After 5 years, 150k papers and 17 million genomes, here's what we learned about SARS-CoV-2 and viruses in general. It holds lessons for future pandemics - only if we listen. "We’re in a worse place in terms of pandemic prevention" @eddieholmes.bsky.social told me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Anyone been to Park Street lately? Me neither.

I wrote about Colossal's new woolly mouse (left), engineered with a mix of mammoth-inspired edits and mouse phenotypes. My story: www.nature.com/articles/d41.... 20+ years ago Jackson Lab bred a 'wooly' mouse (right) missing a gene called Fam83g. bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

This. Again, RFK Jr is lying and needs to be called out as a liar by the press. This is the first U.S. death *in 10 years*! So yeah, pretty damn unusual.

I feel so strongly about the need for evidence-based policy and a dogged defence of science I said it in 2020, and will reiterate it til the end of time. The world may change - our principles should not

This is indeed a great story from Ewen (Science magazine has reported on this too). Ewen makes it properly clear that there are many questions about the functionality (or not) of all these "mini-proteins". Many may turn out to be "junk peptides". BUT...

I wrote for @natureportfolio.bsky.social about 'dark proteins' encoded by our genomes. Once overlooked, they may be central to cancers, cellular biology and evolutionary innovation. As @sebastiaanvheesch.bsky.social told me: "There's new biology here." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hi palaeopeople - this new Robyn Pickering account is a fake. The real Prof Pickering is @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social This new account has an extra ‘bsky’ after the handle and started DM-ing me immediately after I followed it.

The 2024 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, who discovered microRNAs, a class of tiny RNA molecules that help to control how genes are expressed in multicellular organisms. Read the Nature article. 🧪