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Neil Clancy

ClancyNeil

#Mycology thread on our new Microbial Genomics paper on WGS of clinical & environmental #Mucorales after #mucormycosis cluster in #transplant pts. 72 isolates from 72 isolates from med center &

Eugene Gu, MD

eugenegu

I’ve warned about this many times, but it always fell on deaf ears as everyone likes rushing things through clinical trials and doing emergency authorizations at warp speed. Convalescent plasma

The Beerologist at ExtrAnalytics 🍺🍻🍺🍻

collection_beer

Did you know that many yeasts used in #brewing #beer, are hybrids and infertile? They don't seem able to mate and sexually reproduce. For brewers this means that yeast genetic

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tehninini

Abruptly woke up, but decided to watch the briefing from Dr. Fauci on the state of the pandemic from global and national perspective. As someone who can understand the scientific

Ezra Klein

ezraklein

This is the part of the horror film where safety seems in sight, but it is obvious, to those paying attention, that the monster is not dead, and that the

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

Jeff Stein

JStein_WaPo

After election, US faces “dark winter”:— Enormous unemployment programs 4 millions to expire— Protections 4 renters, student borrowers end— ACA at Supreme Court— Gov shutdown Dec 11— 40% restaurants, 66%

Eric Topol

EricTopol

Why it is time (never too late) to get super-serious1. Holiday surge after holiday surge is small potatoes compared with a superspreader strain. B.1.1.7 is here,

Robert Peston

Peston

The government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (or Nervtag) has concluded that the new Covid-19 strain may be a bit more lethal than the existing strain. I've

Chief Health Officer, Victoria

VictorianCHO

Lots of confusion about quarantine vs isolation. Quarantine = the period when you may be incubating illness or the period following exposure before you may develop illness. This period applies

Dr Sumaiya Shaikh

Neurophysik

In the light of various new homologous strains, in addition to the UK one, emerging globally, that may be evolved to escape the neutralising antibodies post vaccinations. It is in

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Important: on the resurgence of SARS-CoV-2 in a place where herd immunity was already attained.The authors lay out 4 reasons:1) didn’t actually attain herd immunity2) waning immunity3) new strains evading

Peter Tennant

PWGTennant

Every new strain that establishes itself in the population will initially appear to have a higher transmissability. If one of those gets lucky (by appearing in a capital city, under

Jeremy Farrar

JeremyFarrar

Until we are all safe, no one is safe. Covid is a global problem ⁦@RobinMcKie⁩https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/31/jeremy-farrar-until-we-are-all-safe-no-one-is-safe-covid-is-a-global-problem It is reasonable & understandab

Julia🌳🌲

JuliasTrees

Happy #TerpeneTuesday! Let's focus on terpinolene today! (Ter-pin-o-lean) The ending -ene means a double bond is present which is seen below! People have said the aroma is best described as

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

New preprint on #SARSCoV2 adaptation to transmission in minks. We identify a set of mutations that have been acquired multiple times in strains circulating in mink farms, and that are

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