Michael Baym
@baym
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Microbiology, evolution, antibiotic resistance, applied math, molecular biotech. Associate Professor @HarvardMed. Basic research is the engine of progress
A talking head on a screen
Joined July 2008
@nquinoneso and @implosian made a logo for our lab and it's incredible. I can't get over it
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RT @AlmostMedia: Motherfucker I messed up a ligament doing tai chi. Turns out the antibiotic cephalexin is associated with a 31% increase….
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RT @petridishes: on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate….
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RT @derekhalpern: PSA: Evernote raised their monthly fee of my account from $65.14 to $1361.83. I have received monthly receipts from them….
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RT @jcamthrash: A defined microbial community reproduces attributes of fine flavour chocolate fermentation
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Nature Microbiology - An in-depth microbiological and metagenomic analysis of Colombian farm and fermentation facilities resulted in the design of a defined microbial community that can reproduce...
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RT @martinmbauer: Terence Tao: . "This is not a routine policy shift - it is a deliberate dismantling of the institutions, funding, and fr….
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RT @deboramarks: Is America Is Abandoning One of the Greatest Medical Breakthroughs? see Rick Bright's essay in NYT today .
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Giving up on mRNA is a dangerous decision.
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RT @anshulkundaje: @jengreitz & I are looking to hire a computational biologist/biostatistician with project management expertise to collab….
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Gel buffer. LAB, not TAE, because we don’t live in the 1900s anymore.
9 Gallon Gatorade Cooler.$171.43 Each.52665T7. What should we fill it with??? 😏
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RT @malikules: if ur company wants to hire the most cracked engineers, you'd better put that 30k marketing budget aside to sponsor intl. sc….
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RT @silvirouskin: 😱 wow this is unbelievable, top score for Alzheimer’s research and didn’t get funded. Dark times indeed.
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RT @MoKhalilLab: Years ago, we set out to create synbio tech to solve a major challenge: generating precision antibodies for challenging me….
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RT @AHarms485: Elio Schaechter, eminent microbiologist and great human, leaves us his memoirs that tell the story of an extraordinary life:….
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RT @Symbionticism: Elio was a rock of humanity, a giant of microbiology, and I could never think of the world without him. I will not, as h….
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RT @SynBio1: I would take a drug that makes my blood poison to mosquitos, even if it doesn’t work fast enough to protect me personally. In….
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Malaria control and elimination is threatened by the spread of insecticide resistance and behavioral adaptation of vectors. Whether mass administration of ivermectin, a broad-spectrum antiparasitic...
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