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TWiEVO 89: On the outer rim of tumor evolution

  • April 24, 2023
  • Tagged as: boundary-driven growth, evolution, genome sequence, mutation, natural selection, solid tumor, state-dependent evolution model

Nels and Vincent discuss the observation that cells on a boundary of a solid tumor have higher growth rates compared to those in the center and how to model this difference using genome sequencing data.

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TWiEVO 69: Swimming in SARS-CoV-2 sequences

  • June 30, 2021
  • Tagged as: coronavirus, COVID-19, evolution, genome sequence, Rhinolophus bats, SARS-CoV-2, Sequence Read Archive, viral, virology, virus, viruses, zoonosis

Nels and Vincent discuss the identification of novel bat coronaviruses that shed light on the evolution of SARS-CoV-2, dating the first cases of COVID-19 to mid-November 2019, and recovery of deleted genome sequences from early in the Wuhan outbreak.

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TWiEVO 54: Rough drafts of SARS-CoV-2 science

  • April 25, 2020
  • Tagged as: coronavirus, CoV, COVID-19, evolution, furin cleavage site, genome sequence, natural selection, SARS-CoV-2, viral, virology, virus

Nels and Vincent continue their discussion of SARS-CoV-2 from an evolutionary viewpoint, including function of the furin cleavage site, whether Vervet cells are an informative system, another bat isolate, and a nomenclature to assist genomic epidemiology.

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TWiEVO 8: Everyone’s a little bit Neanderthal

  • June 8, 2016
  • Tagged as: adaptive introgression, evolution, genome sequence, haplotype, innate immunity, introgression, Neanderthal, OAS, oligoadenylate synthetase
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Nels visits Vincent in the MicrobeTV studio in New York and talks about how key genes of the Homo sapiens innate immune response were acquired from Neanderthals.

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