Moreno Colaiacovo 🇪🇺
@emmecola.github.io
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Bioinformatician and IT consultant - ITA/ENG
https://l.devol.it/@emmecola
pinned post!
#EU
law requires
#GMO
labeling when levels exceed 0.9% at the ingredient level. Our study shows that duplex
#sequencing
can reliably detect
#NGT
genome-edited DNA down to 0.1%, suggesting a potential alternative detection approach when
#PCR
assay design is not feasible. 🧬🔎
tinyurl.com/duplexNGT
about 2 months ago
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Darren Naish
3 days ago
This
#LochNessMonster
photo is doing the rounds on social media, accompanied by a fake story about it being real, and new, and attached to a specific eyewitness event. I see people on Facebook groups thinking that the photo is the 'real deal', sigh. However... 1/n
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Windows 10 support ends October 14th! 😱 Can't upgrade to
#Windows11
and don't want to buy a new computer? No worries: - Backup your files - Download Ubuntu
tinyurl.com/ubuntu24lts
- Flash it to USB stick with Balena Etcher - Boot, install and get your apps from Software Center Welcome to
#Ubuntu
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Download Ubuntu Desktop | Ubuntu
Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things.
https://tinyurl.com/ubuntu24lts
4 days ago
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Marco Galardini
7 days ago
just leaving this gem here :)
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A fascinating article by
@matthewcobb.bsky.social
from the Asimov press archives, reminding us that there is no such thing as a "central dogma" in molecular biology. It includes a brilliant thought experiment about how info could flow back into DNA (i.e. through environment-dependent gene editing)
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Francis Crick Was Misunderstood
The Central Dogma is not a
https://press.asimov.com/articles/crick
7 days ago
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When a man with
#Windows
10 meets a man with an
#Ubuntu
USB stick, the man with Windows 10 is a man with Ubuntu.
8 days ago
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Numbers that make you think: in the USA the
#homicide
rate is 10 times that of Italy. In 2023, there were 334 homicides in
#Italy
and 19,800 in the
#USA
; when you do the math, that's 0.57 cases per 100,000 inhabitants versus 5.9. Impressive!
9 days ago
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"We should insist on
#AI
that can collaborate with, say, doctors—as well as teachers, lawyers, building contractors, and many others—instead of AI that aims to automate them out of a job." 🤖 A Better Way to Think About AI - The Atlantic
@theatlantic.com
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A Better Way to Think About AI
AI can be used to automate tasks—and entire jobs. But it could also be designed to collaborate with humans. David Autor and James Manyika on why we should focus on the latter:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-job-loss-human-enhancement-google/683963/
15 days ago
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Della mia mini vacanza al Lago di
#Iseo
, porto a casa nel cuore il bellissimo Parco protetto dei Taxodi, un piccolo bosco di
#cipressi
delle paludi originari del Nord America. Perché dalla Louisiana al fiume Oglio è un attimo! Si trova a Paratico, Brescia.
26 days ago
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Le nuove tecniche di editing genomico stanno rivoluzionando l'agricoltura, ma hanno creato un paradosso: mentre le modifiche genetiche diventano sempre più facili da implementare, i metodi per riconoscerle si scontrano con limiti tecnici apparentemente insormontabili. 🌾
emmecola.it/mutazioni-in...
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Mutazioni invisibili (o quasi)
Le nuove tecniche di editing genomico stanno rivoluzionando l'agricoltura, permettendo modifiche precise del DNA delle piante con una sem...
https://emmecola.it/mutazioni-invisibili-o-quasi
29 days ago
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È nato un nuovo blog 🙂
#chimere
#biotech
#AI
emmecola.it
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Chimere
Appunti di tecnoscienza
https://emmecola.it/
about 1 month ago
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"La traiettoria resta quella di una regressione verso la media: un linguaggio che rinuncia a complessità e varietà in favore di prevedibilità e uniformità, in cui la distanza fra parlare degli esseri umani e delle macchine si riduce fino a diventare impercettibile."
@cattiviscienziati.bsky.social
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Le parole dell'AI e l'evoluzione del linguaggio
Da sempre il progresso tecnologico guida le trasformazioni della lingua e opera come filtro. I modelli generativi lo fanno più in grande, creando direttamente i contenuti linguistici ...
https://www.ilfoglio.it/scienza/2025/08/13/news/le-parole-dell-ai-e-l-evoluzione-del-linguaggio-7999019/
about 1 month ago
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So
#GPT5
is not
#AGI
. But maybe we should ask ourselves: do we really need AGI? 🤔 (sorry, I've just read
#AI2027
)
about 1 month ago
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It's the model everyone had been waiting for for months. It's the company leading the
#AI
sector, backed by talented data scientists and an army of investors. And yet, this is a chart that
#OpenAI
showed off yesterday to celebrate the release of
#GPT5
. How embarrassing!
#horrorchart
about 1 month ago
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Scopro ora, leggendo un suo libro, che quando lavoravo per
#Genomnia
avrei potuto analizzare il DNA di Giuseppe
#Remuzzi
. Alla fine ha preferito rivolgersi alla concorrenza! 😅
about 2 months ago
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I am getting more and more interested in
@proton.me
's battle against US big tech. Now we have
#ProtonAuthenticator
, which is a simple TFA app but it's nth attempt to annoy tech giants. I wonder if they are really making a dent in
#Google's
dominance!
about 2 months ago
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#EU
law requires
#GMO
labeling when levels exceed 0.9% at the ingredient level. Our study shows that duplex
#sequencing
can reliably detect
#NGT
genome-edited DNA down to 0.1%, suggesting a potential alternative detection approach when
#PCR
assay design is not feasible. 🧬🔎
tinyurl.com/duplexNGT
about 2 months ago
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Our paper on duplex sequencing for the detection of genome-edited plants is out! 🧬 The EU law requires labeling of food/feed where
#GMOs
are above 0.9% at the ingredient level. PCR can detect such small quantities, but new genomic techniques like
#CRISPR
make it harder. What about sequencing? 🧵1/
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A duplex sequencing approach for high-sensitivity detection of genome-edited plants
In this paper, we have evaluated a targeted high-throughput massive parallel sequencing approach for detecting single nucleotide mutations or small ge…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666566225000395
about 2 months ago
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Michael Le Page
about 2 months ago
It's likely that different species of plant-eating dinosaurs 🦕 herded together for protection like many modern animals do - and now we have some tentative evidence for this, in a set of 76-million-year-old tracks 👣 discovered in Canada 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2489...
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Remarkable set of tracks suggests different dinosaurs herded together
Late Cretaceous dinosaur tracks found in Canada might have been made by different species walking together, but the evidence is far from conclusive
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2489535-remarkable-set-of-tracks-suggests-different-dinosaurs-herded-together/
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The first twin study to assess sense of
#humor
heritability reveals that no, humor production ability is not genetic. Participants were asked to write funny captions to cartoons, which were then evaluated by judges in a blind test. This method was inspired by a The New Yorker caption contest 🙂
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Heritability of Humor Production Ability — A Twin Study | Twin Research and Human Genetics | Cambridge Core
Heritability of Humor Production Ability — A Twin Study
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twin-research-and-human-genetics/article/heritability-of-humor-production-ability-a-twin-study/3F02C5C9428EAEFE7865AE1A06087B85#
2 months ago
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Enrico Bucci
2 months ago
TUTTO QUELLO CHE AVRESTE SEMPRE VOLUTO CHIEDERE SULL'ACQUA INFORMATA Juanne Pili, per Open, riassume bene tutta la vicenda, e pubblica in anteprima anche l'analisi fatta da me con tre colleghi della cosiddetta "sperimentazione di Torino" su insalata, mais e riso.
www.open.online/2025/07/21/p...
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Perché la Valle d'Aosta ha annullato la ricerca sulla cosiddetta «acqua informata»
Cos’è l’acqua informata e perché è riuscita a conquistare un’intera regione nonostante sia priva di fondamento scientifico.
https://www.open.online/2025/07/21/perche-valle-aosta-annullato-ricerca-cosiddetta-acqua-informata-fc/
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Saloni
2 months ago
Recently I learnt that EMBL-EBI has a free online course about AlphaFold — how it works, strengths and limitations, how to use it — and it's very good! There are also little quizzes and interactives.
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl...
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AlphaFold - A practical guide
AlphaFold - A practical guide
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/online/courses/alphafold/
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I knew about organoids, but
#bodyoids
are totally new to me: brainless human bodies that can provide any organ for transplant (except the brain, I guess). They don't exist yet, but they still scare me 😅
2 months ago
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Dear
@anthropic.com
, as a European customer, I would also like to choose where my data should be processed. Why give this option only to American customers? 🤷🏻♂️
2 months ago
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I discovered that 54% of my followers prefer to write in English, and only 42% prefer Italian (on
#Mastodon
it's the opposite: Italian 65%, English 31%). From now on I'll write here in
#English
🇬🇧, and on Mastodon in Italian. The topics too will be different, this account will be more "scientific".
2 months ago
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Mi sono sempre trovato bene con
#Tidal
, ma l'azienda norvegese è stata acquisita da una società americana e ora ha sede negli USA. È il momento di sostenere i servizi europei e provare
#Deezer
🇫🇷🎶
2 months ago
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"La tecnica viene definita “a tre persone” perché il bambino ha nel nucleo delle proprie cellule il
#DNA
ereditato dai due genitori, e nel resto della cellula il DNA mitocondriale di una donatrice." 🧬
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Nascere col DNA di tre persone - Il Post
Nel Regno Unito otto bambini sono stati concepiti con due ovuli e uno spermatozoo per evitare malattie ereditarie
https://www.ilpost.it/2025/07/17/bambini-fecondazione-in-vitro-a-tre-mitocondri-regno-unito/
2 months ago
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La seconda maglia verde chiaro dell'
#Italia
è bellissima (ma quella della
#Norvegia
ha un font pazzesco).
#NORITA
#EuropeiFemminili
🇳🇴🇮🇹
2 months ago
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Un nuovo studio pubblicato su Nature Microbiology ha scoperto che alcune specie di batteri intestinali assorbono i temibili
#PFAS
come spugne. Ottima notizia! 🦠 Human Gut Bacteria Can Gather Up PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ | Scientific American
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Could Gut Bacteria Help You Flush Away Your PFAS Woes?
When tested on their own and in mice, these bacterial strains from the human microbiome show promise in accumulating PFAS
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-gut-bacteria-can-gather-up-pfas-forever-chemicals/
2 months ago
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#JurassicWorld
è un buon film d'azione, ha anche un po' dello spirito originario del primo film. Ma agli occhi di uno che da bambino ha assaporato la magia e il fascino di
#JurassicPark
, questi film sembrano sempre più simili a Godzilla e King Kong. Mr. DNA, mi manchi tantissimo! 🦕🧬
2 months ago
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Digital sovereignty can't be bargained away
#EuroStack
www.politico.eu/article/digi...
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Digital sovereignty can’t be bargained away
The European Commission has tools, public support and a mandate to act on Big Tech. Trading that away for short-term calm would be a costly mistake.
https://www.politico.eu/article/digital-sovereignty-us-brussels-belgium-trade-talks-tech/
2 months ago
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Le nostre attività online dipendono in gran parte da servizi americani, ma siamo sicuri di voler lasciare tutti i nostri dati in mano alle
#bigtech
USA? Le alternative europee esistono e spesso sono di buona qualità, ma sono poco conosciute. Vi aiuto a scoprirle! 🇪🇺 1/
2 months ago
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"Europeans need to realize that America is not withdrawing from
#Europe
, but is actually trying to subjugate it. Europeans need to take
#Trump
’s interference in Europe’s democracies much more seriously, and fight back." 🇪🇺
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
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Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory
On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, ...
https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar0ec480cc
3 months ago
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Qualcuno dice che
#Trump
potrebbe ricattare l'Europa con i servizi
#digitali
, e se succedesse
#Europa
si piegherebbe subito. Ma perché questa mancanza di orgoglio? Senza social e cloud americani sarebbe difficile ma non impossibile: le alternative europee esistono, basterebbe promuoverle di più. 🇪🇺
3 months ago
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Kristian G. Andersen
3 months ago
SAGO Report is out: 1️⃣ No new data in report 2️⃣ Not bioweapon, man-made, or engineered 3️⃣ All scientific evidence points to zoonosis 4️⃣ No evidence for lab leak 5️⃣ New evidence could swing the conclusion In other words, what we concluded in April, 2020. Five years later.
share.google/4I8ac1DJMZOM...
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WHO Scientific advisory group issues report on origins of COVID-19
The WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a panel of 27 independent, international, multidisciplinary experts, today published its report on the origins of SARS-CoV-...
https://share.google/4I8ac1DJMZOMdN0Pk
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The new edition is on sale!
#ITsupport
3 months ago
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The new edition is on sale!
#ITsupport
3 months ago
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Se
#Inter
vendesse Lautaro/Thuram e giocasse con i fratelli
#Esposito
in attacco, forse perderebbe in qualità ma guadagnerebbe in marketing. Gemelli Derrick vibes! ⚽
3 months ago
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"Indeed, everything on the menu was not quite what it seemed: eggs that were spherilated tomatoes, cream sauce made from algae, meat derived from yeast, and all manner of mushrooms."
#food
@asimovpress.bsky.social
press.asimov.com/articles/foo...
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A Night of Food Futurism
A science fiction story brought to life through a pro-GMO dinner.
https://press.asimov.com/articles/food-futurism
3 months ago
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Esci alle 6:30 per cercare il fresco e incontri un
#cervovolante
3 months ago
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Ho visto il documentario
#KissTheGround
sulla rigenerazione del suolo. Molto interessante, anche se non capisco perché devono sempre mettere in mezzo gli
#OGM
: il problema non sono quasi mai le biotecnologie, quanto piuttosto le monocolture. 🌱
3 months ago
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Prendi un
#robot
, mettici un po' di
#AI
e vedi un po' cosa succede. Bella puntata di
#Crash
sui robot in fase di sviluppo: quanto siamo vicini agli scenari da
#fantascienza
? 🤖
pca.st/episode/7e15...
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L'invasione dei robot maggiordomi
https://pca.st/episode/7e15954d-b49d-4f38-8a6d-85a15143595a
3 months ago
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Attenzione alle TRUFFE! Oggi mi è arrivata questa mail. Si tratta ovviamente di una truffa perché il mittente usa un dominio di posta greco, e le autorità non mandano documenti ufficiali via Google Drive 😓
3 months ago
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Avereggiare
#ChatGPT
3 months ago
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Anna Meldolesi
3 months ago
Una delle questioni più spinose per il futuro delle piante editate, le cosiddette NGT o TEA. Se sono simili alle piante convenzionali, che tipo di diritti di proprietà intellettuale vanno applicati? Ha senso vietare i brevetti come vorrebbe il Parlamento europeo? Che margini di compromesso ci sono?
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The JRC 🇪🇺 has published the Generative
#AI
Outlook Report! It is a massive document aimed at informing policy-makers about technical, economic and societal aspects related to
#GenAI
. I suggest going quickly through it, I'm sure you will find some interesting sections to read.
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Generative AI Outlook Report
This Outlook report, prepared by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), examines the transformative role of Generative AI (GenAI) with a specific emphasis on the European Union. It hig...
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC142598
3 months ago
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Interessante l'esito del
#referendum
sulla
#cittadinanza
a
#Bolzano
: nessuno deve essere italiano, né noi né loro! 😅
3 months ago
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C'è chi pensa che gli immigrati e la sostituzione etnica porteranno il popolo italiano all'estinzione. Io credo che saranno gli italiani stessi, con il loro disinteresse e menefreghismo, a portarci all'estinzione.
#referendum
3 months ago
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I have updated my CV!
#bioinformatics
#magic
4 months ago
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"A selected encyclopedia of major gene-editing systems, together with illustrated diagrams."
#crispr
#genomeediting
www.asimov.press/p/a-visual-g...
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A Visual Guide to Genome Editors
A selected encyclopedia of major gene-editing systems, together with illustrated diagrams.
https://www.asimov.press/p/a-visual-guide-to-genome-editors?triedRedirect=true
4 months ago
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E se
#SARSCoV2
fosse in grado di infettare i batteri dell'intestino? 🦠 Risultati sorprendenti quelli ottenuti da questi ricercatori, se fossero confermati cambierebbero completamente ciò che sappiamo sul virus.
f1000research.com/articles/11-...
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F1000Research Article: Evidence of SARS-CoV-2 bacteriophage potential in human gut microbiota.
Read the latest article version by Mauro Petrillo, Maddalena Querci, Carlo Brogna, Jessica Ponti, Simone Cristoni, Peter V Markov, Andrea Valsesia, Gabriele Leoni, Alessandro Benedetti, Thierry Wiss, ...
https://f1000research.com/articles/11-292
4 months ago
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