#Pathogen

Ned Nikolov, Ph.D.

NikolovScience

Dr. Fauci made headlines today by claiming that he didn't know, where Pres. Trump got the 99% number when referring to percentage of COVID cases that are "totally harmless": https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/07/10/fa

Hannah Thornton

HannahVThornton

1/10 Wrote my thesis about use of upper respiratory swabs to diagnose RTI in the community. Imagine if GPs could use a swab and point of care test to tell

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HiljaGebest

So why are some people unable to mount a good protective T-cell response? The key to this question might be a 10-year-old Danish study led by Carsten Geisler, head of

Dr. Jonathan Kolby

MyFrogCroaked

(1/N) Exactly 7 years ago, I arrived in Madagascar to perform my biggest rapid response #frog conservation project. A few months earlier, I obtained the 1st confirmed evidence of amphibian

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RokoMijicUK

Phrase of the day: "Vaccine Escape" Vaccine Escape occurs when a pathogen mutates so that it is no longer affected by a vaccine. If we mess around and take too

Liz Dueweke 🐾

LizDueweke

I had a lot of questions about the mRNA COVID vaccine, so I spoke with a good friend who is a research scientist. I am NOT a research scientist but

Dr. Jonathan Kolby

MyFrogCroaked

Five years ago today, USFWS banned 201 species of #salamanders from entering the US to prevent a #chytrid extinction crisis (see here: https://www.fws.gov/injuriouswildlife/salamanders.html?fbclid=IwAR0VIh1ZXGYgx05ilZnN1x03dsK35TPzAVApe6eoj

Josh Osowicki

JoshOsowicki

So much comparing in discussing 'rescue therapy' for human challenge trials. You can find a fulminant syndrome in ID textbooks with no simple 'rescue therapy' for most challenge pathogens (approx

Tom Bollyky

TomBollyky

A year ago, we launched @ThinkGlobalHlth, an online magazine examining how #globalhealth shapes societies, economies & everyday lives We've published 287 articles from 273 authors in 53 nations on 6

Gertrud Rey PhD (Trudy)

GertrudRey

Does a first infection with SARS-CoV-2 make a person immune to a second infection? This question is one of the prevailing issues in the current pandemic. A thread (also at

John Filipovic

johnflipside

1: The major concern of COVID vaccine is the messenger RNA, or mRNA, these vaccines are the first in history to intervene directly in patients’ genetic material and alter it,

Equity Scientist 🦋

BmoreDoc

Last night, when speaking to @BaltimoreGreens, someone asked me about @BaltCitySchools sending children and teachers back to physical buildings.I said: "people in power often impose THEIR thoughts on racial equity

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

From the last day of 2020. I got the usual push-back for calling the new variant a "ticking time bomb". Alarm isn't alarmism if it's warranted. Now it's more than

Linsey Marr

linseymarr

Why might homemade face coverings be more effective than expected? Sharing preliminary results from @isjinpan and @charbelEharb because of importance. All masks on manikin, even loose bandana, have ~50% or

Somali Chad

ChadSomali

details thread on how to counter Russian orthofascism: 1. immediate partition of Serbia, with a 20 kiloton warhead dropped on belgrade. More land should be given to Albania than Croatia

Jake Wintermute

SynBio1

People I’m through the looking glass on poop DNA privacy. Follow me down the rabbit hole if you dare. Your typical bowel movement contains about 20 milligrams of DNA, of

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