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Debating my new thing being retweeting high profile Nature and Science papers with the caption “Called it” like I’m clairvoyant science wizard.
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Happy new year🎉
Hope you're enjoying the first page of the ContamCalendar 📆🦠🌻
Still some available at contam.club
Called it.
Our new work in @Nature to explain how retrotransposons synthesize the 2nd-strand DNA by a circularization process.
Story: made some cool findings (we thought) -> actually scooped 40-yr ago by textbook knowledge -> textbook appear to be incorrect. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Called it.
Check out our new study in @ScienceMagazine, where we take on a 100-year-old debate: what’s the role of aneuploidy in cancer?
We discovered that genetically removing extra chromosomes blocks cancer growth - a phenomenon we call “aneuploidy addiction”. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
This is a first, no growth on the agar... But growth on the lid??? @ContamClub
Luc Roberts retweeted
It's official! Future Fields' growth factors are the first in the world to obtain the ACT Label from @My_Green_Lab. 🎉
ACT makes it easy for you to choose more sustainable lab products. When buying reagents, look for the ACT label and logo. ✔️
Read more: bit.ly/3J1lNDX
When you centrifuge your E. coli cells are they technically experienceing less time than cells you don't spin?
This thought is because I just read "Project Hail Mary" (@andyweirauthor) and have time dialation on the brain.
Luc Roberts retweeted
Post-docs and PI's - have you requested a free sample of our sustainably made #FGF2 yet?
We're conducting a #giveaway for a free year's supply of growth factors, with TWO ways to win.
Get started here 👉 bit.ly/44TgTBZ
Rock the Casbah is making a serious play for the top of my Spotify wrapped this year. #sharifdontlikeit
A lot of young scientists won't know this is but this how you had to edit genes before they invented #CRISPR technology!!















