#Strains

Victoria Tenge

vten89

Check out this recent publication from the Estes Lab in @PNASNews using genetically modified #enteroids to study the interplay of host IFN responses and human #norovirus infection: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2010834117@BCMFromtheLabs 1/4

Maya Wardeh

maroshcka

Where might novel coronaviruses come from? Our study with @Baylism and Marcus Blagrove is now out: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21034-5@LivUni_IVES Thread 1/16 Background:Novel coronaviruses arise by homologous recombination o

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

New data from Novavax vaccine just showed that UK & esp South African variants are more problematic in real world than lab experiments suggested. Implications are profound for 2021 and

Hector Drummond, Stay Home. Die Slowly Inside.

hector_drummond

The UK govt has only three strategies with Covid. Herd immunity/live with it, lockdown for total elimination, or lockdown until a vaccine is found.1/9 But the last is just suicidal

Ananyo Bhattacharya

Ananyo

I hate lockdowns and I hate schools being closed. Which is why I don't want a fourth lockdown later this year. How do we avoid that? 1/ First let's counter

Eddie Clark

Publicwrongs

Astonishing. 3 public health scholars with absolutely no relevant expertise purporting to accurately state the incredibly complex legal situation around NZ citizens overseas having their return prevented or delayed further

Kevin Mingus

KevinMingus

1/3 We are changing our approach for sponsors for 2021! We're in search of 100 people to donate $100 to help us get on track for next season, as most

Balazs Lab

BalazsLab

We have just uploaded a pre-print to MedRxiv sharing our data on the potential for sera from recipients of currently administered mRNA vaccines to neutralize 10 different circulating strains of

Swaine Chen

swaine_chen

Super excited to share a preprint (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.30.405282v1) for one of the lab’s long term, ambitious projects - doing effective, genome-scale, sexual genetics in E. coli. This is making F1 hybrids

Pippa Crerar

PippaCrerar

NEW Boris Johnson reveals the new more infectious "Kent" variant also has a higher degree of mortality. Sir Patrick Vallance says new variant is 30-70% more transmissible than old variant

Kevin Ng

KevinWNg

An updated version of our manuscript on antibody cross-reactivity between seasonal coronaviruses and SARS-CoV-2 is now online:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.14.095414v2 Plenty of new data in this version, including a proper

Darren Markland

drdagly

Ok. Educational thread. #COVID19 #vaccine #strains #Mutation First a caveat. Until we have good data most of this thread is theoretical, but to keep you out of suspense, I believe

Johan Hellström 🇸🇪

jhnhellstrom

When you read about scientists suggesting things the new strain might do, you are really just seeing how an early step in the scientific process works and just wander through

Amir Attaran

profamirattaran

Viral strains in the UK. See the orange bit which picks up in December and rapidly crowds out the competition?That strain is just getting going in Canada.We are going to

Jeffrey Duchin, MD

DocJeffD

Straight Talk About the New Variant COVID-19 Strain. As much as I regret saying it just when so many need & deserve a break, the new variant COVID-19 strain is

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

Some COVID thoughts on this bright, beautiful Christmas Eve morning in London. Context: I am an expert in genetics and computational biology; I know and chit-chat with experts in viral

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