What if we could universally recombine, insert, delete, or invert any two pieces of DNA? In back-to-back nature papers, we report the discovery of bridge RNAs and 3 atomic structures of the first natural RNA-guided recombinase - a new mechanism for programmable genome design

Bill Evans August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980 Here, he is performing “Someday My Prince Will Come” with Eddie Gomez on bass and Marty Morell on drums live in Paris, France in 1972. Thanks The Jazz Estate 🙏🏻

Ha! I think I found my next exam Q. Discuss.

Great work as always. I wonder if one could do the same analysis with insect vectors (say sandflies) to determine susceptibility to one and not another species of Leishmania parasite and how climate may contribute to this changing. Other factor also at play obviously.

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SITTING DOWN WITH YOU EVERYDAY HANIF: I was thinking we should have a conversation about what we do every day. How it produces work we couldn't have done separately. I couldn't have done all these blogs without you. You really pushed me. There's one blog we wrote about

Όλα όσα θέλεις να ξέρεις για τις υποκλοπές (αλλά ντρέπεσαι να ρωτήσεις) insidestory.gr/article/ola-os…

Lots of good debate about virus transmission, yet it's dwarfed by mis/disinformation and lack of nuance, allowing eejits to dismiss the precautionary principle, or, worse, re-run 1980s bigotted attitudes🤬 Viruses don't fit easily into boxes. So, nuances of transmission, a 🧵

ICYMI #LongCovid is a defining crisis of our time Long Covid affects at least 400 million people globally with an economic cost of $1 trillion/yr Addressing Long Covid requires a coordinated—but so far absent—response strategy Our review Nature Medicine nature.com/articles/s4159…

Για όσους πιστεύουν ότι τα παιδιά δεν παθαίνουν long covid…. Εδώ, η μέχρι στιγμής πιο εμπεριστατωμένη μελέτη που διαλύει την ανεμελιά τους. Θέλω να δω πως θα δικαιολογεί ο οποιοσδήποτε «υπεύθυνος» από δω και στο εξής την έλλειψη προστασίας στα σχολεία. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Νέοι δείκτες για την διάγνωση του Long Covid: Μια προ-δημοσίευση από το εργαστήριο της Ακίκο Ιβαζάκι στο Γέηλ συνδέει την αυτοάνοση απόκριση που σε κάποιες περιπτώσεις παρατηρείται μετά από μόλυνση με SARS-CoV2 με τα νευρολογικά συμπτώματα του Long Covid. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Massive Attack live in Bristol tonight. Gig of a lifetime.

I am writing in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists about the new mpox variant that is taking off in Africa and caused WHO to declare a public health emergency of international concern. But the WHO plan for stopping it isn’t realistic, and major issues are ignored 1/n thebulletin.org/2024/08/a-new-…

People outside Greece were thinking that the current government would fall after the exposure of the secret services spying on the opposition or the coverup of the train collision in Tempi or the refugee shipwreck off Peloponnesus. But not without an independent judiciary. 👇

I am pleased to inform you of the publication of the Drosophila immunity handbook. The pdf version of the book is free, or a physical version of the book is available for purchase at EPFL press.epflpress.org/produit/1514/9…

"Nothing in vector biology makes sense except in the light of VectorBase... and now the lights are going out. 💡🔌 #SaveVectorBase

My commentary on the closure of VectorBase. Join me in rallying for its sustainable continuation. Comment, repost, and circulate. Let’s ensure this vital resource remains accessible for our global #VectorBiology research community.

STARMAN JONES One of the first, and most important pieces of advice David Bowie ever gave me - and this was in the early 1990s - was to make sure I noted down the names of secretaries and assistants I came into contact with. This would help me later, he explained, when I needed

Almost unbelievable: a brain microbiome in a healthy bony fish. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Two years ago, we demonstrated that the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic likely began at the Huanan Market via zoonosis resulting from the wildlife trade. Many unanswered questions remained about the animals themselves. Some answers, out today in Cell. cell.com/cell/fulltext/…