well, apparently owning a dog is not genetic, not for the humans that is 🤣. This study also shows that proper statistical adjustments actually work, sometimes 😉

I agree with Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD that Congress is perhaps the worst place to try to determine the true origin of #Covid . Their goals are scoring points and posturing, not getting at the scientific truth

We analyzed all 5734 of the available WGS samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas, and find far, far smaller numbers of microbes than previous reports that appeared (with great fanfare) in nature and Cell. With Yuchen Ge et al biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

absolutely delighted to have my former #TIGR colleague Jane Carlton join Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins BME as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professors. Can't wait to collaborate once again on some cool science!

update: we did a quick comparison and found that a majority of the 150K 'novel' transcripts are already in CHESS (v3), and/or were in the larger set we assembled and discarded. So no, not novel 𝕐 (@[email protected]) Dr. (Lucia) Peixoto ([email protected])

How many people know that Robert Kennedy's only claim to fame (besides his name) is that he's been spreading anti-vaccine misinformation for the past two decades? And that qualifies him for President how? forbes.com/sites/stevensa…

He's made his name as an anti-vaccine activist, but now he is convinced he should be President. A combination of ignorance and arrogance, that's Robert Kennedy Jr forbes.com/sites/stevensa…

I don't want to believe this is true, but it's plausible, and worrisome. Who wants that student as their future physician?

A very 'small study' says fluoridated water will give your child neurological problems–but it got into the The New York Times, oh dear. Calling on some good skeptical docs to weigh in! David Gorski, MD, PhD Steven Novella nytimes.com/2024/05/22/wel…

Congratulations to Dr. Ales Varabyou, Ales Varabyou, who formally graduated from the JHU Computer Science Ph.D. program today! Co-advised by Mihaela Pertea. It was especially rewarding to meet his parents, who traveled all the way from Belarus

do your bioinformatics analysis with the eye of PSAURON, which sees everything...

Three bioRxiv releases from my lab last week, and one more today! From postdoc Markus Sommer, his new eukaryotic gene recognizer, PSAURON (the 'p' is silent), a successor to his bacterial gene finder Balrog #LOTR biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

if you're concerned that the new AlphaFold3 is totally closed source and doesn't even share executables, sign the letter to Nature that is being put together - see the thread quoted here. The link to the letter is the 2nd tweet in the thread.

Very sad to hear of the passing of Jim Simons, founder of the Simons Foundation and the Flatiron Institute in NYC, and a very positive force for scientific research in multiple fields that he supported through his philanthropy

We just published the genome of the whitebark pine, a high-altitude pine that is critically endangered by a fungal pathogen. This massive conifer genome came in at 27.6 Gbp, and we placed 24 Gbp on its 12 chromosomes academic.oup.com/g3journal/arti…