Nick Brain

Passion for life science esp genetics & precision medicine. Love the great outdoors, natural history, Formula One & food.

[Nick Brain @NickBrain01]

@KevinKaichuang How does that compare to professions in general? I’d expect more kids do profession ‘x’ if their parents did profession ‘x’ too. Profession is somewhat heritable - I was aware of science as a career because my dad was a scientist.

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@jimmyraymail @LNallalingham Divide all the numbers by ten, then, before you punch them into your calculator. You’ll get the same answer.

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@charliersmith1 @parkrunUK I’m so sorry to hear it is so tough right now. Be damn proud of getting to parkrun! We’ve experienced with our daughter that when you’re way down, it takes all the energy you have to do the smallest things. Sending you props & hopefully a sense that in this world people care.

[Nick Brain @NickBrain01]

@FrogTape why so much plastic landfill for one roll of masking tape? Sort it out please. I’ll be avoiding your brand until your packaging enters the 21st century

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@Lunatic__Fringe @VivekGRamaswamy Life saving drugs - not a joke. Trying to tweak a human’s very complex biochemistry very specifically w/out affecting anything else is just hard & you have one little molecule to do it with. Then throw in that we’re all different. 2 mile sniper shot is easy by comparison.

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@Lunatic__Fringe @VivekGRamaswamy An oft repeated myth Bob. New drugs don’t get a licence (from gov) unless clinical trial evidence proves them safer/better than on-market drugs. Cancer drugs rightly get headlines on side effects - their job is to kill cancer cells that “look” v. like normal cells - it’s inexact

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@realYubingHou @VivekGRamaswamy Aravind is right. Manufacture is not the cost problem to solve. R&D cost is + not all R&D programs successfully develop a new drug that is safer/better than what’s on market (a regulatory requirement) so new drug sales have to cover cost of R&D that does not find a new drug.

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Just got a great deal on new car tyres @blackcircles - check them out at https://t.co/caYQiTEwbe /#buyblackcircles

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@British_Airways BA994 LHR-BER - 2 hr wait for bags. Are they still at Heathrow?

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@TEXTILE_FIBER Have you ever done a Western, Jay?

[Oxford Nanopore @nanopore]

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[Nick Brain @NickBrain01]

@JFG_78 @MercedesAMGF1 You nailed it JFG. It wasn’t corruption. It was poor decision-making in pursuit of spectacle at expense of sport.

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@sa6ampas @DavidVeillon5 @UniverCurious ���� the shadows are on the wrong side of the objects. This is a CGI animation. Oh, and the sun shines in all directions 🤣

[Nick Brain @NickBrain01]

How can OncoScan CNV assays be used to identify relevant and informative copy number changes in solid tumors? Find out in this on-demand webinar. #thermofisheremp https://t.co/gpxowBNGCr

[Nick Brain @NickBrain01]

Cancer Genomics: What We Can Learn from Africa - watch the latest webinar in the Predictive Genomics series exploring polygenic risk scores and population genomic stratification #thermofisheremp https://t.co/3xMRi9Nnkc

[Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News @GENbio]

Glowing Bacteria and Microfluidics Combined to Help Reduce Antibiotic Prescribing: https://t.co/2WDINU0r3T

[Thermo Fisher @thermofisher]

Hear experts in IVF research describe the benefits of applying new NGS technologies in PGT-A, PGT-M and expanded carrier screening in their reproductive workflows.
Register now - https://t.co/rcf1817fLX

[Nick Brain @NickBrain01]

Data on 500,000 people containing everything from genomic data to health info: how the UK Biobank is helping #SARSCoV2 research. Read more. #thermofisheremp https://t.co/Rw9fDRROHp

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Explore technologies such as Sanger and next-generation sequencing, qPCR/dPCR, and microarray analysis: the Genetic Analysis for All webinar series. #thermofisheremp https://t.co/qbdChalLyB

[Nick Brain @NickBrain01]

Which SNP markers are important to assess #COVID19 host #genetics and susceptibility? Find out in this webinar. #thermofisheremp https://t.co/Tygb4p7Ruk