@RobertFService

Reporter for Science magazine covering chemistry, materials, energy, and computing. Inventor of the wheel (former life)

 Portland, OR
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Joined May 2012
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Could a popular COVID-19 antiviral supercharge the pandemic?

Merck & Co.’s molnupiravir appears to be speeding evolution of SARS-CoV-2

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Through his Schmidt Futures philanthropic initiative, former Google CEO will invest $40 million over 5 years to help universities recruit software engineers to improve scientific software. Uff... the Fortan I wrote way back in the day! @SchmidtFutures science.org/content/article/…

Former Google CEO invests in computing help for university scientists

Schmidt Futures philanthropy launches Virtual Institute for Scientific Software

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I added a new set of images to the online gallery of my crystal photomicrographs. This set vogues crystals of the amino acid, alanine, recrystallized from a solution in Mezcal, which makes for treat cocktails too. pixels.com! pixels.com/featured/alanine-…
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6 Jan 2022
Rick Bright's extraordinary journey from unvaccinated teen to leading figure in vaccine R&D, whistleblower famous for confronting Trump administration, and now head of Rockefeller's Pandemic Prevention Institute with tabula rasa. @PPI_Insights science.org/content/article/…
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FDA greenlights Pfizer’s oral COVID-19 drug science.org/content/article/…
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Some nifty stereotyping going on here...
Jan De Meulemeester
@JDeMeulemeester
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Mooi 🇧🇪
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Game day attire.🤍💚 RT this post for a chance to win 10k @AlaskaAir miles. #RCTID
Diego Valeri gives a serious face while wearing a white Timbers kit

ALT Diego Valeri gives a serious face while wearing a white Timbers kit

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Researchers race to develop antiviral weapons to fight the pandemic coronavirus sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/…
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The system combines electrochemical water splitting with forward osmosis, enabling the production of hydrogen from salty natural water without pre-treatment or purification chemistryworld.com/news/seaw…

Seawater-splitting system could scale-up renewable hydrogen production

Simple cell has no moving parts making scale-up straightforward

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In our open letter, we scientists are standing up for @Harvard professor Charles Lieber. We also are speaking out against the harm that the prosecution of Charles and other scientists has inflicted on academic freedom and scholarly collaboration.
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Once again, @carlziimer proves that he has an extraordinary way with words. What is the meaning of life? he asks. Answer: Depends. nytimes.com/2021/02/26/opini…

Opinion | The Secret Life of a Coronavirus (Published 2021)

An oily, 100-nanometer-wide bubble of genes has killed more than two million people and reshaped the world. Scientists don’t quite know what to make of it.

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Saliva could hold clues to how sick you will get from COVID-19 sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/…
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‘It’s crazy.’ Upbeat COVID-19 vaccine news from China and U.K. leave scientists wanting more details sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/…
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It's Monday, so there's great vaccine news: The final results from Moderna's 30,000-participant trial. Most surprising new finding: 100% efficacy against severe disease. bit.ly/37kJP9d by @sciencecohen
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Artificial intelligence has solved one of biology’s grand challenges: predicting how proteins curl up from a linear chain of amino acids into 3D shapes that allow them to carry out life’s tasks. fcld.ly/40ujroa
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‘The game has changed.’ AI triumphs at solving protein structures sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/…
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Our latest paper @ScienceMagazine great work by @DrCallumFoden , @drsaidulislam, Christian, @aleonrod88 and @SheppardTomD. Prebiotic cysteine delivers selective catalytic peptide synthesis in neutral water. science.sciencemag.org/conte…
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Those complaining that vote counting is lagging in key battleground states in doubt must understand that counting is also ongoing in other states previously called. We just don’t care because they’ve already been decided. Plus, record turnout and mail-ins don’t help. Be patient.
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The next generation of fast frequent rapid tests are on the horizon. Increasingly we are seeing paper-strip tests that look like antigen tests but detect RNA with Improved specificity and possibly sensitivity too! Eventually rapid frequent testing will be routine
Eric Topol
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8 Oct 2020
The 5-minute, low-cost virus test using #CRISPR, a mobile phone, without fancy equipment, for point-of-care sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/… @RobertFService @ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/… @TheOttLab @GladstoneInst @doudna_lab
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Eric Topol
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The 5-minute, low-cost virus test using #CRISPR, a mobile phone, without fancy equipment, for point-of-care sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/… @RobertFService @ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/… @TheOttLab @GladstoneInst @doudna_lab
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