#Sequencing

Richard Cole

RichardCole_NOW

I’m Richard Cole host of Amari Purple Talk. We’re concluding the #SOTTDeluxeEdition original album #PrinceTwitterThread with Adore, the closing song of the album and a ballad loved by many. Thanks

Houriiyah Tegally 🇲🇺

houzhou

Our report on the genomic characterisation of the first wave of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in South-Africa is now out in Nature Medicine, a study which was crucial to confidently describe

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

New paper showing very high household transmission of COVID-19 in US. I haven't seen detailed summary, so here's one. There's a ton here to think about. Kids, culture, COVID.Thread.https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6944e1

Philip Ball

philipcball

Meanwhile, in the rest of science... Amazingly, I seem to have written some articles that weren't about Covid this year; here are some of them. (A thread.) This was one

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

European countries have likely bought time by stopping/restricting UK flights to reduce 501Y.V1 (B.1.1.7) import. Vaccine rollouts are progressing, & spring is around the corner.But what do the next few

Bad Actor/Autistic Person

JoboGinger

Just in case people don't know how horrifying Autism Speaks is, I'm gonna do a little thread: A woman who held a leadership position in the organisation contemplated killing her

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Pandemic profiteer @thermofisher is trying to monopolize the shortcut fast PCR test for the B117 #SARSCoV2 variant—& arrogantly chest thumping. The truth? They found it by dumb luck & now

Matt Reynolds

mattsreynolds1

The UK variant may have evolved in just one person, infected with the Sars-CoV-2 virus for an unusually long time.So what does this mean for the pandemic, and stopping future

Dr Adam Rutherford

AdamRutherford

I'm seeing a lot of chat about PCR and COVID, some of it quite bonkers. So here’s a PCR 101. DNA is very small and therefore not easy to detect.

Willem van Schaik 💙

WvSchaik

Our latest paper ‘Microbiota analysis of rural and urban surface waters and sediments in Bangladesh identifies human waste as driver of antibiotic resistance’ is now on @biorxivpreprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.0

Albert Vilella

AlbertVilella

A more polished thread on #epigenomic #biomarkers for #LiquidBiopsy and #CancerScreening: Epigenomic biomarkers are becoming more established for #LiquidBiopsy and #CancerScreening, and we have seen the big players positioning themselves

Phil Syrpis

syrpis

For the benefit of Bernard Jenkin and others - a recap. This thread is on the Withdrawal Agreement (WA), and its relationship with any future relationship deal the UK and

ChristosArgyropoulos

ChristosArgyrop

Since we have two RNA vaccines against SARSCOV2 now, perhaps you should unfollow covidiots , libertarian flubros , Hoover institute faculty, GBD acolytes and every single individual who have suggested

Deepta Bhattacharya

deeptabhattacha

In this piece by @rddysum, I am on record (again) stating that the vaccines will substantially reduce overall infections. I know some of my immunology colleagues think I am being

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

COVID Update: What we’re still doing wrong that must be fixed.And I think people who care need to see this. And I will explain this graph. 1/ We have vaccinated

🇨🇦 Bill Comeau Crush the Curve 📉

Billius27

on the Toronto area SGTF (S-Gene Target Failure) study to detect B117 (UK variant). It looked at 11,485 positive tests over Dec 16 to Feb 3 and found 448 had

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