A baby named KJ, who was born with a rare genetic disorder – CPS1 deficiency – is healed thanks to doctors at the @ChildrensPhila who administered the world’s first personalized gene-editing treatment. The research team used base editing, a gene-editing method invented by HHMI Investigator @davidrliu and his lab at @Harvard University in 2016.
Earlier this year, Liu received the @brkthroughprize for developing both base editing and prime editing. These gene-editing technologies enable the correction or replacement of virtually any genetic mutation, including those that cause countless human genetic diseases.
Read more about Liu's work here: https://t.co/NlE25O7wJR
Exciting news! @wc_ratcliff and I published an essay last week in @Nature reviewing the substantial contributions of 'long-term' studies to evolutionary biology
https://t.co/ockiXJTVrv
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Agreed! That's why I wrote ggpubfigs, a ggplot2 extension that *only colorblind-friendly color palettes.
Easily make your figures colorblind-friendly with ggpubfigs! https://t.co/frQgsl7zjP
Thank you all for your responses. To summarize, these are free/open source alternatives for preparation of scientific illustrations: https://t.co/iIPktbSUcG, https://t.co/2xfXwnVh3u, https://t.co/1se0qHf67l, https://t.co/oRl65xgVG1
Historically redlined neighborhoods in four of California’s largest cities have significantly lower levels of native and non-native wildlife biodiversity compared to their greenlined counterparts, according to a new @PNASNews study led by @EstienCesar.
https://t.co/kSNwVZiqSv
Have you ever wondered how seals sleep at sea?
The last chapter of my dissertation, now published in Science, illustrates the intricate sleep-spiraling behavior of northern elephant seals.
https://t.co/OOLhigq6CU
New in @Nature! In the first year of the pandemic, we saw a large/abrupt spike in the percent of Black & nonwhite people incarcerated in state prisons https://t.co/HncXuwOcbg
A key driver: pervasive differences in sentence length by race
@elizabhinton@big_data_kane@svscarpino
Application are open for the REU program at @RMBLGothic! A great opportunity to do funded research in the magical rockies. I am accepting undergrad students for projects with bumble bees and climate change (and maybe microbes)! #REU