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Human genetics; epigenetics; infectious disease; ageing; dementia. The usual stuff. Oh, Public Health too. Faculty at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Even with all the current uncertainty, we still have to get our papers out.

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I wrote an email in a work thread a couple of days ago that was so informative that today's meeting on the topic has been cancelled as it's "no longer necessary". You don't catch lightning in a bottle like that every day.

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🧬📝🚨 Out today: A genomics learning framework for undergraduates We hope this will be one more tool to help integrate genomics into undergraduate education by supporting evidence-based curriculum design with a set of standardized concepts. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:

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It's been known for a while that interbreeding with Neanderthals introduced immune response gene alleles into modern humans that increase resistance to some viruses. Looks like it may have been more important than we realised. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Oh, great. African trypanosomes can evolve to remove dependency on tsetse for transmission. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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