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As the US begins its 5th wave with 59% vaccinated, Canada, with 76% vaccinated, shows no sign of increased spread Death rate 🇺🇸 5.3-fold 🇨🇦 Hospitalizations 🇺🇸3-fold 🇨🇦 New cases 🇺🇸 >4-fold🇨🇦 Our World in Data

The world has never been more peaceful, prosperous or healthy. But if you read the news you'd think the apocalypse just happened. Here's 10 charts on why it’s never been better to be alive and what it means going forward:

~Half the world is vaccinated against a virus that none of us had heard of two years ago. I hope the people who did that got super rich, and I am extremely grateful for their work. Dark that our politicians don't celebrate it. Far better villains for them to go after.

I don’t normally share anything personal but this my dad from a while back explaining to my daughter he signed the Beatles. Ordinary people do extraordinary things. Great decisions are made for the simplest reasons. “I figured if I like them this much other people might too” ❤️

Fun time taking photos with the Toor Lab! The Toor Lab investigates the relationship between RNA structure and biology. They also use organic chemistry to expand the universe of chemical modifications that can be added to RNA for therapeutics. rna.ucsd.edu

Downtown Kyiv, Saturday afternoon #Ukraine

58 years after the Epstein-Barr virus was first discovered, it's exciting to (finally) see some progress towards a vaccine. Gives some context about #SARSCoV2 and timing of Covid vaccines science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Science Translational Medicine @justsaysinmice

Under my predecessor, the deficit increased every single year he was president. Last year, the deficit was reduced by $350B. And this year, we're on track to cut the federal deficit by $1.5T—the biggest decline in debt ever in American history.

If you're looking for some very upbeat biomedical stuff, here it is erictopol.substack.com/p/a-turning-po…… Including the first time immunotherapy alone eliminated the need for chemotherapy, radiation and surgery

There is a story that I have been wanting to tell for a while regarding a scientific journey that started more than 6 years ago. It’s been a really eye-opening process and I hope it can serve as an inspiration to others, especially those starting their research careers. A 🧵...

Test flight? Done ✅ Reindeer health test? Passed ✅ Santa 🎅 isn’t the only person with an impossible mission this holiday season. Watch as Minister Alghabra clears Santa for flight this #Christmas. Happy Holidays! canada.ca/en/transport-c…

Congratulations to Tino and Ana from our lab on developing a simple, fast, and cheap method for the fluorescent labeling of RNA or DNA of any size. This chemistry can be easily adapted to add any functional group using a click reagent containing an alkyne.

Awesome news article of our DNAzyme %28catalytic DNA%29 work featured in "WVU Today". Special thanks to Linda Skidmore and Hannah Maxwell for putting this story together. #@advancedphoton #WVU #DNA #RNA wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2023/0…

Hey y'all our new paper is up! Let the PI-as-first-author-pearl-clutching begin! Much love & credit to my team Haller, Sol, and JP, and my sabbatical hosts Doug Black and Tracy Johnson Tracy Johnson biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations to Dan Haack and Boris Rudolfs on developing a general method for determining high-resolution cryo-EM structures of protein-free RNAs. Here we present the cryo-EM structure of the 86-nucleotide TPP riboswitch to better than 3 angstroms. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Today in Science Magazine we report how lipids specialize for life under the crushing pressures of the deep sea and what this means more broadly for the composition of cell membranes (1/n) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

My face when I become immune for all official acts, including wiping out the Jedi.

What do long noncoding RNAs actually look like? A hodgepodge of twisted #RNA elements on a string? You’d be right. Happy to share new paper on #MALAT1 NatureStructMolBiol led by Ilias Skeparnias w/Bou-Nader lab Dimitrios Anastasakis Markus Hafner Yun-Xing Wang Lab go.nature.com/4eLNyP4

Which candy bar best describes your collaboration with your closest work colleague? We asked 2023 medicine laureates Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó about how they first met. The two laureates' research enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.