Our early ancestors seem to have divulged in some very unsavoury antics. I wonder what other nasty little surprises are lurking in our genomes that they thought they'd got away with? theconversation.com/early-humans-i…

Our first paper on #TraDIS-Xpress has been accepted in Genome Research, Keith Turner . An amazing comprehensive video description of #TraDIS-Xpress as well. Thank you Quadram Institute and team! quadram.ac.uk/tradis-xpress-…

Does anyone know why people are panick-buying toilet roll? It doesn't give you the sh*ts as well, does it?

From a well respected friend and intensivist/A&E consultant who is currently in northern Italy: 1/ ‘I feel the pressure to give you a quick personal update about what is happening in Italy, and also give some quick direct advice about what you should do.

Been out panicking-buying. Phew! That was lucky!

First attempt at 50 min (from sample to result) CoV test with a 3 min extraction and rapid cycle RT-qPCR on a portable qPCR machine (16 samples per run) with readout on a mobile phone. Needs optimisation but looking promising. Collaboration with Jonathan Edgeworth at St Thomas'

It is my pleasure to shine a light in these dark times by sharing the news that Medical Research Council has approved our business plan and agreed to fund our CLIMB-BIG-DATA CLIMB-BIG-DATA proposal, which will allow us to continue to provide bionformatics support to the UK microbiology community!

If everyone who is grateful for NHS staff right now followed and retweeted, we would reach a million by midnight. It will take just two seconds to do, and you can help us share important information that could help save lives.

Perfect poise, neat little shake at the end, but points deducted for not looking to see who you’re pissing on!

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Genomics sleuths in £20m bid to map spread of #COVID19 bit.ly/3bmWJ79 NHS Wellcome Sanger Institute Quadram Institute

At the cinema?

"Chemical biology-whole genome engineering datasets predict new antibacterial combinations" is out bit.ly/3y2NZiO. Tradis-Xpress is a method that provides insights on which essential genes, and here has been used to elucidate #AntimicrobialResistance in #Ecoli

📣New episode! This week on Science Soundbites Muhammad Yasir talks to Emma Holden about 'Massively parallel transposon mutagenesis identifies temporally essential genes for biofilm formation in E.coli' 🔊 Youtube: buff.ly/3CHl9Yd 🔊 Soundcloud: buff.ly/3CNiYCm

Quadram Institute Researcher Muhammad Yasir has recently launched a new Audio Paper Series, turning scientific papers into short soundbites. We caught up with Yasir to find out more about his career and the new audio project 🎙️ buff.ly/3sAQdUK

"I had the idea of making an Audio Paper Series as an alternative to audiobooks for scientists who want to keep up to date with research"🎧 💬Muhammad Yasir buff.ly/3SGLxHH

📣 In this week's Science Soundbites hear Muhammad Yasir talk to Gemma Langridge about the emergence of resistance to antibiotics in Salmonella Typhi in Lahore, Pakistan. 🔊 Youtube buff.ly/3fqabyK 🔊 Soundcloud buff.ly/3NoQl3g

Does anyone else think that the term “horizontal gene transfer” doesn’t need the word “horizontal?”

As if we needed further proof that our government has lost its moral compass, this is what they asked me to type when attempting to log in to gov.uk