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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿

@drgregorymorgan.bsky.social
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Historian and philosopher of science, especially virology. New Zealand-American. Lover of antiquarian books, and verge pocket watches. Author of Cancer Virus Hunters (JHU Press, 2022) scholar.google.com/citations?user=R…

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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Interested in a concrete intersection between Science and Art? Check out the early history of virus structure. Viruses structured like Bucksminster Fuller's Geodesic Domes or Kenneth Snelson's Tensegrity Sculptures #virosky 🧪 #STS #historyofbiology apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-to... #scisky #valuesinscience
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How to Save Science
Trump has killed the postwar social contract, but its demise was long in the making. To protect science as a public good, we need a different approach.
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Hoboken terminal update Is making progress
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We are launching a new school of computing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lWA...
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Stevens Launches the School of Computing This Fall
YouTube video by Stevens Institute of Technology
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
#hps #philsci #histsci
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
🧪 #evolution
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Interested in the genesis of the molecular clock? It is tied up with Linus Pauling's fight against nuclear testing. www.researchgate.net/profile/Greg...
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
And I should add, are you looking for a good historical source to cite for your Epstein Barr virus research? I can send you a copy of Cancer Virus Hunters #epsteinbarrvirus #EBV #virosky #virology #microsky #tumorvirus #cancervirus
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This review of an objectively great book (by my man😍) is especially nice for emphasising the aesthetic dimension of fragility with some great metaphors. Thank you @adrian-currie.bsky.social #philsci
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Science for a Fragile World
Maybe the world is like an armillary sphere. Metallic balls representing celestial objects are placed just-so along spherical rings, tracing an at-first...
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Looking for a good source to cite in your historical introduction to HPV, HepB, tumor virology, oncogene, cancer, p53, retrovirus, HIV, or Rous sarcoma virus research? Contact me and I will send you my book Cancer Virus Hunters. @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social 🧪#microsky #virosky #cancersky🧫♋
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naturepoker @binomicalabs.org · 02/07/2026
Fun review on viral taxonomy: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... 🧫🦠
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Virus taxonomy and the ICTV – 21 FAQs for the perplexed virologist
Just over 125 years has passed since the ‘filterable’ agents of tobacco mosaic disease and foot-and-mouth disease were first described as infectious, replicating entities smaller than bacteria. Today,...
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
@asavage.bsky.social was an amazing commencement speaker blending science technology and art
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
RIP Craig Venter. I have fond memories of being invited to give a history of biology talk at his institute in Rockville, Maryland that was telecast in California and talking to him afterwards. 🧪 #virosky
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Scholar Goggler bot @scholargoggler.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
What Gregory J. Morgan's publications say about them: virus, biodiversity, design, science, bacteriophage, beauty @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social #AcademicSky See yours at scholargoggler.com
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Red bellied woodpecker at our new window mounted bird feeder
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Dr Mike Ward @schroedinger99.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Michael Bishop, co-discoverer of the src oncogene and one of the heroes of my book Cancer Virus Hunters, has passed. #oncogene #cancer #nobel #ucsf #roussarcomavirus www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...
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J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize Winner for Cancer Research, Dies at 90
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Angela Creager's review of Matthew Cobb's @matthewcobb.bsky.social new biography of Francis Crick: lareviewofbooks.org/article/fran...
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Doing Someone Else’s Crossword | Los Angeles Review of Books
The Francis Crick of Matthew Cobb’s new biography was both the consummate insider and a scientific outlier.
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Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Sad to hear of the passing of David Botstein, one of the greats in that 1st gen of folks to be trained in molecular biology. He generously talked with me, a lowly grad student, about Barbara McClintock... 30 years ago! @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social @alistairsponsel.bsky.social
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
www.science.org/content/arti...
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ChatGPT spits out surprising insight in particle physics
Physicists combined human acumen and AI-assisted math to show that a doubted particle interaction is possible after all
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Ice in the Hudson River Today
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Peter Duesberg has died. I discussed his excellent early work on retroviruses and cancer (before the infamous HIV-AIDS denialism) in my book Cancer Virus Hunters #virosky 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/s...
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Peter H. Duesberg, 89, Renowned Biologist Turned H.I.V. Denialist, Dies
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J. Craig Venter Institute @jcvi.org · 11/12/2025
A circular economy turns waste into resources—and JCVI scientists are making it real. We are engineering microbes to upcycle mixed plastic waste into valuable products like lycopene and lipids. No sorting, no landfills—just innovation for a sustainable future. 🧪🧬 www.jcvi.org/media-center...
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Scientists engineer microbial teams to transform mixed plastics into valuable products
La Jolla, California—December 11, 2025—Each year, the world produces more than 400 million metric tons of plastic, much of which ends up in...
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Why tumor viruses are more important than you think! @markowenmartin.bsky.social Mark O Martin's podcast is out. #virosky 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=thSt...
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Matters Microbial #117: Cancer Virus Hunters and Molecular Biology
YouTube video by MicrobeTV
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
A thoughtful review of Cancer Virus Hunters in BJHS by @ctimmermann.bsky.social #cancer #historyofbiology #tumorvirology #HPV #cancervaccine #oncogenes #historyofscience #historyof20thcentury www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Gregory J. Morgan, Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. Pp. 392. ISBN 978-1-4214-4401-7. $50.00 (hardcover). | The British Journal for the...
Gregory J. Morgan, Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. Pp. 392. ISBN 978-1-4214-4401-7. $50.00 (hardcover).
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Looking forward to being on the podcast of @markowenmartin.bsky.social to talk about the history of tumor virology. We will talk about some of these viruses:
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
If you are looking to read a more nuanced account of Rosalind Franklin and Jim Watson following the Double Helix, check out an article Angela Creager and I wrote a while back: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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After the Double Helix : Rosalind Franklin's Research on Tobacco mosaic virus | Isis: Vol 99, No 2
ABSTRACT Rosalind Franklin is best known for her informative X-ray diffraction patterns of DNA that provided vital clues for James Watson and Francis Crick's double-stranded helical model. Her scienti...
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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 06/11/2025
Children and young people faced higher and longer-lasting risks of rare heart complications after #COVID19 infection than after vaccination, say @vpd-hlri.bsky.social researchers. Find out more about this study 👇 bit.ly/43BmUof 🧪
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Risk of rare heart complications in children higher after COVID-19 infection than after vaccination
Children and young people faced long-lasting and higher risks of rare heart and inflammatory complications after COVID-19 infection, compared to before or
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Nice to see philosophers of science taking on issues of the day. aeon.co/essays/scien...
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Science needs disagreement. What makes some disagreement useless? | Aeon Essays
Scientific progress depends on disagreement. So why are vaccine sceptics and other science critics not worth listening to?
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Daniel J Nicholson @djnicholson.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Last chance to download my book for free! It's still available until tomorrow.
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Rare white whale sighted in New Zealand: www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
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Rare white humpback whale spotted off coast of Kaikōura
Could it be the world-famous Migaloo who hasn’t been spotted in five years?
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
One of my undergraduate mentors the biologist Hamish Spencer has retired: www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroo...?
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Zoology academic retires following career exploring natural evolution
Emeritus Professor Hamish Spencer recalls that, even when he was a child collecting shells from his local Bay of Plenty beaches, he was fascinated by the diversity of animals and how they relate to ea...
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I really love this new song from the artist Plain Henley: open.spotify.com/track/67Tb5m...
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Summer's Out
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Moa creek was just down the road from where I grew up www.facebook.com/reel/7731375...
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993 reactions · 178 shares | The wingless bird that ruled the roost. Episode 13. Remembering Moa 🥚 #moa #frankfilm #storiesfromthesouth | Frank Film
The wingless bird that ruled the roost. Episode 13. Remembering Moa 🥚 #moa #frankfilm #storiesfromthesouth.
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Chris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
🧪 Cool subtext to this cool story on the “little red dots’ - possibly primordial black holes! - dotting the early Universe is that the hopes for the James Webb telescope have been realised. It is pulling back the curtain on puzzling and unexpected things that will help us understand how we got here.
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A Single, ‘Naked’ Black Hole Rewrites the History of the Universe | Quanta Magazine
The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A major discovery, the object confounds theories of the young cosmos.
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Hoboken train station is being renovated
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
The start of the 2025-26 academic year at Stevens Institute of Technology
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
A technology that played a key part in saving millions of lives during the pandemic should be celebrated. Yet in the US, research into mRNA vaccines is being cut. While sadly not unexpected, it’s irresponsible as we argue in our editorial this week 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility
The rest of the world is not following the US government’s dangerous path, and will stick with the technology that helped the world out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Why are most books written by historians of science not read by scientists? Is it they focus too much on social context and not enough on the details of past science? #sts #hps #historyofscience #sociologyofscience 🧪
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Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out Amalia Sweet‬ (‪@harvard.edu‬‬‬)’s review of @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social (Stevens Institute of Technology)’s book _Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology_, pub 2022 @hopkinspress.bsky.social‬ #HSTM Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
In the history of cancer research, "horns" growing from rabbits' heads were important in showing cancer could be virally caused. See Chapter 1 of Cancer Virus Hunters. apnews.com/article/rabb...
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Rabbits with 'horns' in Colorado are being called 'Frankenstein bunnies.' Here's why
Some cottontail rabbits in Fort Collins, Colorado, have been drawing attention because they have wart-like growths on their faces that look like horns.
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End
America’s run as the premier techno-superpower may be over.
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Amazing frequency of lightning strikes in this July storm in South Dakota
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Kenneth Becker @geophotographer.org · 08/07/2025
Archaeologists recovered 22 blocks from the Lighthouse of Alexandria, an ancient wonder. Using 3D scans, researchers aim to digitally reconstruct it, shedding light on its design and collapse. The blocks were found in the harbor off Alexandria. 🧪📜 #AncientEgypt #Archaeology #DigitalReconstruction
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Massive blocks from the Lighthouse of Alexandria, an ancient wonder, hauled up from the Mediterranean
French and Egyptian researchers are making a "digital twin" of the Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt after lifting its ancient submerged blocks out of the Mediterranean Sea.
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Meeting and talking with Roger Penrose in 1993 was one of the highlights of my undergraduate experience. Here is an excellent review of a recent biography:https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n11/steven-shapin/through-the-trapdoor
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Steven Shapin · Through the Trapdoor: Roger Penrose’s Puzzles
Stephen Hawking may have been a genius, but ‘Roger Penrose’s insights seem to stem from some superhuman life-form...
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Johns Hopkins University Press is having a book sale including on Cancer Virus Hunters. "From now until July 10th, use code H4JUL25 for 40% off all books and free shipping on $75+ orders." @JHUPress www.press.jhu.edu/books
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Books
From now until July 10th, use code H4JUL25 for 40% off all books and free shipping on $75+ orders. From summer reads like "Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness" to titles on American history, presidents, and more, Hopkins Press has something for every reader.
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Looking for a good book on the philosophy of quantum mechanics? www.amphilsoc.org/news/aps-awa...
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APS Awards 2025 Patrick Suppes Prize in Philosophy of Science, largest book prize in Philosophy, to Dr. Alyssa Ney | American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society has awarded the 2025 Patrick Suppes Prize in Philosophy to Dr. Alyssa Ney for her book The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics (Oxford Univ...
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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Spring 2025 End-of-Semester Address from President Nariman Farvardin
YouTube video by Stevens Institute of Technology
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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿 @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Stevens Institute of Technology Commencement 2025: Prof Gregory Morgan as faculty marshall and Prof Carlos Alomar, music professor #stevens @FollowStevens @StevensNewsroom
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Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @tedpavlic.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
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How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific
A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.
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