#Proteins

Marc Veldhoen

Marc_Veld

A lot of news regarding a SARS-CoV-2 mutation. This is an important, but not unexpected. SARS-CoV-2 is a single stranded RNA virus, it will mutate.But, this mutation is not one

Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

QEPrize

Hello everyone! I'm Esther Odekunle (@EstOdek) and today I'll be tweeting from @QEPrize to take you on a journey of what being an antibody engineer is all about. Hold on

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

Dr. Dave Stukus

AllergyKidsDoc

You all know DNA...that double helix thingy we learned about in school.But without cheating, do you remember what DNA actually does?DNA is simply a set of instructions - alternating sequences

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

I'm seeing this making the rounds this morning. I have issues with it, specifically two of the claims.1. It's never been shown whether re-positive patients are contagious or not. (It

DeepMind

DeepMind

Yesterday we shared the news that #AlphaFold has been recognised as a solution to the ‘protein folding problem’ by #CASP14, the biennial Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction. But what

Kenneth Macdonald

macdonke

Some other countries are not rushing to deploy a vaccine. UKG is having to because its test, trace and isolate system has been dismal so far. That said, vaccines are

Iso

IsoMedSTU2

Okay...A little thread on the Pathology of Alzheimer's disease (making this because I just got finished with my lecture on Alzheimer's).Your Central Nervous System (we'll be referring to it as

Ilya Levental

LeventalLab

Yea, it’s the end of the world… but we can still a cool paper with a gratuitously long TWEET-STORM!!Check out our new #lipidtime paper in @NatureChemBio:Plasma membranes are asymmetric in

AsapSCIENCE

AsapSCIENCE

HOW THE NEW COVID VACCINES AFFECT YOUR BODY (THREAD BELOW) or FULL VID HERE: https://youtu.be/the81FQoAUI This vid explains how mRNA works in your cells, without the vaccine: This is how the

Chico Camargo

evoluchico

Thread time!"Google DeepMind's AI will change everything you know about biology and protein structures". Fact or fiction? 2018: DeepMind's latest AI program, AlphaFold, beats everyone at a very niche competition:

Biotweeps

biotweeps

Good morning! Today I'll be talking about #MassSpectrometry and how scientists use this method to look examine changes to huge numbers of the #proteins in your #cells to identify how

Sari Rasheed

sarirasheed

شاركت شركة Moderna، مطورة لقاحات مقرها ماساتشوستس، مع المعاهد الوطنية للصحة لتطوير واختبار لقاح لفيروس #كورونا يُعرف باسم mRNA-1273.أظهرت

Victor Kang

Hexamour

Did you know limpets (marine snails) can withstand >80kg of force? Imagine doing pull-ups using limpets! Ever wondered how do they attach? If you said suction, you're in for a

Evan J. Zimmerman

ejzim

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.

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

We're going to hear more and more about various COVID mutations in the coming weeks and months. Their names, N501Y, D614G, etc. seem cryptic, and they are, but they are

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