head: “The coronavirus gospel of ‘within six feet for more than 15 minutes’

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

This is all our future if we don’t stop the #B117 variant worldwide. I cannot stress enough —#B117 is here and can spawn a new fresh pandemic wave in April

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