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.
Last synced from Twitter 2m ago
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.
Gary Schroth
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
21h
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
24h
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...
Gary Schroth
Intercampus Collaboration Awarded Grant to Develop Method for Diagnosing Urinary Tract Infection Using Cell-Free DNA
Congrats to @mason_lab and your impressive collaborators!
26h
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…
Gary Schroth
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
48h
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.
1
Gary Schroth
Quite frankly.
Dr. Fauci says letting the coronavirus spread to achieve herd immunity is 'nonsense' and 'dangerous'
48h
Horn Barbecue promises it's really, really, actually opening on Saturday
Horn Barbecue has finally cleared all of its permitting hurdles and plans to officially open for business in West Oakland on Saturday. Expect a line for Matt Horn’s brisket, tri-tip and pulled pork sandwiches.
Gary Schroth
OMG - this place looks good...
Horn Barbecue promises it's really, really, actually opening on Saturday
3d
Debunking the False Claim That COVID Death Counts Are Inflated
President Trump, a congressman and conspiracy fantasists have repeated the myth. But three kinds of evidence point to more than 218,000 U.S. deaths
Gary Schroth
Debunking the False Claim That COVID Death Counts Are Inflated scientificamerican.com/article/debunk… via @sciam
3d
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won a science-fair prize for research involving free radicals
In 2007, she entered a project on Caenorhabditis elegan (C. elegan) lifespan extension to the ISEF, with her findings indicating that "antioxidants could potentially help prevent degenerative illnesses induced by oxidative stress."
Why Face Shields And Plexiglass Barriers Don’t Block Coronavirus
Coronavirus is transmitted via aerosols, so face shields and plexiglass barriers won't stop you catching or spreading Covid.
Developing infectious disease surveillance systems
Lessons learnt from the current pandemic will be invaluable to tackle a potential second wave, however, gaps remain in our readiness to face future pandemics. At Nature Communications we wish to support further research providing insights into how...
Gary Schroth
Important Editorial from Nature...let's hope we maintain vigilance long after COVID is gone!
Developing infectious disease surveillance systems
3d