Tavo @tavoglc@social.cleverlibre.org

Aquí podemos ver animaciones que explican cómo se transmite el coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
Vía Riken. #COVID19

This is one of those stories that either is the start of something huge or will sink like a stone: not much in between.

#Tessera's claims are ambitious but not unprecedented. One of our clients does something similar with stem cells, and they have a product that's actually made it to market. As far as I can tell, Tessera is claiming the ability to do this in all kinds of cells, with whole living organisms. Which would be a really big deal.

From a bioinformatics / biostatistics perspective (you knew that was coming) I have Questions about consistency. Doing it once, or ten times, or a thousand, isn't enough. You need to do it *trillions*, very accurately indeed. With cell cultures you just screen out the cells that didn't do what you wanted and keep the ones that did: insert "bury their mistakes" joke here. And with stem cells it's particularly easy to know when you have it right.

"65 percent efficiency—20 times the rate at which it performed unintended or errant edits" sounds quite good on a cell-by-cell basis, although I'd like to see the error bars on those numbers. In a patient, it would be an unmitigated disaster. Congratulations, we've cured your muscular dystrophy ... and given you ten different types of cancer.

More generally, their secrecy does not fill me with confidence, of the 95% variety or any other. As I've said many times before, science done in secret isn't science at all, it's alchemy.

Well. It's early days yet. Let's just hope Tessera isn't another Theranos, because I am *really tired* of that. If they do achieve any of what they're claiming, I'll be cheering them on.

#genetics #geneediting #genewriting #stemcell #bioinformatics #musculardystrophy #cancer

https://www.the-scientist.com/bio-business/can-gene-writing-deliver-what-gene-editing-can-t-70740

I'm desperately trying to permanently leave the bird app, but as a freelance journalist, it has also been a crucial tool in getting work

I'm posting my favorite stories from 2022 here with the hopes that I can find community here: (boosts very welcome)

1) My beat in Colombia can get pretty grisly. But this year also brought with a chance for me to focus on peace-building.

This was a fun one: I talked to demobilized guerillas who seek peace through brewing.

https://www.ozy.com/pg/newsletter/the-daily-dose/450065/

I know most of you don't want to think about #COVID, but I worry that too many people are unaware of the actual #risk and current situation, so I wrote this:
https://drkristenstuppy.substack.com/p/we-dont-talk-about-covid?sd=pf

@tootiatricians
#LongCovid #wastewater #prevention #COVIDisAirborne #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #longcovidkids

I think it's wild to remember how terrified we all were of AIDS back in the day, when HIV infection was so much easier to avoid. Covid comes along and... shrug.

#covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #covid #Tcells #ImmunityTheft #LongCovid #Mask #HIV #AIDS #CDC #WHO #pandemic #tripledemic

In April 2020, I observed some unusual activity involving people on Twitter who claimed to be doctors and appeared to be having an outsized influence not only on Twitter discourse related to COVID, but on actual COVID policies. I tweeted about it at the time and got shouted down by people saying I was being disrespectful to the “heroes” of the pandemic (I wasn’t). Well, that story is finally starting to unravel. As it turns out, some of those “doctors” weren’t actually doctors at all. 1/

Washington Post will be creating their own instance. They will add #mastodon accounts to journalist profiles.

Institutional #journalism embracing the #fediverse is important.

#commodon #journodon @communicationscholars

Happy Winter Solstice from me and the Holly King. #WinterSolstice #Yule

I’m a #TwitterRefugee & #NewHere, so I should probably do an #introduction. I’m a #retired grandmother, & recently started learning Tai Chi Sun Style & Spanish. I’ve always been an #animallover, have had many #dogs that were #rescues, used to own #horses & ride hunt seat & dressage, enjoy #reading #mysteries & #scifi, have done some writing, & do a little proofreading & #knitting. I’m also a #ProgressiveChristian (ex-evangelical) who follows #politics.

#TwitterMigration

One of the most striking charts showing how the pandemic exposed underlying social #inequality: Life expectancy declined by 5 to 6 years in the lowest-income neighborhoods of CA, but barely changed in the wealthiest ones.
[Schwandt et al 2022 "Changes in the Relationship Between Income and #LifeExpectancy Before and During the #COVID19 Pandemic, #California, 2015-2021]
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2794146 #publichealth #MedMastodon #healthequity #demographics #sociology #nnip
c @jks
@gregggonsalves

Are there any good #Muslim instances on #mastodon?

I have a friend who has experienced so much racism and surveillance that she's wary of using social media at all. I was thinking that a server run by and for Muslims like herself might be a safer place to plug in.

Please share suggestions or RT if your followers might know. Thanks!

Our study on the molecular evolution of spermatogenesis across mammals, led by @Florent_Murat_ and @NoeM42109057, is now out in @Nature!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05547-7

Think on the brightside.. you'll go viral with your next dance 😅

#academia #PhD #phdlife #science #xp @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter

Incredible images of the #Moon as seen from the #Orion capsule!

Image Credit: #NASA

Oh. my. god.

Madison Square Garden used facial recognition to identify and stop a mom from attending a Christmas show with her kid because she's an attorney at a firm who is engaged in litigation with them.

This is why it's not enough to just ban government and law enforcement use of #facialrecognition. There are so many ways private companies and even individuals can abuse #biometric #surveillance tech.

#BanFacialRecognition entirely. Yesterday.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/msgs-facial-recognition-stops-mom-from-attending-christmas-show-with-child/4004471/

In '21 we published that Covid was reminiscent of autoimmune disease & marked by immune dysregulation https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/10/10/1267

Recently Covid was added to the list of Autoimmune diseases

Told you. The immune system is harming people and harmed from Cov2

https://www.autoimmuneregistry.org/long-covid-announcement

#Mozilla just announced they are joining the #fediverse

"In early 2023, Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social"

they will start with Mastodon, but are "looking forward to working on the challenges that crosscut the Fediverse"

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/ #FediNews

A leading global consultancy specializing in delivering the benefits of Open Source software to the commercial world, @collabora is seeking developers, sysadmins, engineers, and more. Browse current job openings on #OSJobHub https://opensourcejobhub.com/company/317/ #Linux #OpenSource #Debian #Python #sysadmin #kernel #developer #engineer

During World War II, red lips were seen as a bold act of defiance. Adolf Hitler famously “hated red lipstick.” In Allied countries, wearing it became a sign of patriotism and a statement against facism.
The American government tapped Elizabeth Arden to create a standard issue lip color for women in service. Her "Montezuma Red" matched and accentuated their uniforms' red piping.
#history #historicalfacts #facts #funfacts #makeup #lipstick #churchill #wwii