#Mutation

vedran sekara

vedransekara

#COVID thoughtsIn the "west" we're really worried about the current UK strain and fear any new mutation. Our newspapers write tons of articles about mutations no matter how insignificant. Epidemiologists

Dylan Morris

dylanhmorris

Quick thread on evolution, mostly so I can refer to it from elsewhere. Adaptive evolution by natural selection requires two fundamental materials: diversity and selection pressure First, let's define some

Kevin Goodier

TheGreenJohnny

Hi. If you don’t know me, my name is Kevin. Along with my wife Erin, we’ve decided now is the time to share the story of our 5 year old

Scott Frazier

safrazie

Finally getting caught up on the superb lolita podcast. One of the things I find I am thinking about differently is the winky tag line to the Kubrick movie "How

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declamare

the decision by @GavinWilliamson to force schools in London to re-open last week is now looking unbelievably stupid it’s one week since Gavin Williamson ordered schools in what are now

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,

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—Good & bad news—The Moderna #COVID19 vaccine fully protected against the UK #B117 variant... but was 6x less efficient at neutralizing the South African #B1351 variant in lab test.

Lawrence H. Summers

LHSummers

I retold the story of Reagan and Gorbachev and their private walk around Lake Geneva in 1985. As the story is told, Reagan asks Gorbachev if he would come to

Thibault Fiolet 🇪🇺

T_Fiolet

Questions/réponses sur le variant de COVID-19 au Il a été nommé VUI-202012/01 ("variant under investigation" en décembre 2020) et est défini par un ensemble de 17 changements ou mutations.

Hilda Bastian, PhD

hildabast

Preprint of the South African phase 1b/2 trial for the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is online. Primary efficacy analysis is for 2,026 people who weren't infected with HIV (there was also a

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?

Shematologist, MD

acweyand

Time for another heme #tweetorial Let’s talk about Racism in medicine. Sadly, sickle cell disease (SCD) highlights this issue all too well. 1/n SCD encompasses a group of diseases characterized

Emily Voorde

shortyvoorde

thread alert! indulge me. 30 years ago today, following tooth-and-nail insistence, the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed. less than 2 years later, a random genetic mutation would place me

Dr. Literature_Lady 💌📚📜🎙

Literature_Lady

Be careful of fear-mongering headlines. Folks who study RNA viruses are not surprised that it mutated, because that is what they do. But you shouldn't panic. It doesn't mean our

lina

ntmalefoy

Bon je vois que vous êtes tous en panique face au virus, et ça installe une psychose malsaine donc remettons un peu les choses à leur place https://twitter.com/quitteriie/status/1220791991296057344 Je vous

Premmy

DatPremmy

This is really the only argument you need but fine I’ll make a real onehttps://twitter.com/datpremmy/status/1354169458282127361 Why you should #VoteMarrow, threadLet’s start with the opening question “What does it mean to

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