“[P]eople who were homozygous (had two copies) of this protective gene variant
involved in antigen presentation were 40 percent more likely to survive the
plague than those with two copies of a deleterious variant, which encodes a
broken protein.”
posted 11/3/2022 8:00pm ∞
“[T]he ancient wolf genomes clustered together in time. That is, a given wolf
was most likely to be closely related to other wolves alive at around the same
time, no matter where those wolves lived on the planet.”
posted 10/2/2022 8:00pm ∞
“A study from J&J in September [2021] showed that after a second dose, the J&J
vaccine was about 91% effective, nearly matching the efficacy of the Pfizer and
Moderna shots after two doses.”
posted 8/30/2022 8:00pm ∞
“[T]he pfhrp2 deletions had arisen recently and hadn’t had time for mutation and
recombination to scramble the DNA sequences nearby. So,
all the [malaria] parasites that carry the pfhrp2 deletion seemed to have
inherited it from the same ancestor, that ancestor was very recent, and there
was a selective pressure that was driving the expansion of parasites that
inherited the deletion.”
posted 8/12/2022 8:00pm ∞
“[T]he modeling estimated that COVID -19 vaccination [in the
United States] prevented 3.25 million deaths…. Averted hospitalizations
were estimated at 18.6 million…. For infections, the model estimated a
dodge of 119.85 million.”
posted 12/24/2022 8:00pm ∞