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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀

@edrybicki.bsky.social

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Semi-retired biotechnologist and virologist, interested in making vaccines, lover of 70s rock and hard SF. And good red wine. Posts are both personal and professional, and may include music and/or strong opinions. And possibly zombies.

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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · Dec 12

"Cann's Principles of Molecular Virology 7th Edition revised extensively by Ed Rybicki, is an easily accessible introduction to modern virology, presenting principles in a clear and concise manner."

**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Microbiology**
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Cann's Principles of Molecular Virology

**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Microbiology**Cann's Principles of Molecular Virology, Seventh Edition provides an easily access...

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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 10h

Our entire country has no vaccines. Bad and stupid planning. Hope you stave off the joint plagues!!

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 14h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 10h

Hey, it’s a part of the continuum of consciousness - just further along than using penned notes, or an electronic organiser!

Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 10h

Pity it’s Joburg, but still a good place to visit - or so they say!

Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 14h

So missed that: you coming to S Africa? Enjoy!!

Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 14h

I recall recording Light My Fire off the radio onto my cassette player one Saturday in 1974 - after getting blown away by The Doors at a friend's house in 1970 or so. My go-to song then was The Unknown Soldier, however. So sad...!

Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 14h

This is all within my professional lifetime. And it is profoundly sad 😪

Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 14h

Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide
Mr Jones....

Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 14h

Breakfast, in my case: egg on toast. In my daughter's: me making her a chocolate milk shake - only thing she would have.

Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 14h

a man in a suit and white shirt is smiling in the back seat of a car .

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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 14h

Had a guest student do that with acrylamide stacking gels - repeatedly. Made him sacrifice a peach impaled on a minigel electrode and whisper "I should always use buffer) 20x.

Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 14h

Sterilise it with fire!!

Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 14h

It almost got out....

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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 15h

I still think The Hyacinth House and Riders on the Storm are two of the most beauthiful Doors tracks ever.

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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 15h

a man with a beard and the words " this is the way " behind him

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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 1d

a man with a beard and the words " this is the way " behind him

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AnniZLab: [🦠, 🧬 , ✨] @annizlab.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating Evo mechanism: diversity-generating retroelements (DGRs)! Highly abundant and frequently horizontally transferred - diversifying ligand-binding domains in gut Bacteroides! 🧪🦠 #microsky #microbiomesky
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Targeted protein evolution in the gut microbiome by diversity-generating retroelements

Diversity-generating retroelements (DGRs) accelerate evolution by rapidly diversifying variable proteins. The human gastrointestinal microbiota harbors the greatest density of DGRs known in nature, su...

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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 1d

Tear-jerking!!

Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 1d

Baseball is like cricket: there is no point to it, and games go on for far too long. I’ve always thought they were games played by people who were no good at rugby. B-)

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One Health Genomics Edinburgh @onehealthgenomics.bsky.social · 2d

New Publication:

Role of RNA in genome folding: It's all about affinity

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Role of RNA in genome folding: It's all about affinity

In mammalian cells, RNA species make up ∼10% of chromatin by mass and play a structural role in the nucleus by acting as scaffolds and influencing gen…

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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 1d

Quite!! Never freezes, doesn’t rain that much, hardly ever creeps above 30 - and when it does, it cools back down at night. Never stickily humid…I grew up in subtropical Africa; I am now so acclimatised to Cape Town I could never live there again!

Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 1d

The End and When the Music’s Over are part of my funeral playlist. That my wife stubbornly refuses to write down.

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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, from my youth, AND middle age…only recently stopped listening to Tull because I’d done it so much!

Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 1d

…or another geographical location. Like Cape Town.

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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, you’re talking about the Stargate, man…!