Is the genome just a bag of genes? A new paper in Science now reports that for two thirds of an organisms' genes the position along the chromosome is actually very tightly constrained! Amazing work from my favorite night scientist
Martin Lercher and his team!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Structural basis for neutralizing antibody binding to pertussis toxin pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40172968/ #cryoem

ASM encourages our members to advocate for their research and for the microbial sciences. On Friday, March 7, there will be a rally to #standupforscience2025 in Washington, D.C. and more than 30 other locations nationwide. For information and updates, visit: standupforscience2025.org?trk=feed-det...

Wow! UT Austin’s Jason McLellan will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his work on structure-based vaccine design that led to development of vaccines to fight COVID-19 & RSV.
@mclellanlab.bsky.social @utaustin.bsky.social #COVIDVaccine
cns.utexas.edu/news/announc...

I think people both within science and outside science don’t fully appreciate the miracle that were the Covid-19 vaccines. How much courage it took to get the sequence out, how much work had already gone into figuring out the best viral antigen and how best to present it. 1/

After 24 years of work, I’m thrilled to announce the TYMEFLIES dataset, which comprises metagenomes from Lake Mendota (Madison, WI), collected roughly every 10 days (471 samples) for 20 years! @quendi.bsky.social @robinrohwer.bsky.social

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