Apple is dedicated to supporting the worldwide response to COVID-19. We’ve now sourced over 20M masks through our supply chain. Our design, engineering, operations and packaging teams are also working with suppliers to design, produce and ship face shields for medical workers.

A group of scientists has written an open letter calling on the US government to commit to a science-based approach to #COVID19 and future #pandemics. We need #science to help guide us out of this pandemic. If you agree, please sign this letter. bit.ly/2V75cVh

Moderna released Phase I clinical trial data for a coronavirus vaccine in 8 patients. While everyone is looking for the light at the end of the tunnel, we need a dose of realism here. Phase I is to assess safety of the vaccine and tells us nothing about whether it is effective.

Today @nature the most extensive publicly accessible human #genomics data yet: 126,000 exomes, ~16,000 whole genomes. Illumination of structural & rare variants, knockouts, drug targets, and so much more nature.com/articles/d4158… Deanna Church (she/her) natureNV

We're hiring! Join our quest for bacterial molecules that mediate microbe-host interactions! Please RT/share with potentially interested candidates. You can DM or email me for further information.

This is so fucking cool

国内开始清查海外关系了，这是要为闭关后，文革批斗做准备？ 刚才父亲告诉我基层组织领导找到他，说是因为疫情，要登记我在海外的电话、地址。我父亲說不知道，最终只给他们微信号！ 我看最近不少网友都在提国内登记出国留学、探亲信息。开了40年的大门要关了，有亲属在中国的要做好心理准备！

The bile acid pool, which recirculates between the liver and gut 10x/day, is central to metabolic & immune function. Its composition is heavily influenced by gut bacteria. Excited to share Masa/Tyler's work on the core pathway, w/🙏 to Almo for the collab. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Congrats!!! Finally the gut metabolic pathway for secondary bile acids is completely established after decades of study!

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Scientists: Support for the innovation engine of American science: immigrants - Sign the Petition! chng.it/WkNFfhYd via Change.org

1/ Covid (UC San Francisco) Chronicles, Day 188 Let’s keep things simple today. 200,000 deaths. We’ll hit that number in the next few hours.

I fear Trump’s #COVID19 diagnosis will be a disaster. He’ll be fine: early diagnosis, 24h care, early remdesivir and Covid antibodies. He’ll get better & say Covid is no big deal. People will believe him, let down their guard, and 100Ks will die when they can’t get the same care.

Honored by the invitation to share my Poster at Keystone Symposia virtual meeting, Harnessing the Microbiome for Disease Prevention and Therapy. Tune in to explore new frontiers in #MicrobiomeResearch this January. keysym.us/VKSMicrobiomeT… #VKSMicrobiomeTherapy21 #eSymposia

Very happy to present you gutSMASH, the main project of my PhD! We used this tool to profile the human gut microbiota for specialized primary metabolism. The results show taxon specific metabolic strategies. Read more about the tool & results in here! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We finally know the names of every victim from this week's mass murder. Know their names. Remember their names. #StopAsianHate Soon C. Park, 74 Hyun J. Grant, 51 Suncha Kim, 69 Yong A. Yue, 63 Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33 Paul Andre Michels, 54 Xiaojie Tan, 49 Daoyou Feng, 44

Today we report that removing a strain from a complex microbiome can ripple through the community in an unpredictable (& useful) way. Min Wang was the mastermind, with help from Mark Brown, Stan Hazen & crew. Cell 1/25 cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Thrilled to share my postdoc work Michael Fischbach lab just got published Cell, which clearly demonstrates how removing one strain from a complex defined microbiome impacts the community composition and host metabolome in a surprising way!!! Much appreciated to everyone involved!

Today we report a detailed map of interactions between the immune system and the gut microbiome. Kazuki Nagashima led the charge w/ help from Aishan Zhao and Kat Atabakhsh. nature 1/40 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Thrilled to see our #microbiome #immunology paper is out in nature! We mapped T cell receptor specificity to the gut microbiome at the level of a single TCR versus a single strain. nature.com/articles/s4158… Here are highlights of our findings.