https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/science/platypus-genome-echidna.amp.html
Platypus genome
May 5, 2021The next big thing in retail comes with Chinese characteristics | The Economist
May 4, 2021QT:{{"
The first pillar of this new retail architecture is “social commerce”. This relies on three related technologies: live-streaming, short-form video and social-networking. The biggest live-streamer is Alibaba’s Taobao Live. In just 30 minutes of presales for Singles Day, China’s answer to Black Friday, it notched up $7.5bn-worth of sales, about as much as Amazon is thought to have sold in its “Prime Day” in October (which actually lasted 48 hours). In June Douyin set up its own shopping division, having earlier hosted many of its live-streams where the likes of Taobao teamed up with celebrity influencers to sell products. The video-app’s 600m daily users confer a valuable resource—their attention. In the autumn it made its proprietary debut on Singles Day."}}
Reaching ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now Believe – The New York Times
May 3, 2021Using multiple measurements of tissue to estimate subject- and cell-type-specific gene expression | Bioinformatics | Oxford Academic
May 3, 2021Nice analysis integrating bulk & single-cell data, to get at inter-individual differences in the expression of genes in specific
cell types https://academic.OUP.com/bioinformaticsformatics/article/36/3/782/5545976
Using multiple measurements of tissue to estimate subject- and cell-type-specific gene expression
https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/36/3/782/5545976
