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Mar 5, 2023
my dad is an entomologist, so I often find that something I have basically always known about bugs totally blows regular people's minds. I'm gonna start a thread of sick bug* facts that normies may or may not know. *using bug in the colloquial sense
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Jun 12, 2023
Beetles are the archetype of biological diversity: ~1/4 of described lifeforms are beetles. Why this "inordinate fondness" is one of evolutionary biology's enduring questions. We connect it to evolution deep down at the cellular level: https://biorxi
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Joe Parker
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May 9, 2023
Fascinating new preprint on bioRxiv tackles a whale of a question: Whales are huge. So why don’t they get a ton of cancers? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.07.539748v1 twitter.com/JSheltzer/status/1656014350006599681/photo/1
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Jason Sheltzer
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May 5, 2023
OMG it literally took someone SWIMMING FROM HAWAII TO CALIFORNIA to discover this, but wow did we find something shocking in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch... [a thread 🧵]… New study: plos.io/3LXY3CC twitter.com/RebeccaRHelm/status/16545367564931563
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Rebecca R Helm
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Apr 17, 2023
Let me introduce our latest preprint: "The architecture of information processing in biological systems", a joint effort with @dbusiello1, @SamirSuweis at @LIPh_Lab, @mat_bruzz, and Marco Dal Maschio! Link to the preprint and a thread👇 arxiv.org/ab
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Giorgio Nicoletti
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Mar 20, 2023
In all domains of life, natural selection crafted mechanisms to defend against pathogens. Remarkably, some of the evolved proteins are shared among all domains of life, including nucleotide binding leucine-rich repeat immune receptors (NLRs) 1/n twi
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Mark Peifer
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Jan 26, 2023
This looks ok at first glance. Not as good as rapamycin (had to say it), but decent absolute and relative effects, at least in females. Here’s my method for quickly assessing claims of lifespan extension in mice in under 60 seconds /1 twitter.com/ag
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Matt Kaeberlein
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Jan 24, 2023
Results of ALLO-715, an allogeneic BCMA-targeting CAR T cell therapy are published. Novel features to this product: ‼️ Has rituximab kill switch ‼️ Knockout of the T cell receptor alpha constant (TRAC) to reduce GVHD risk ‼️ Knockout CD52 /1 #mmsm w
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Ben Derman
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Jan 12, 2023
Delighted to share with you our latest paper. Here, we test the hypothesis that aging may be driven by DNA damage-induced changes to the epigenome. Mightbe due to a glitch in the software of the body that causes it to malfunction, which can be fixed
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David Sinclair
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Oct 19, 2022
So here's my take on the BU experiments. I know you can't say this on Twitter, but it is my current state of understanding, possibly imperfect, subject to revision with better understanding, and trying to make sense rather than condemn opponents.
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Marc Lipsitch
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Sep 27, 2022
What were the origins of the genetic mutations that cause Multiple Sclerosis? Were they advantageous in the past? I have been working on these questions for the past year, and am delighted to share our new preprint! A short 🧵: bit.ly/3DWfP5r
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Will Barrie
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Sep 23, 2022
Currently there is a trend towards convergent evolution in SARS-CoV-2. But is that the whole picture? All roads to Rome and that’s it? Or where do we go from here? My 2 cents in an illustrated 😊 thread…. 1/ twitter.com/EllingUlrich/status/1573258802
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Ulrich Elling
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