"Hurricanes are hundreds of times deadlier than anyone has realized." @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social on the new study that could radically shift how we think about hurricane deaths:
New research published today in Nature shocked even the study’s own authors.
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Step aside Monty Hall, Blackwell’s N=2 case for the secretary problem is way weirder. From www.quantamagazine.org/solution-inf...gwern.net/doc/statisti...
When you design a mRNA vector, you're usually including sequence that translates to the the mutated AA, plus a dozen or more AAs on either side. Seems like there still could be a fair amount of room to optimize codons within that vector for better stability and expression.
We have a new preprint that we’d love feedback on! We benchmarked a bunch of variant scoring methods to figure out what they were actually doing, and how they performed across selection regimes: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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This is a space that we haven't explored much in cancer vaccines (partially because many trials are still giving peptides, not mRNA). Cost alone suggests that mRNA will win long term. I've had a to-do saved about incorporating this sort of thing into our tooling - this may spur me to do it sooner!
"Epigenetic control and inheritance of rDNA arrays" New preprint from the T2T acrocentrics team! We find a tight link between methylation and transcription of the rDNAs, including the occasional silencing of entire arrays www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Is there a good dataset of healthy tissue MHC ligands? (Like GTEX but for immunopeptidomics)