Ryan Hisner

Fantastic review on chronic SARS-CoV-2 infections by virological superstars Richard Neher & Alex Sigal in Nature Microbiology. I’ll do a short overview, outline a couple minor quibbles, & defend the honor of ORF9b w/some stats & 3 striking sequences from the past week. 1/64

Thank you! 🇲🇿 Mozambique now joins the list of countries where #BA32 has been detected - alongside 🇿🇦 South Africa, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇳🇱 The Netherlands & 🇺🇸 USA. 🌍 Where will it pop up next? #Genomics #COVID19 #SARSCoV2

I own a medical billing company, so trust me when I tell you: The United States is the only country on Earth that employs more people in the business of blocking access to healthcare than it employs in the business of providing healthcare. You got suckered. And it shows.

Important insights into FCoV-23 cell entry from the #veeslerlab Freely available: rdcu.be/evO93

Most recently, researchers found that airborne particulate matter accumulates in the lymph nodes of our lungs, turning them black & leading to age-related decline in immune function. We are destroying our immune systems by failing to clean the air. 4/7 nature.com/articles/s4159…

The effect of unclean air in the brain is particularly disturbing. Dirtier air is tied to higher risk of dementia and Alzheimer's, worse performance in school, & other cognitive ailments. This article from PNAS is essential reading. 5/7 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

"Then when [Kepler] at last thought he had the values right, he verified the orbit—and found disagreements amounting to eight minutes of arc between certain observed positions and those predicted by his theory. That was a very small amount...."