Sharu Paul

Groundbreaking Ebola vaccination trial launches today in Uganda

In a global first, Uganda’s Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners today launched a first-ever vaccine trial for Ebola from the Sudan species of the virus, and at an unprecedented speed for a randomized vaccine trial in an emergency.🧵

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RIP blood brain barrier & brain trauma grants

04.02.2025 02:18 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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SCNBase

The soybean cyst nematode genomics database has been updated as of last night. SCNBase.org now has all 9 early release H. glycines genomes and annotations. All files are downloadable and accessible through BLAST, feature search, and Jbrowse. The pan-genome paper is coming soon! #science #genomics

27.11.2024 18:08 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Turkeys have 80 chromosomes. Humans have 46. We don't know the biological significance of the chromosome numbers. All we know is changing the number changes the biology.

26.11.2024 23:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Unlike XX/XY in Humans, Birds have ZZ/ZW system. There's more, males are homogametic ZZ, and females are heterogametic ZW.

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Whales are more closely related to cows than cows are to horses

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