#Pathogen

Joshua T Monrad

jtmonrad

Our paper "Promoting versatile vaccine development for emerging pandemics," with @JonasSandbrink and @EnergCh, is now out in @Nature_NPJ Vaccines!We started this research in June of last year, so it's exciting

Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓

BillyBostickson

1. "Everything starts here, everything disappears from here, & the South China Seafood Market will become clean!"Interesting Chinese report about the South China Seafood Market & WCDC's pathogen Lab at

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

I understand why reputable polls are using "covid was created in a lab" as a conspiracy theory/misinformation test, but at the same time it feels like a throwback to the

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

COVID Action Group Statement: We Must Adopt a “Zero Covid” Strategy to DefendAgainst new and old Coronavirus VariantsThe recently reported genetic changes to the coronavirus that have been identified in

AAdhira 🌙🇮🇳

Aadhiraspeaks

I never wanted to write a Prof thread here since I wanted this to be break. But some comments regarding Dentistry is pushing me to be writing this, making me

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

COVID Update December 26: The wind is invisible too, but you can feel it change.Not with COVID where the stillness is deceptive. And deadly. 1/ I talked to a friend

Matt Hall

cispt2

We've posted an updated version of @ScientistShrimp @sckales TMPRSS2 @biorxivpreprint with some new information about active enzyme concentration in the assay. We also show the camostat metabolite is almost as

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

Modellers believe that spreading out our limited supply of vaccine as single doses for 3 months will save up to 6000 lives. One concern though is whether single doses might

🌰Build Soil: plant one million edible chestnuts!

BuildSoil

Alright back to soil carbon. Today i’m talking about a specific kind of composting to address the big question: in a world with limited clean water, why do we shit

Joanna Poole 💙

Jopo_dr

Oh medtwitter I have found one of my coolest evolutionary facts ever! I was looking at evolution of innate immune system. It's very old, below vertebrates. We didn't get adaptive

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

tldr RaTG13, the virus most closely related to SARS-CoV-2 was discovered by the WIV in a bat cave in 2013 where 6 miners contracted a viral infection leading to severe

Nicola Bidoli 🛡🛡🛡

BidoliNicola

Glycans / Sugars / Spike Protein /The Secret action of C19 1/19 This is mainly because HIV co-opts its host's cellular mechanism to cover itself with human glycans.

Adi Millman

AdiMillman

Happy to share our new preprint about how we solved the mystery of some of the coolest bacterial elements:Retrons function as anti-phage defense systems!https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.06.21.156273v1See thread below by the 3 of

Mac n’ Chise 🧬🧫🦠

sailorrooscout

It is important to point out that the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is effective against the B.1.1.7 variant and reduces virus shedding and transmission. With this most likely being the dominate strain,

Emilia C Skirmuntt 🦇🧬🦠

ESkirmuntt

Let’s talk about vaccines and dosing again (another thread;) )There is a lot of talk at the moment about dosing and delays. First, it was the UK who decided to

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

There has been a lot of discussion of the Swedish approach to coping with the #COVID19 pandemic, and of whether their strategy of more voluntary restrictions and a more rapid

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