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A surprise bonus from COVID-19 vaccines: bolstering cancer treatment | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
A surprise bonus from COVID-19 vaccines: bolstering cancer treatment
Patients who got shots of mRNA before starting a type of cancer immunotherapy lived much longer
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October 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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SARS-CoV-2 variants from Turin (Italy) Wastewater Treatment Plant -
May and June 2025 arpa.piemonte.it/scheda-infor...

Monitoring is the way! 🧬 💡
#WBE
#SARSCoV2
#wastewater
July 23, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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If you are curious about which SARS-CoV-2 variants are still circulating in Turin (Italy), check the latest variant report:
www.arpa.piemonte.it/scheda-infor...

SARS-CoV-2 variants from Turin (Italy) WWTP in March and April 2025.
Monitoring is the way! 🧬 🦠

#WBE
#SARSCoV2
#wastewater
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May 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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SARS-CoV-2 variants from Turin (Italy) WWTP (WasteWater Treatment Plant) in January and February 2025
Monitoring is the way! 🧬 🦠

www.arpa.piemonte.it/scheda-infor...

#WBE
#SARSCoV2
#wastewater
Sequenziamento acque reflue: le varianti dominanti nel 2025 nel depuratore di Castiglione Torinese | Arpa Piemonte
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April 2, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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RFK, Jr. Wants to Let Bird Flu Spread on Poultry Farms. Why Experts Are Concerned
Health secretary RFK, Jr. has repeatedly suggested that farmers should let bird flu spread through flocks. Experts explain why that’s a dangerous idea
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March 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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www.reuters.com/business/hea... #H7N9 #birdflu
US reports first outbreak of deadly H7N9 bird flu since 2017
The United States reported the first outbreak of the deadly H7N9 bird flu on a poultry farm since 2017, as the country continues to grapple with another bird flu strain that has infected humans and caused egg prices to hit record highs.
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March 19, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/c...
Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm
More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.
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March 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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After 150,000 articles and 17 million genome sequences, what has science taught us about SARS-CoV-2?

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Four ways COVID changed virology: lessons from the most sequenced virus of all time
Nature - After 150,000 articles and 17 million genome sequences, what has science taught us about SARS-Cov-2?
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March 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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From water quality to fish diversity: citizen scientists make a difference in the River Bure!

🐟👩‍🔬 Volunteers joined forces with experts to co-design an #eDNA based study, shedding light on the health of this vital chalk stream in Norfolk, England.

👉 bit.ly/3UF9qnM

#CitizenScience #ScienceForAll
Co‐design of a citizen science study: Unlocking the potential of eDNA for volunteer freshwater monitoring
We explored the potential of environmental DNA (eDNA) for vertebrate (mainly fish) species monitoring through a co-designed catchment monitoring strategy.
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March 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Important update on BA.3.2 github.com/cov-lineages...

there were a signal in SA WW
March 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Quick update on the highly mutated variant (now designated BA.3.2) identified in South Africa (summary here: bsky.app/profile/ryan...).

We're seeing a fairly clear signal in wastewater from South Africa, dating back a couple of months.

No detections in the US as of yet.

github.com/cov-lineages...
March 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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openRxiv has arrived!

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
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#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
March 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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starting now!!!
February 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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It's not "Breaking News" now, since it was announced by NIH yesterday. But it is breaking.......
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February 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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"Rapidly identifying mutations that affect transmission could improve our understanding of viral biology and highlight new variants that warrant further study. Our model detects lineages with increased transmission even at low frequencies." #surveillance
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Inferring effects of mutations on SARS-CoV-2 transmission from genomic surveillance data - Nature Communications
Identifying mutations in pathogen genomes that confer transmission advantages could improve understanding of viral biology and flag variants for further study. Here, the authors develop a model for id...
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January 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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www.nature.com/articles/d41... #H5N1 #flu
Will bird flu spark a human pandemic? Scientists say the risk is rising
H5N1 is adapting to new mammalian hosts, raising the possibility of the virus spreading between humans.
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January 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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SARS-CoV-2 variants from the Turin (Italy) WWTP in November and December 2024

www.arpa.piemonte.it/scheda-infor...

#WBE
#SARSCoV2
#wastewatermonitoring
Sequenziamento acque reflue: le varianti dominanti nel 2024 nel depuratore di Castiglione Torinese | Arpa Piemonte
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January 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#AI #viralvariantsevolution #viralvariantsprediction
What will viruses do next? AI is helping scientists predict their evolution
Forecasts of viral variation could improve vaccine and antiviral treatments ahead of time.
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January 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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SARS-CoV-2 variants from the Turin (Italy) WWTP in September and October 2024
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November 18, 2024 at 7:55 AM