#Genomic

Liberty Times & Politics Exclusive ‘The Argon Connection’by David Argon““I’ve been trying to get my story out since 2017.We’ll begin in Boston 2015 and work our way back: I’ve always
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LBA-1 Driver Mutation Acquisition in Utero and Childhood Followed By Lifelong Clonal Evolution Underlie Myeloproliferative Neoplasms.When do mutations in MPN start? Can we do genetic archeology?Great study by @jyoti_nangaliahttps://ash.conf
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“There’s clearly something going on with this mutation”: 7 striking new converging variants with same #677 mutations suddenly found. Experts across US independently found them & are worried—all 7 changed
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RE-INFECTION CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE: 26-year old world class cyclist Gaviria caught #COVID19 in Feb—hospitalized for 2 weeks. Prevailing wisdom suggested he’d at least be immune for foreseeable future.
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GOOD news—if you have certain Neanderthal DNA & get #COVID19. People with certain Neanderthal genes on chromosome 12 have lower rates of ICU. This region encodes proteins that activate
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A thread of how I funded publications as a grad student and postdochttps://twitter.com/rsidd120/status/1336153828672983040 first two papers were in MPE, subscription only, lab paid ~$300 for color figures each (https://www.sciencedirect.com
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Nice of @NYMag to give @nicholsonbaker8 a 5000 word marketing package for his most recent nonfiction book...which is partly about lab accidents in the 1950s.https://twitter.com/NYMag/status/1346083776594636804 "I hadn’t interviewed s
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@pjvanerp Ok, see if I can save some time later in the week with this ongoing nonsense: there is a group that claims that the original PCR assay developed by
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EPIGENETICS REPETITORIUM ... a thread DNMT1 operates on hemimethylated CpG dinucleotides present in newly replicated DNA and restores symmetrical CpG methylation. Heterochromatin emerges from a crosstalk between DNA methylation and
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As promised, a thread explaining our newest BioRxiv paper, where we’ve discovered that C. elegans can transfer memories of pathogen avoidance to naïve individuals.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.28.424563v1 What if one wo
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ICYMI, public health officials fear community transmission of B.1.1.7 (the "UK variant") is underway in Ontario. I'll dissect each piece of worrying news from this story. Thread:https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/01/26/uk-v
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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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New work from the group published today, led by the incredible, integral, and incomparable @ruth_e_hanna, developing CRISPR Base Editor technology for screens. Time for a hastily-assembled thread with screenshots! (1/n)
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My first preprint with @genologos and Barak Cohen is on @biorxivpreprint today!We came up with an information content metric which can classify functional enhancers vs silencers nearly as well as
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NEWOur paper exploring the scale of global parasite diversity is out in Proceedings B. It has a bit of everything: parasitology, biodiversity, the Smithsonian, new math, international law, and even
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