#DNAforensics

Call for evidence-based (policy debate for pricing of) medicine buff.ly/2EQzQuq Matthew Herper STAT

#DNAbarcoding used to detect a number of #shark species -- some endangered -- in pet food buff.ly/2SsYFob @HakaiMagazine @BethanyAugliere @DiegoCardenosa IUCN Red List

#Kraken #genome cracked! buff.ly/3arkoUc #Architeuthisdux #GiantSquid @RuteF GigaScience @OUPacademic CMEC @Uni_Copenhagen via GenomeWeb Daily Scan

$48M from IARPA to pursue #DNAstorage buff.ly/2S43ALZ @EmilyLMullin @OZM Tara Brown

A fishy campaign against salmon washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-fis… @aquabountytech @geneticliteracy @iambiotech @biotecanada

#forensicDNA and genealogy used to free wrongly-convicted California man who had been in prison for 15 years buff.ly/39A1ER6 Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP) @Innocence Vern Pierson @SchubertForDA The Guardian via GenomeWeb Daily Scan

#LiquidBiopsy

Agile academic response LSU Veterinary Med to set up #PopUpPCR, #RiverRoadTestingLab, and 20-fold faster turnaround #COVID19 test to decompress regional hospital needs. < 1 week from "go" to fed approval and production use. @RC_EPI #StephaniaCormier #BeverlyOgden #coronavirus @AEGallo

North Beach, TX ... #coronavirus PSA from TxDOT Given the several alt etiologies out there (#SARSCoV2 arising from nefarious government labs in Manitoba, Maryland or Wuhan), surprising that there's been no significant extraterrestrial attribution of the virus and #COVID19.

#BioAlfa #biodiversity project aims to #DNAbarcode every species in #CostaRica ... #Colombia is considering, too buff.ly/2VYAM8e @Jeremy_Hance Mongabay Blog @Rhett_Butler ACG @GDFCF_org Carlos Alvarado Quesada Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG) @UofG UCEAP Study Abroad Mailyn @Inst_Humboldt @CLopezCorrea

Our editorial on the need for a coordinated pandemic preparedness anti-viral drug discovery strategy based on open science - introducing ViMI SFU Health Sciences

The #TigerKing holds off any breach of @RudysBarbershop's perimeter by the ill-intentioned, the ill-groomed, or insolvency investors (created by @BaileeHiatt [Insta] and #Paint2Change). buff.ly/2BAbkzs @_Katya_Long Sortis Holdings, Inc. (OTC: SOHI) Fremont Chamber #Seattle @SeattleTimes

Improving crops with microbial communities, #BoostBiomes announces #SeriesA financing and partnership with @Yara buff.ly/2ZdGWTF AgFunder #microbiome #VikingGlobal Y Combinator #FoodTech #AgTech @JamieBacher Farhan Mitha World Agri-Tech #Kureha GenomeWeb Daily Scan AdamArkin_Lab

The voice and words of Kafui Dzirasa, MD PhD on the interior of a black academic in America ... #BlackLivesMatter Cell Elsevier Duke University Duke University School of Medicine DukeMEDx .

#biodiversity #DNAbarcoding University of Guelph News Research Innovation Office at UofG Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG) @OntarioGenomics Genome Canada Ontario Innovation UN Biodiversity Dr. Mona Nemer

Congrats to #HelenPetropoulos and #DennisMcCormac (@ArtSciFartSci) on their well-deserved and exciting new roles as Assoc VPs Ontario Genomics!! TIFF and fellow #TIFF20 acolytes should also celebrate the duo who put the OG in #vlog and #TIFFgenomics into the stream!!

The #NewMexicoBookCoop has selected Gary Worth Moody (AKA, my brother-in-law) and his most recent poetry volume, The Burnings, for the 2020 "AZ-NM Book Award in Poetry - NM". Available from the publisher (3: A Taos Press) and the usual suspects ... buff.ly/2EFhlwG

thanks to The Chicks for the exit processional accompaniment

Thank you, Amanda Gorman, for sharing such powerful and inspiring words today. #InaugurationDay