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How epigenetically different are the two cattle sub-species? Turns out very... My first attempted thread on Jess' new paper: doi.org/10.1186/s13059…

Sharing this #LongCovid story my wife, Meghan Rosen has been working on since this summer when she visited a Johns Hopkins Medicine clinic. Nice overview and cool to have a patient's voice in there
sciencenews.org/article/long-c…

WTF. I thought the US NIH wasn't allowing dangerous #GainOfFunction research on deadly viruses, especially the #COVID virus, but that's exactly what this group at Boston University just did. They created a potentially deadly, novel, coronavirus. Yikes. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited our work on assessing genome assembly and pangenome construction for bovine trios is now out in Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…. Thanks Danang Crysnanto , Zih-Hua Fang , Derek Bickhart, Ben Rosen, Tim Smith for the fruitful collaboration. We found several key results. 1/8

Could #ecDNA be cancer’s Achilles’ heel? Exciting work today in @nature from HHMI NEWS Investigators Howard Chang , Robert Tjian, HHMI | Janelia Zhe Liu & colleagues: go.nature.com/3nOj6LO

Here’s how ecDNAs may contribute to #cancer – & spark new ideas for treatment 🧵 (1/10)

MT @Vote4Will: The look Cory Booker gave Peggy Noonan as she blamed #gunviolence on video games was priceless bit.ly/WzGKX6

It's just a good thing they didn't rush into this response. Without a week to prepare they might have come off a bit foolish. #NRA

Review of 33 long-term #GMO feeding studies and 60 -omics studies on animals find no adverse health impacts bit.ly/R7vEcu

lol Colby Vorland 'Medicine is a subset of healthicine... Healthicine is not even in most dictionaries' bit.ly/L6thzH

cool interview: RT Michael Müller The great 'Yoghurt' paper: Listen to the STM Podcast with Jeffrey Gordon & Orla Smith bit.ly/tt99xB

Nurture 1, Nature 0: heart attack risk from 9p21 gene variant is entirely erased by eating more veggies: bit.ly/pXzlJy

MT Colby Vorland here is a good rebuttal (sweatscience.com/is-leisure-tim…) to Arya M. Sharma, MD: Why Leisure-Time Phys Activity Is Irrelevant bit.ly/pDKvCJ

Join PeopleForBikes in uniting a million voices to improve the future of biking: peopleforbikes.org/pages/pledge

MT Emily better study diff conclusion: http://1.usa.gov/hn36rC Scicurious Caffeine & Resistance Training http://bit.ly/fqjO5t

MT Emily would be more interesting if study was good. Scicurious Caffeine & Resistance Training http://bit.ly/fqjO5t

I know it's bad but in light of my surfing plans in Santa Cruz this sort of makes me feel better: Shark Survey: http://bit.ly/hPuUhT

Interesting, had to RT Kronich More Intelligent People Are More Likely to Binge Drink and Get Drunk [PsychologyToday] http://bit.ly/e7BkEY