#Molecular

Inspired by #BlackHistoryMonth , we’re doing something a little diff for group meeting today! Everyone is presenting their favorite #BlackScientist based on accomplishments in OR out of the lab. Thought we’d share the first few
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Benford's Law and election fraud (a thread)1) What is Benford's Law? It's an observation that 1st (left-most) digits of values in many real data sets of counts will fall close
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Here are 3 #COVID19 questions we're trying to answer:1. Why do monoclonal antibodies fail hospitalized patients? Cocktails made by Eli Lilly & Regeneron may be useful for high-risk outpatients, but
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Dolores Cahill’s lack of credibility as a researcher / academic is shown by her response to the news that trial participants who got the now cancelled coronavirus vaccine, developed by
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#Thread on science behind the jyotirlinga. Jyoti means 'radiance' or ‘light’ & lingam means ‘Sign' of Shiva; Jyotir Lingam thus means the Radiant Sign of Shiva or you can say
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Oh medtwitter I have found one of my coolest evolutionary facts ever! I was looking at evolution of innate immune system. It's very old, below vertebrates. We didn't get adaptive
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Let's hear from 21 amazing women in #biology, starting with a grande dame of #popgen Tomoko Ohta https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(12)00707-5 #WomenInScience #WomenInScienceDay organelle biologist Maya Schuldinerh
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The polyomavirus SIMIAN VIRUS 40 (SV40) is a known oncogenic DNA virus which induces primary brain and bone cancers, malignant mesothelioma, and lymphomas in laboratory animals.A thread on induced illness,
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ARECIBO OBSERVATORY APPRECIATION THREAD LET'S GO 1/ The Arecibo telescope is the world’s third-largest radio telescope, at 307 m (1,007 ft) wide. Unlike the fully-steerable GBT, its dish is
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A thread about hydration, #ADHD and ducks*.A lot of you are saying "But April, water is boring! It's so hard to remember boring stuff"Strap in kids... * no ducks, sorry.1/
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Our next talk at #IEPA12 is by @golam_khandaker from @psychiatry_ucam who will be discussing the immune system as a potential target for treatment and prevention of serious mental illness and
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"As gene-based mRNA vaccines from Moderna are being designed & tested at warp speeds to fight Covid-19, this is bringing the debate over transhumanism into the forefront. Transhumanism is aimed at transforming the
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Who are siddhars of TN.....?The Incredible Powers of the Ancient SiddharsSiddhars are a type of saint in India who are said to have had many powers and achieved a ‘god-like’
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1/ There's a fascinating story of a normal guy named Allen Hemberger who became obsessed with the Alinea cookbook. He spent 5 years re-creating all 107 recipes. There's an extremely
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IT'S ASTROTIMEStellar NurseriesThat is the name for regions of space filled with gas and dust and bright young stars! Active star formation is truly a thing of beauty just
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A new large multi-center cross-sectional study found treatment with high-dose vitamin D (either weekly or daily) was associated with reduced COVID-19 mortality. Multi-dose clinical trials need to be carried out
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