#Sequencing

1/ Since it itis the season of takes, home sickness, and unsolicited advice to the Biden administration, I felt the need to write about what can be learned from
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Happy to announce that our new paper that developed colorful system to understand immune evasion by transmissible cancers has been published in @ScienceAdvances https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/27/eaba5031Here’s the story behind
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The Tide is Turning, MY Friends!1/x Essential ReadingBotao Xiao & Lei Xiao“Possible origins of 2091-nCoV coronavirus,”https://img-prod.tgcom24.mediaset.it/images/2020/02/16/114720192-5eb8307f-017c-4075-a697-348628da0204.pdf.Coronavi
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COVAXIN Efficacy: A thread...n0 Q1: Is there a method to hypothesise the efficacy of COVAXIN when no data has been released?Q2: How is this efficacy enhanced & measured? Q3: Why
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OMG! After 4 years, Friday was my last day working on @OMGenomes at @ourANU. I’ve been lucky to do some amazing mammaly museumy geneticy things, hang out with great people,
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As someone who did many RT-PCRs, the most widely-used method of detection for SARS-CoV-2 virus (the cause of Covid-19), during my PhD, here are my thoughts on why questioning the
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That website opinion attack piece on the Corman/Drosten RT-rPCR tests has a few confused & sometimes very wrong comments. I'll preface this thread with a *presumption* I'm making - these
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For reference, here is the recent report alleging a potentially artificial origin for SARS-CoV-2, from virologist Li-Meng Yan.https://zenodo.org/record/4028830#.X1_G1mhKg2zhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Meng_YanYan recently fled Hong Kong
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Masks Masquerading as ScienceTM.I spent a good part of my career engineering emulsion PCR and Nebulization equipment for DNA and RNA shearing. I have a very different view on this
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A common trope in VC is to ask whether the most important thing is the product, market, or team.@pmarca @eladgil @arachleff agree:Markets are most importantBut how to evaluate and pick
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1/ THREAD: New Autopsy Series (NYC/@uiowa) in @NEJM Microvascular Injury in the Brains of Patients with #COVID19 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2033369#.X-z9hxRCh2s.twitterN = 19Interesting observations from the paper, but I fou
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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
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1/ A few quotes from a recent important article, in translation.https://archive.org/details/new-3-d-images-of-claimed-sars-co-v-2-does-not-prove-a-virus'Everyone seemed to be so impressed by this fact that no one even thought of checkin
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The neo-Malthusian globalists believe that the Chinese governmental system is superior to democracy with its centralised power and top down control of its population. Gates along with Soros & the
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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
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1/n It is vital we get objective analyses of the SARS-CoV2 origin to prevent future outbreaks and recurrence. This long thread details what I’ve learned, hoping to encourage those with
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