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After 5 years, 150k papers and 17 million genomes, here's what we learned about SARS-CoV-2 and viruses in general.
It holds lessons for future pandemics - only if we listen. "We’re in a worse place in terms of pandemic prevention" @eddieholmes.bsky.social told me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
It holds lessons for future pandemics - only if we listen. "We’re in a worse place in terms of pandemic prevention" @eddieholmes.bsky.social told me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Four ways COVID changed virology: lessons from the most sequenced virus of all time
After 150,000 articles and 17 million genome sequences, what has science taught us about SARS-CoV-2?
www.nature.com
March 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
After 5 years, 150k papers and 17 million genomes, here's what we learned about SARS-CoV-2 and viruses in general.
It holds lessons for future pandemics - only if we listen. "We’re in a worse place in terms of pandemic prevention" @eddieholmes.bsky.social told me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
It holds lessons for future pandemics - only if we listen. "We’re in a worse place in terms of pandemic prevention" @eddieholmes.bsky.social told me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Anyone been to Park Street lately? Me neither.
"You talk to anybody around here, we're very worried. We all have signs up in our windows: Save Park Street."
Traders on what was once Bristol's most prestigious shopping road are united in their opposition to close it to through-traffic
Traders on what was once Bristol's most prestigious shopping road are united in their opposition to close it to through-traffic
Traders united in opposition to closing Park Street to through-traffic
Ambitious plans envisage Park Street "made into a pleasant environment and encourage people to spend more time supporting local businesses"
www.bristol247.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Anyone been to Park Street lately? Me neither.
I wrote about Colossal's new woolly mouse (left), engineered with a mix of mammoth-inspired edits and mouse phenotypes. My story: www.nature.com/articles/d41....
20+ years ago Jackson Lab bred a 'wooly' mouse (right) missing a gene called Fam83g. bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
20+ years ago Jackson Lab bred a 'wooly' mouse (right) missing a gene called Fam83g. bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
March 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I wrote about Colossal's new woolly mouse (left), engineered with a mix of mammoth-inspired edits and mouse phenotypes. My story: www.nature.com/articles/d41....
20+ years ago Jackson Lab bred a 'wooly' mouse (right) missing a gene called Fam83g. bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
20+ years ago Jackson Lab bred a 'wooly' mouse (right) missing a gene called Fam83g. bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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This. Again, RFK Jr is lying and needs to be called out as a liar by the press. This is the first U.S. death *in 10 years*! So yeah, pretty damn unusual.
Actually, a measles outbreak IS an unusual occurrence. Especially in a country like the US, which had eliminated the disease thanks to vaccination until recently.
It's so unusual that most physicians in the U.S. have NEVER seen a case!
www.nbcnews.com/now/video/-i...
It's so unusual that most physicians in the U.S. have NEVER seen a case!
www.nbcnews.com/now/video/-i...
'It's not unusual': RFK Jr. comments on growing Texas measles outbreak
When questioned about a growing measles outbreak in West Texas that has claimed at least one life, Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told reporters "we have measles outbreaks eve...
www.nbcnews.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
This. Again, RFK Jr is lying and needs to be called out as a liar by the press. This is the first U.S. death *in 10 years*! So yeah, pretty damn unusual.
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I feel so strongly about the need for evidence-based policy and a dogged defence of science
I said it in 2020, and will reiterate it til the end of time.
The world may change - our principles should not
I said it in 2020, and will reiterate it til the end of time.
The world may change - our principles should not
In 2025, we continue to advocate for policy based on scientific evidence. This 2020 Editorial, “We need leaders that believe in scientific evidence”, resonates today as loudly as ever: plos.io/34lyl59. PLOS Biology also continues to push for DEI and a diverse scientific community:
plos.io/3rzxczU 🧪
plos.io/3rzxczU 🧪
We need leaders that believe in scientific evidence
In a world beset by attempts to undermine scientific evidence and evidence-based policy, we emphasize their important role in helping humanity rise to the challenges of our time.
plos.io
February 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I feel so strongly about the need for evidence-based policy and a dogged defence of science
I said it in 2020, and will reiterate it til the end of time.
The world may change - our principles should not
I said it in 2020, and will reiterate it til the end of time.
The world may change - our principles should not
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This is indeed a great story from Ewen (Science magazine has reported on this too). Ewen makes it properly clear that there are many questions about the functionality (or not) of all these "mini-proteins". Many may turn out to be "junk peptides". BUT...
If you need a bio-break from all the political news in the US, this extremely geeky exploration of 'dark proteins' is a great read www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Dark proteins’ hiding in our cells could hold clues to cancer and other diseases
The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. The search is on to find out what they do.
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This is indeed a great story from Ewen (Science magazine has reported on this too). Ewen makes it properly clear that there are many questions about the functionality (or not) of all these "mini-proteins". Many may turn out to be "junk peptides". BUT...
I wrote for @natureportfolio.bsky.social about 'dark proteins' encoded by our genomes. Once overlooked, they may be central to cancers, cellular biology and evolutionary innovation. As @sebastiaanvheesch.bsky.social told me: "There's new biology here."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Dark proteins’ hiding in our cells could hold clues to cancer and other diseases
The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. The search is on to find out what they do.
www.nature.com
January 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I wrote for @natureportfolio.bsky.social about 'dark proteins' encoded by our genomes. Once overlooked, they may be central to cancers, cellular biology and evolutionary innovation. As @sebastiaanvheesch.bsky.social told me: "There's new biology here."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Hi palaeopeople - this new Robyn Pickering account is a fake. The real Prof Pickering is @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social
This new account has an extra ‘bsky’ after the handle and started DM-ing me immediately after I followed it.
This new account has an extra ‘bsky’ after the handle and started DM-ing me immediately after I followed it.
January 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Hi palaeopeople - this new Robyn Pickering account is a fake. The real Prof Pickering is @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social
This new account has an extra ‘bsky’ after the handle and started DM-ing me immediately after I followed it.
This new account has an extra ‘bsky’ after the handle and started DM-ing me immediately after I followed it.
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The 2024 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, who discovered microRNAs, a class of tiny RNA molecules that help to control how genes are expressed in multicellular organisms. Read the Nature article. 🧪
Medicine Nobel awarded for gene-regulating ‘microRNAs’
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun identified a class of tiny molecules that have a crucial role in controlling gene expression.
go.nature.com
October 7, 2024 at 1:46 PM
The 2024 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, who discovered microRNAs, a class of tiny RNA molecules that help to control how genes are expressed in multicellular organisms. Read the Nature article. 🧪