@UCCGenetics

@UCCGenetics1

Official Twitter home of the BSc in Genetics 4-year degree programme (CK405) at University College Cork

Joined September 2022

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@UCCGenetics@UCCGenetics1 · May 21

Congratulations to our class of 2025, who completed their vivas and received their provisional results yesterday. Best of luck with your future endeavours and please keep in touch! #UCC #Genetics #CK405 @UccMicrobiology @uccBEES @bioucc @SEFSUCC

UCCGenetics1's tweet image. Congratulations to our class of 2025, who completed their vivas and received their provisional results yesterday. Best of luck with your future endeavours and please keep in touch! #UCC #Genetics #CK405 @UccMicrobiology @uccBEES @bioucc @SEFSUCC

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@UCCGenetics@UCCGenetics1 · Apr 8

Successful de-extinction? bbc.com/news/articles/…

UCCGenetics1's tweet card. Independent experts say three white wolf puppies are not dire wolves, as claimed by US company Colossal

@UCCGenetics@UCCGenetics1 · Mar 20

Elisabeth Vrba obituary: palaeontologist who solved a problem that vexed Darwin nature.com/articles/d4158…

UCCGenetics1's tweet card. Nature - The biologist’s theories about how environments prompt rapid species evolution and extinction propelled her onto the world stage.

@UCCGenetics@UCCGenetics1 · Feb 27

The first successful in utero treatment for a rare genetic disorder nature.com/articles/d4158…

@UCCGenetics@UCCGenetics1 · Jan 9

We need to talk about human genome editing nature.com/articles/d4158…

UCCGenetics1's tweet card. Nature - In a few decades, gene-editing technologies could reduce the likelihood of common human diseases. Societies must use this time to prepare for their arrival.

@UCCGenetics@UCCGenetics1 · Dec 13

New information about modern human-Neanderthal interbreeding bbc.com/news/articles/…

@UCCGenetics@UCCGenetics1 · Dec 12

30 years since BRCA1 was sequenced, yet we are still not where we should be nature.com/articles/d4158…

UCCGenetics1's tweet card. Nature - Thirty years after the sequencing of the BRCA1 cancer-associated gene, access to genetic tests and awareness about its risks are still too limited.

@UCCGenetics@UCCGenetics1 · Nov 18

What to get the evolutionary biologist who has everything! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@UCCGenetics@UCCGenetics1 · Nov 13

Ancient DNA challenges prevailing interpretations of the Pompeii plaster casts cell.com/current-biolog…

UCCGenetics1's tweet card. Pilli et al. analyze genomic data from five 79 CE Vesuvius victims, debunking prior narratives about their identities and relationships. The study highlights the limitations of projecting modern...

@UCCGenetics@UCCGenetics1 · Nov 12

Bos primigenius (auroch) to Bos taurus: the domestication journey for modern cattle nature.com/articles/d4158…

@UCCGenetics@UCCGenetics1 · Nov 1

Hidden players: the bacteria-killing viruses of the gut microbiome nature.com/articles/d4158…

UCCGenetics1's tweet card. Nature - Viruses known as bacteriophages are difficult to study, but they are beginning to give up their secrets.

@UCCGenetics@UCCGenetics1 · Nov 1

Thirty years since the race to the BRCA1 gene nature.com/articles/d4158…

UCCGenetics1's tweet card. Nature - The discovery that ushered in a new era for cancer screening and therapy.

@UCCGenetics@UCCGenetics1 · Oct 14

The true identity of Christopher Columbus finally revealed? #ancientDNA #genomics bbc.com/news/articles/…

UCCGenetics1's tweet card. A new study shines light on a hotly contested centuries-old mystery.

@UCCGenetics@UCCGenetics1 · Oct 11

The #BScGenetics will have a stand and be presenting talks in the Western Gateway Building.

@UCCGenetics@UCCGenetics1 · Oct 11

For information about the BSc Genetics degree in @UCC, join us in the Western Gateway Building tomorrow for the UCC Open Day. There will be #Genetics talks in WGB_G02 at 10am, 12.15pm and 1.15pm Visit ucc.ie/openday for more info. @UCCResearch @SEFSUCC

@UCCGenetics@UCCGenetics1 · Oct 7

Congratulations to @garyruvkun and Viktor Ambros for winning the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their ground breaking work on micro RNAs. #miRNA helps control the expression of genes in our genome bbc.com/news/articles/…

UCCGenetics1's tweet card. US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun helped explain how genes work inside the human body.

@UCCGenetics@UCCGenetics1 · Sep 30

The genetic secrets of the United States’s privately owned tigers | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

UCCGenetics1's tweet card. Big cats that formerly lived in roadside zoos show surprising diversity—but may not be able to help wild populations

@UCCGenetics@UCCGenetics1 · Sep 13

Genomics helps rewrite the history of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) #archaeogenetics #GN4003 science.org/content/articl…

UCCGenetics1's tweet card. Genomic, archaeological data show population on Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, never “collapsed” as some had argued

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John O'Halloran@johbees · Sep 12

A smashing time in my office this morning as a pigeon crashes through the glass @UCC ! The window was smashed, but I safely released the pigeon who flew off into the garden!

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@UCCGenetics@UCCGenetics1 · Sep 12

An example of the complexity of disentangling the genetic from the environmental contributions to common diseases nature.com/articles/d4158…

UCCGenetics1's tweet card. Nature - Geneticists are trying to understand the elevated risks of heart and metabolic disease among people of South Asian ancestry, but some question whether a purely biological approach is best.