Daniel Bridges
257 posts
@danieljbridges
Biochemist, malariologist, scientist 👨🔬 and general geek living in Zimbabwe. Views are my own....
In a recent @naturecomms paper, the @PATHTweets #NOMADS team present a flexible and cost-effective approach they developed to enable #malaria #genomic #surveillance in low-resource settings: ow.ly/smYG50QGfKA
We’re excited to share that Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open, with configurations powered by the latest AMD Ryzen™ CPUs and AMD Radeon™ GPUs!
Remember when reading both strands of the DNA with @nanopore would give you 85 % identity hits? Here is a 100+ kbp 5khz duplex read from the zymo HMW mock with 99.98 % identity 🥳 (Wonder for how long the high error rate ghost will haunt the literature)
Mosquitoes are responsible for over 1 million deaths each year. The mosquitoes that can be killed by a human during an average lifetime (may vary significantly depending on several factors) can reach 25,000. But have you ever killed one with magnets?
Cyanotriazole compounds can rapidly cure trypanosome infections in mice, a new study finds. The results bring the possibility of eradication and effective management of many neglected tropical diseases. 📄: scim.ag/3aZ #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/3aY
Gene Drives & Malaria Elimination ~ Nearly 300 people have now registered for this masterclass. You can join us on Thursday June 22nd for a 150 minutes detailed technical conversation about How Gene Drives Might Be Used for Malaria Elimination in Africa It will be 100% Free; but we have space for only the first 300 participants to arrive. ~ Register here: ihi-or-tz.zoom.us/meeting/regist… @Gene_Convene @ifakarahealth @MESAmalaria @TargetMalaria @imperialcollege @Imperial_IGHI @VectorsGlasgow @UofGlasgow @LSHTM @LSTMnews @GlobalVectorHub
Genome Sequencing Bioinformatics Africa 2023 - Call for Participants - mailchi.mp/3825c222d8d9/g… The Wellcome Connecting Science / H3ABioNet "Genome Sequencing Bioinformatics Africa Training Course" is now accepting participant applications!
