Gary Schroth
Scientist in the field of Genomics and Next-Generation Sequencing, who also loves music, the SF Giants, 49ers, and Warriors! All tweets are my own.
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While We Wait: COVID-19 Research Beyond Vaccines - San Francisco Public Press
Scientists in San Francisco have made significant discoveries in recent months about the impacts of COVID-19 as well as prevention and treatment of the disease. For one thing, they’ve discovered how SARS-CoV-2 — scientific shorthand for the...
CDC: Nurses were largest proportion of health care workers hospitalized with COVID-19
While the report’s findings are disturbing, a study co-author expects the number of hospitalized health care workers — including nurses — to go down with time.
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CDC: Nurses were largest proportion of health care workers hospitalized with COVID-19 yahoo.com/lifestyle/cdc-… via @Yahoo
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Five coronavirus cases at UCSF prompt 28 workers to quarantine, 15 patients to be placed in isolation
Two patients and three health care workers at UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights tested positive for the coronavirus last week, and it appears the transmission occurred at the hospital, UCSF said Tuesday.
Evidence for 28 genetic disorders discovered by combining healthcare and research data
By integrating healthcare and exome-sequencing data from parent–offspring trios of patients with developmental disorders, 28 genes that had not previously been associated with developmental disorders were identified.
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Evidence for 28 genetic disorders discovered by combining healthcare and research data
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Coronavirus antibody prevalence falling in England, REACT study shows | Imperial News | Imperial College London
Tests on more than 365,000 people in England have shown that the antibody response to the virus that causes COVID-19 wanes over time.
Exact Sciences to Acquire Thrive Earlier Detection, Becoming a Leader in Blood-Based, Multi-Cancer Screening - Thrive
Brings Together Cancer Screening R&D Pioneers to Transform the Future of Cancer Diagnostics and Impact Lives Combines Thrive’s CancerSEEK with Exact Sciences’ Best-in-Class Platforms and Infrastructure to Accelerate Approval, Availability, and...
Why Wall Street is banking on a "blue wave"
Still some Trump love — Don't get fooled by GDP growth
Spike mutation D614G alters SARS-CoV-2 fitness
A spike protein mutation D614G became dominant in SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic1,2. However, the impact on viral spread and vaccine efficacy remains to be defined. Here, we engineer the D614G mutation in the USA-WA1/2020 strain and...
Scientists strongly back Joe Biden for US president in Nature poll
Readers cite climate change and the pandemic as their chief worries in the election.
Ryquell Armstead should be a starting running back for the Jags this season. COVID changed all that
Armstead, 23, has been hospitalized twice and isn't expected back this season.
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Ryquell Armstead should be a starting running back for the Jags this season. COVID changed all that sports.yahoo.com/nfl-ryquell-ar… via @Yahoo
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Trump administration pushes a rule to limit green investing
Fund managers say a new federal rule on environmental and social investing is being rushed.
Gary Schroth
Geez...the priorities of these guys are absurd.
Trump administration pushes a rule to limit green investing
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San Francisco's go-slow approach toward reopening amid the pandemic is paying off
San Francisco shut down early in the pandemic and later limited reopening. Now the city is the first urban center in California where the risk of infection is rated as minimal.
Complete mapping of mutations to the SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor-binding domain that escape antibody recognition
Antibodies targeting the SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor-binding domain (RBD) are being developed as therapeutics and make a major contribution to the neutralizing antibody response elicited by infection. Here, we describe a deep mutational scanning...
Intercampus Collaboration Awarded Grant to Develop Method for Diagnosing Urinary Tract Infection Using Cell-Free DNA
An intercampus research team at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell’s Ithaca campus has been awarded a five-year, $3.65 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a quick, inexpensive method for accurately diagnosing...
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Intercampus Collaboration Awarded Grant to Develop Method for Diagnosing Urinary Tract Infection Using Cell-Free DNA
Congrats to @mason_lab and your impressive collaborators!
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Virology, transmission, and pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2
### What you need to know
Since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in December 2019, there has been an unparalleled global effort to characterise the virus and the clinical course of disease. Coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19), caused by SARS-CoV-2,...
More Than 70 Science and Climate Journalists Challenge Supreme Court Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett
“Judge Coney Barrett has displayed a profound inability to understand the ecological crisis of our times, and in so doing she enables it.”
Map: Where the PG&E public safety power outages will be; 386,000 to go without power, officials say
Due to extreme fire weather conditions and a red flag warning running from Sunday to Tuesday across most of Northern California, PG&E announced late Friday that it will be shutting off power to…
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Map: Where the PG&E public safety power outages will be; 386,000 to go without power, officials say mercurynews.com/2020/10/23/map… via @mercnews
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Dr. Fauci says letting the coronavirus spread to achieve herd immunity is 'nonsense' and 'dangerous'
"Quite frankly that is nonsense," White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said of herd immunity against Covid-19.
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Quite frankly.
Dr. Fauci says letting the coronavirus spread to achieve herd immunity is 'nonsense' and 'dangerous'
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