Monthly Archives: January 2024

The State of COVID in D.C.*: Still High, but Another Big Decline

Posted on January 31, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

*And by D.C., I mean Alexandria, VA, because the publicly available D.C. data don’t seem to be collected anymore. Another very solid decline for Alexandria, VA: With a decline from 929 copies/ml to 723 copies/ml, we’re still seven times higher … Continue reading →

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Links 1/31/24

Posted on January 31, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: 454 Bio Unveils Revolutionary Open Source DNA Sequencing Platform This is what a happy, excited Arctic Fox sounds like Estimated number of lives directly saved by COVID-19 vaccination programs in the WHO European Region, December 2020 … Continue reading →

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Links 1/30/24

Posted on January 30, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Using Insurance Claims Data to Estimate Blastomycosis Incidence, Vermont, USA, 2011–2020 Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 Phables: from fragmented assemblies to high-quality bacteriophage genomes No cervical … Continue reading →

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A Failure of COVID Policy: The Nursing Home Vaccination Edition

Posted on January 30, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

While the carnage among the elderly from COVID is well known, I suspect it’s far less known that around one in six all of COVID deaths, not just the elderly occurred in those in nursing homes. That’s why it’s distressing, … Continue reading →

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Links 1/29/24

Posted on January 29, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Infertility: A common target of antivaccine misinformation campaigns Billions of cicadas will emerge in the U.S. this year in a rare double-brood event Gene Therapy Allows an 11-Year-Old Boy to Hear for the First Time Changing … Continue reading →

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Who Will Administer the U.S., Judges or People Who Know What They’re Doing?

Posted on January 29, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

You might have heard about a recent court case that will likely overturn what is known as Chevron deference, which holds courts should defer to the interpretation of the executive branch and its regulatory agencies when determining the will of … Continue reading →

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Links 1/28/24

Posted on January 28, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Sperm Whales Live in Huge, Distinct Clans Spread Across The Ocean A Counterintuitive Effect of Global Warming How Much of the World Is It Possible to Model? Dana-Farber retractions: meet the blogger who spotted problems in … Continue reading →

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Links 1/27/24

Posted on January 27, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Long COVID is associated with severe cognitive slowing: a multicentre cross-sectional study Tiny Fossils Reveal Dinosaurs’ Lost Worlds Why most of my papers just aren’t that exciting Biological and bioinformatic tools for the discovery of unknown … Continue reading →

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In Case You Missed It…

Posted on January 27, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

…a (very light posting) week of Mad Biologist posts: So Much for Learning How to Code The State of COVID in D.C.*: Still High, but a Big Decline

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Links 1/26/24

Posted on January 26, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Immune damage in Long Covid: Links between the complement and coagulation systems could lead to Long Covid therapies How smart was T. rex? Testing claims of exceptional cognition in dinosaurs and the application of neuron count … Continue reading →

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