27/To be clear, this does not answer whether the virus came from nature or leaked from a lab. WHO says repeatedly that all theories should be investigated, including a lab leak, and Chinese officials have balked at an independent audit, the only way to rule out that possibility

1/A year ago, Chinese scientists published data from samples collected at a Wuhan market at the heart of the COVID outbreak - startling many, given it happened years ago. Then the data got retracted.

Maria Cheng and I tried to find out why. Our findings:
apnews.com/article/china-…

[ #Parution #numérique ] Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo, “Penser le #vivant autrement”, Éditions du Collège de France, coll. “Leçons inaugurales”, désormais en #accèsouvert freemium books.openedition.org/cdf/16649 OpenEdition #biodiversité #écosystèmes Collège de France Virginie Courtier Orgogozo

CFA: 5th meeting of the PhilInBioMed network (ZIF Bielefeld, Germany, Sep 30-Oct 2). For everyone interested in the conceptual, theoretical, and philosophical foundations of the biomedical sciences! philinbiomed.org/event/fifth-ph…
#philosophy #biology #medicine #philsci

L'OPECST a réuni son conseil scientifique pour un large tour d'horizon des sujets d'actualité et émergents
➡️ #recherche fondamentale
➡️relations #science -industrie
➡️attractivité des métiers
➡️diplomatie scientifique

👉Composition du conseil scientifique bit.ly/3VrSwJo

Very pleased to see our paper taking a comparative approach to understand the evolution of menopause in toothed whales published today in nature . Couple of slides below talking through the key results but all the details here: nature.com/articles/s4158…

This important set of principles was released today by leading scientists working at the intersection of AI and synthetic biology. I write about this issue extensively in my forthcoming book, Superconvergence, coming June 11.
responsiblebiodesign.ai

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 'A third takeaway has to do with equity, which has been lacking in the discussion in the past... research that promises potential biomedical benefits at the risk of possibly starting a pandemic is just further disadvantaging groups that have already been disadvantaged'

This years Drosophila service award goes to the yeoman efforts over many decades by the leadership and staff of the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center; no fly lab exists that does not owe them a huge debt of gratitude 🙏 congrats all!

'Herbaria & other natural history collections are facilitating a deeper & broader understanding of past & present + providing tools to meet known & unforeseen challenges facing humanity.'
We can hardly risk the loss of such resource.
C. Davis Harvard University
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Over 4 yrs after being first to publicly release SARS-CoV-2 genome, Yong-Zhen Zhang just published large set of viral seqs from first stage of COVID-19 outbreak in China
academic.oup.com/ve/advance-art…

He uses data to suggest scenarios re early outbreak & root of viral phylogenetic tree

✍️The Courtier Lab (Virginie Courtier Orgogozo) contributed to the publication of a new article in BMC Bioinformatics:

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bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Une petite fourmi arrivée au Kenya a conduit à l'effondrement des populations de buffles.
Un exemple frappant, bien choisi par Tatiana Giraud, qui alerte sur l'effondrement de la biodiversité Le Figaro

youtu.be/QBFB56cZo4o?t=…

Do we have the right to change environments in space to our liking?
To what extent should we take efforts to protect alien life that we may not even be able to detect?
prindleinstitute.org/2019/09/the-et…

❗Institut Jacques Monod seminar❗

'Challenges in #forensic genetic investigation of archived biological traces' by Olga Nagy, University of Szeged🧬🔍

Invited by Courtier Lab (@Biol4Ever)

🗓️Tomorrow, Tuesday, Feb 27, at 11.45 am
📍François Jacob room

ijm.fr/ijm-seminar-ol…

'Exoskeleton of a black soldier fly'🦟Stéphane Faucher, Tinhinane Attia, Peter Moonen, Alexis Falgayrac & Susana Fernandes from @univpau_uppa E2S UPPA @cnrs #DMEX . Hexagonal mineral units of a #pupa #exoskeleton & coveted #chitin layer.

🔬Zeiss Xradia Versa & Tescan UniTOM μCT

Very excited to share a huge project that's been a long time in the making. Interested in squamate macroevolution? Curious about how snakes fit into the broader ecological context of squamates? Looking for a new squamate phylogeny? Check out our new work: doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

Is there a free/OpenSource #software to analyze and annotate organs in #microCT / #CT scan images and reconstruct volumes?