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Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬
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Professor of Neurobiology & Bioengineering @Stanford ☘️🧪🦠🧠🌈🔬📖🇺🇲🌏Neurons, viruses, medicines. Invented predecessor of Paxlovid. Also @MichaelLinLab
Harvard→UCLA→HMS→UCSD→Stanford
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Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬@michaelzlin · Jul 31, 2023
Click the thread below to get to my SARS-CoV-2 mega-metathread. That thread previously had its own intro tweet, but I deleted it by mistake. This being Twitter, there are no free undos. So instead this tweet will parachute you into it.
First, a link to the COVID-19 metathread of 2020-2021
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Michael Eisen@mbeisen · Jul 22
You run a government infectious disease research agency. You get a grant that proposes to carry out gain of function research into potentially dangerous coronaviruses. If you fund the grant you probably won’t learn anything useful, but 40 million people might die from a lab leak.…
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