Randy Kerstetter

#PlantBiology, #genomics, #ProteinEngineering, #biotechnology, #microbiology, #UW, #UCBerkeley, #UPenn, #Rutgers, #dad, #scifi, my opinions

[Randy Kerstetter @randa11k]

@AlexRakitko @OmicsOmicsBlog So, an older sibling calling their younger sibling a “mutant” is not entirely inaccurate?

[Randy Kerstetter @randa11k]

@NatureBiotech But, genomic double-strand break repair tends to integrate whatever DNA is handy. I am not sure “longer transgene expression” is always a good idea.

[Randy Kerstetter @randa11k]

@TeamTrick2 @krassenstein Children, sick, disabled, elderly, and sometimes their primary care givers make up the majority.

[Randy Kerstetter @randa11k]

@COag_guy @simonmaechling I don’t know. How much?
I have seen little evidence of his motivation being personal financial gain.

[Randy Kerstetter @randa11k]

@COag_guy @simonmaechling Don’t you find it even a little sus that the companies making billions selling fossil fuels continue to profit while we all watch weather become more extreme year on year?

[Randy Kerstetter @randa11k]

@KentsisResearch @OmicsOmicsBlog @slavov_n PhiX is the easiest thing to sequence. We need a new spike-in standard that reflects the challenging DNA motifs to really assess what “whole genome” sequencing means.

[Randy Kerstetter @randa11k]

This is a great model for reimagining how truly beneficial economic opportunities can be structured.

[Peg Moore.eth @_Peg_Moore]

$5 prescription glasses!! Imagine never having to choose who gets glasses in the family?! 👓

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Andrew Sullivan: "I do not care about the economy if the government in this country claims it can break down anyone's doors, seize anyone with no due process, put them on a plane, and send them to a foreign jail... The last person who did that in this country was called George III."

[Randy Kerstetter @randa11k]

This looks interesting: Regulated Degradation of RNA and Proteins: The Dr. Paul Janssen Award Symposium https://t.co/2C8hgG9Vun

[Randy Kerstetter @randa11k]

If the president is immune from prosecution, why does he need to legalize corruption? Justice can still go after the other parties involved.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

I went to the Senate floor to lay out for my colleagues the stunning story of brazen, open corruption during the first 6 weeks of the Trump presidency.

I think it's a story everyone needs to know.

1/ So a🧵with the highlights from the speech.

[Randy Kerstetter @randa11k]

Quite a useful list of “rules” to help make better decisions.

[Clint Murphy @IAmClintMurphy]

A “Razor” is a rule of thumb that simplifies decision making.

Here are 16 Razors every person should know:

[Randy Kerstetter @randa11k]

@krassenstein More advanced democracies have ranked choice voting which favors candidates with views less representative of the extremes of their political parties toward those in the middle.

[Randy Kerstetter @randa11k]

@CellCellPress Important work elucidating autoimmune sex bias factors. One note: wild type controls were given water, not DOX, so any potential contributions from microbiome interactions could potentially be obscured.

[Randy Kerstetter @randa11k]

New approach can potentially leverage plastic trash to detoxify hazardous chemicals!
https://t.co/44ZmzPZdZD

[Randy Kerstetter @randa11k]

What happens in a Petri dish doesn’t transfer to real world patients.

[bioRxiv @biorxivpreprint]

Nonspecific membrane bilayer perturbations by ivermectin underlie SARS-CoV-2 in vitro activity https://t.co/AJOGtsOKM9 #bioRxiv

[Randy Kerstetter @randa11k]

@QuantaMagazine The lovely graphic perpetuates a common misunderstanding about exons - many exons do not code for protein. The dangly bits on the ends of precursor and mRNA in the cartoon (presumably UTRs or untranslated regions) are most definitely exonic, as are spliced long non-coding RNAs.

[Randy Kerstetter @randa11k]

Simple Set Game Proof Stuns Mathematicians https://t.co/wmAKngCTVF via @QuantaMagazine

[Randy Kerstetter @randa11k]

@dwidmaier @dr_alphalyrae Do you think it might be easier to “biologize” engineering? How much progress on getting machines to self-replicate and evolve over time?

[Randy Kerstetter @randa11k]

@GenomeLarry I hope you find the next phase of your journey just as fun & exciting as the last one has been! Congratulations!

[Randy Kerstetter @randa11k]

Ever have that feeling that someone or something is watching you? Well, it is.

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

Theoretical physicists have recently shown how the event horizons of black holes cause quantum states to collapse. https://t.co/hCJwySdrp0