mostly bio facts

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sometimes serious accounts follow this one & regular reminder I share it with three other people, the content is trash, & you should follow my real account if you know who I am sometimes I'll rant about cell therapies at 2 am but I always delete it okay thank you serious people
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life lately
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fun fact- female mice have 3-7% of their inactivated x chromosome escape/expressed whereas in human women it’s 12 TO 30 PERCENT also the old test for female blood in the 50s was drumstick barr bodies in at least 6 of 500 neutrophils but then a quarter of women didn’t meet that
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they told us in math class in the early 2000s that we wouldn’t have a calculator with us always and 20 years later my friends argue whether or not my pocket phone contains a conscious machine god
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it's one bag travel and an optimized backpack addiction
they should make a drug that makes you love packing your suitcase
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zeta retweeted
Found an absolute fashion banger on amazon
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guess which animal does NOT have mitochondria with their mtDNA arranged in mini circles/distinct separate circular chromosomes inside the mitochondria
19% rotifers
21% parasitic fish cnidarians
20% pale cyst nematodes
40% human body lice
281 votes • Final results
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BROTHER FINALLY DECIDED I HAVE MY ACT TOGETHER IN LIFE ENOUGH TO BE GODPARENT TO NEW NEPHEW!!!!! FOURTH TIME’S THE CHARM
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underdiscussed background to GLPs is the lack of murine work that fueled its success - anglerfish? yes! gila monsters? yes! mouse ko models? luckily no!!!
GLPs came to us through NIH grants funding basic research gaps in our understanding of insulin secretion and glucagon production in the 80s/Svetlana Mojsov and Joel Habener at Mass Gen
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easily the most reckless thing I do wrt biosecurity is just assume all my sick friends w/colds and I have the same thing before meeting up like a roving outdoor leper colony
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lol sclerostin inhibitors rebuilding my mom’s skeleton and GLPs solving the obesity crisis and gene therapies that keep SMA kids alive and at little league practice is 1e283x cooler than a flying car, idk where you’ve been in biotech lately
Biotech, can we please do cooler stuff
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sorry for negative tweets, I’m like in the last stage of some viral plague ironically
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everyone is like downtrodden abt xbi rn but I think if you don’t keep up with basic research advancements or don’t keep your eyes open to all the things around you that are RADICALLY different from a few decades ago- you are blind to the v beautiful reality of ongoing progress
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how you gotta cross the street now
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crazy how much we take our lungs for granted
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業者さんに(わ!シロクマ!)って言われた
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I have decided to live and I have decided viruses aren’t real, all of it has been an illusion also did you guys know fevers burn like two to three hundred kCal a day- nature’s reta
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19. r&d in dermatology should be way more adventurous, like it's kind of insane how little innovation there is given the intelligence of the people who go into it and funding that is a way more sustainable revenue generation setup than like emotional pleas about x condition
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(you will be poor tho, phd is good for salary ceilings)
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32. the people who genuinely change how we do science are frequently way more important than the people who do science sorry (I have a related tale but I can’t tell it here) even though rubber hitting the road for solid data is still the value creation
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