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Sam Mclaughlin 🧫🦕
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PhD student at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Interested in molecular biology and infectious disease | Also dinosaurs, sci fi, and silly things
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It's great to see the proper announcement of something we have been working on for so long!
@pathogenomenick.bsky.social @meerac.bsky.social @rmcolq.bsky.social @arambaut.bsky.social and many others 😁
UKHSA launches new metagenomic surveillance for health security
The UK launches mSCAPE, a world-first metagenomics initiative by UKHSA to enhance health security through rapid pathogen detection and surveillance.
www.gov.uk
January 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Day 1 for me here at the Gault Nature Reserve and the instrumenet FINESSE is already going strong!
January 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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To honour Antje Boetius for her outstanding contributions to marine microbiology, DSMZ researchers named the strain Streptomyces boetiae (DSM 44917) after her.

#herstory #HonoringWomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #marinebiology #expedition
January 6, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Life isn't even-handed: many cellular components are all either left or right handed. But we are now (uncomfortably) close to being able to make flipped "mirror" cells. A group of us consider and highlight the risks and call for collective effort before we get there.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Confronting risks of mirror life
Broad discussion is needed to chart a path forward.
www.science.org
December 13, 2024 at 6:25 AM