While the first reference human genome is more than 20 years old (Skaletsky et al, 2003), the reference human genome GRCh38 Y chromosome was missing almost half of its 57.2 Mb. But the August 23 online publication of...read more
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The Role of the Human Gut Microbiome in Alzheimer’s Disease Development
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), today is the most prevalent form of dementia afflicting more than 50 million people worldwide (Queiroz et al., 2022, Varesi et al., 2022), and with a doubling time of 20 years could easily...read more
Omicron NTD Insertions: A new Route for Variant Generation?
My most recent article published was a quick review of what was known about the SARS Omicron variant in the post 2021, The Year of the Various SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern – from Alpha to Omicron. While researching...read more
2021, The Year of the Various SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern – from Alpha to Omicron
A review of the various SARS-CoV-2 Omicron mutations 2021 was the year of multiple variants of concerns (VOCs) starting with the Alpha variant in the UK, which was first detected in November 2020, and spread quickly by...read more
