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I have a few things to say this morning. A small but mighty 🧵.
First , I can't say thank you enough to @KatherineJWu for writing this amazing piece highlighting the crucial work of clinical laboratory scientists/medical technologists. Please read it: nytimes.com/2020/12/03/hea…
First , I can't say thank you enough to @KatherineJWu for writing this amazing piece highlighting the crucial work of clinical laboratory scientists/medical technologists. Please read it: nytimes.com/2020/12/03/hea…
The article captures a piece of the talent, expertise, and dedication of these healthcare workers. This is especially true of my dear friend @darcyavelasquez, who works relentlessly day in and day out at @ChildrensColo to provide the best care possible to Colorado's children.
Sometimes it feels like the @KatherineJWu's, @kmess44's, and @jesscataldi's of the world are one-in-a-million. The failure to recognize the clinical laboratory (and people within it) for its importance in how healthcare works is not just a #COVIDー19 issue.
Do you believe Cures exist?
I am opening for 'peer review' ¿? the email I sent to gather more data about #Hydroxychloroquine and #Azithromycin on the French study. docs.google.com/document/d/1Mf… @jeremyphoward
If any #virologist and/or #microbiologist is willing to dig deeper, let me know.
This one is the email I sent to the Ministry of Health (in spanish)... has a bit more detail behind what I believe can be done. docs.google.com/document/d/1-S…
Our recent work uses #kefir – a natural milk fermenting community – to unravel mechanisms of coexistence in complex communities. Now on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (thread 1/5) 
We show how microbes poorly suited for milk surprisingly dominate the kefir community through metabolic cooperation. The kefir grain acts as a ‘basecamp’ for this complex community (30-50 species), from which they colonize the milk in a complex yet organized manner (thread 2/5)
The ability of the microbial species in kefir to stick together and collaborate is what makes them successful, e.g. by being more stress resistant. This image shows one of the interaction networks we uncovered for kefir species
(thread 3/5)
(thread 3/5)
