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I knew he was a grifter the moment I heard him open his mouth about sunlight
He didn’t mention circadian biology once and continued to propagate reductive centralized ideas about UV light
It’s only going to get worse for this dilettante who can’t answer basic questions about his own... See more
Zaid K. Dahhajx.com
Short of building an AGI God this is where your ML skills might make the biggest difference. Green's lucid understanding of biomedical research both lets him see through academic twaddle and say the concrete «how» of using Scale to solve health end-to-end.
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When E. coli becomes burdened with a lot of damaged DNA, LexA falls off the lo-fi polymerase genes. Now the lo-fi polymerases help repair E. coli’s DNA. And because they do a less accurate job, they leave behind
Carl Zimmer • Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
Modern genetic techniques were instrumental for understanding the fundamentals of the virus and ascertaining where it spread. The first step was mapping the virus’s genome—a more manageable task for a virus than for more complex organisms. The genome of every virus contains instructions for just a handful of proteins, and since viruses work by
... See moreNicholas A. Christakis • Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
While not technically alive, there's an evil genius to viruses that never ceases to amaze me. It's one reason I became a virologist. A recent Nature paper reveal a remarkable trick SARS-Cov-2 learned that makes it nastier than the first SARS. Both viruses…
Peter Kolchinskyx.comThe importance of genotype-independent forces in this system suggests that therapeutic interventions involving pore-dwelling species might focus on removing resident populations over optimizing probiotic fitness.
Tami Liebermanx.com
Decades ago, we published a paper demonstrating the accuracy of phylogenetic analysis in a fast-evolving virus (Hillis et al., 1992. Science 255:589-592). Reviewers questioned the relevance of a viral phylogeny. Perhaps they understand now? https://t.co/g1hBuFA9DK