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Erick Loomis

@eloomis.bsky.social

Huge nerd for DNA sequencing and human genetics. Pretty big nerd for other things too.

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A thread with some new starter packs in genomics and bioinformatics 🧵 1/13...

15.11.2024 09:56 — 👍 123    🔁 55    💬 8    📌 9
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New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30

26.10.2024 17:45 — 👍 684    🔁 325    💬 27    📌 61
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Poem/1: AI rhyming clock This clock on your shelf, with e-paper display / Spins poems profound, in a whimsical way

Buying this clock to bring “There will come soft rains” to my house www.kickstarter.com/projects/gen...

30.01.2024 17:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have a lot of respect for what 23andMe has done as a consumer genetic product, but the gap between consumer and clinical is still depressingly large

01.09.2023 15:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
FDA Clears 23andMe BRCA1/2 Consumer Health Risk Report for 41 Additional Variants The 510(k) clearance will allow 23andMe to offer breast, ovarian, prostate, and pancreatic cancer risk assessments for a broader range of populations.

On the one hand, 41 is many more than just 3, on the other hand it’s still not close to the thousands of P/LP variants in BRCA1 and BRCA2…

01.09.2023 15:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ok, so I guess I’m on Bluesky now

23.08.2023 23:23 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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