Lung Gene Therapy

Retired gene therapist affiliated to the University of Edinburgh. Member of Strategy Group of UK Respiratory Gene Therapy Consortium. Opinions mine.

[Lung Gene Therapy @CFGT_Edinburgh]

Note profile update. Unlikely to post here again, but active on Bluesky https://t.co/X3p9Wyes3c

[Lung Gene Therapy @CFGT_Edinburgh]

Note profile update. Unlikely to post here again, but active on Bluesky https://t.co/X3p9Wyes3c

[Lung Gene Therapy @CFGT_Edinburgh]

Will the last person on Twitter please turn off the lights?

Mastodon refuge in place at @[email protected]

[Lung Gene Therapy @CFGT_Edinburgh]

I'm now more likely to read and post to Bluesky (https://t.co/dRnBErDZ2G) than here or Mastodon. https://t.co/fAy4SV1WuV is simple to use & refreshingly sane (so far), with engagement rising rapidly. Try it, you don't need an invite.

[Lung Gene Therapy @CFGT_Edinburgh]

@fermatslibrary 20 years earlier, a toy mechanical computer was marketed which was able to do very simple programmable binary calculations. As a child, one borrowed from my science teacher gave me my first experience of computing.
https://t.co/WWlAwmKmv0

[Lung Gene Therapy @CFGT_Edinburgh]

@BristOliver I understand an update is stalin beta.

[Lung Gene Therapy @CFGT_Edinburgh]

@BristOliver ...and when the beard comes off, a tsar is shorn?

[Lung Gene Therapy @CFGT_Edinburgh]

@hallaboutafrica The Lake Kariba crisis was recently covered in the Guardian:

https://t.co/UvzfuQoFyr

[Lung Gene Therapy @CFGT_Edinburgh]

@JohnRentoul They seek him here: https://t.co/Rsy8O8DiTr

[Lung Gene Therapy @CFGT_Edinburgh]

@jbond The KP.2-adapted version was only MHRA approved on 10/10/24 and may not be available here for some time. You'll probably have received the older JN.1-adapted Comirnaty: I had an armful of LK8841 yesterday.
https://t.co/FIjBOeBkXz
https://t.co/sqze5nmBA2

[Lung Gene Therapy @CFGT_Edinburgh]

Don't want to be automatically opted in for AI and data mining here? Read on:

https://t.co/V8mrklZjRk

[Michael Hartl @mhartl]

I feel like this may prove to be the most prescient cartoon of the 21st century.

[Lung Gene Therapy @CFGT_Edinburgh]

@ATinyGreenCell With luck, you won't even need to add Taq.

[Dr. Sajad Alipour @SajadAlipour98]

Drimia maritima
Asparagaceae
Fars, Iran
Elevation: 1300m 
Yesterday, I visited this natural habitat for the first time. This habitat is located among the oak forests (Quercus brantii). You may not believe it, but yesterday, the temperature in that natural habitat reached 44 °c

[Lung Gene Therapy @CFGT_Edinburgh]

Curious that https://t.co/thebCiaXLd is very polite, but seldom useful.

[Lung Gene Therapy @CFGT_Edinburgh]

@klausenhauser I spent a few hours free time here during a visit to CH earlier this year -- a stunning collection, of interest to all ages.

[Pete Bankhead @petebankhead]

Let me introduce: InstanSeg 🦠🔬💻👩‍🔬

This *would* have been a short thread about Thibaut Goldsborough’s PhD work… but he solved too many problems.

Now it's a long thread about 2 preprints, a whole new approach to cell segmentation & #opensource software to make it easy to use

[Veera Rajagopal  @doctorveera]

First look at the genome sequence of Greenland shark to find possible clues that could explain their mind-boggling extreme lifespan of up to 400 years.

- 70% of the genome is repetitive elements
- many uniquely duplicated genes, many related to DNA repair pathway
- p53 is not duplicated, but the authors find some unique insertion mutation in the p53 sequence

Sahm et al. bioRxiv
https://t.co/KtvAKCvQmp

[Lung Gene Therapy @CFGT_Edinburgh]

I'm pro-EU, but I think its blanket stance against agricultural gene editing works against the public interest even outwith the EU:
https://t.co/9wvihjjbFP

[Tom Ellis @ProfTomEllis]

🚨My department here in London 🇬🇧 has an open faculty position in at any level, looking for a PI in food-related bioengineering and synthetic biology. This is a really exciting opportunity that closes on Sept 22. DM me if you want to apply! Please RT 🔁
https://t.co/SGedlO5GHI

[James Hall @hallaboutafrica]

Sand patterns. A desert view is ever-changing, etched by the wind, like this Sahara vista in Mauritania.
Mauritania should learn from Namibia further south on Africa's Atlantic coast and market its desert wonders to visitors.

[Lung Gene Therapy @CFGT_Edinburgh]

I am never this desperate for a random number.

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Here’s a method to generate random numbers using only your body
1) Without looking, pluck a small tuft of hair
2) Count the number of strands and divide by a small number k, taking the remainder.

This process approximates rolling a k-sided die 🎲