Ewen Callaway
@ewencallaway
Journalist at Nature. Mostly listening.
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Parts of this >85K large bacterial protein were only annotatable by structural comparison. Here West-Roberts et al. used ColabFold/AlphaFold2 to predict and Foldseek to search structures. Read more about this protein in Ewen Callaway news article.
Preprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Dear Chloe Smith, when you visited the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology last May, were any of my ideas of trying to understand #Alzheimers disease too woke for your party? Have you read the book below?
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My piece on Google DeepMind's new tool for predicting disease-causing mutations - a crowded field where AI is already making big gains.
'It’s the best predictor we have right now. Will it be in two or three years? There’s a good chance it won’t.'
nature.com/articles/d4158…
Ian Wilmut has died, aged 79, according to The University of Edinburgh
I was lucky enough to speak with him at length for an oral history of Dolly. nature.com/articles/53460…
Something big is going up at Memorial Stadium. I guess planning permission granted, then? Cllr Emma Edwards Tristan Cork Post Alex Seabrook❗️
The controversy over the Homo naledi intentional burial and engravings papers is stress-testing the new @elife peer review model.
My latest for nature
With thanks to Lee R Berger George (PJ) Perry María Martinón-Torres John Hawks Jamie Hodgkins & Sven Ouzman
nature.com/articles/d4158…
On the Homo naledi papers & eLife - the journal reviews:
Mahya Fazel-Zarandi & Julian Hartman updated their story following publication of the reviews: dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/0…
And Ewen Callaway wrote this piece highlighting the reviews/ featuring several reviewers: nature.com/articles/d4158…
Good models
'Sharp criticism of controversial ancient-human claims tests eLife - the journal 's revamped peer-review model' by Ewen Callaway in @nature
nature.com/articles/d4158…
Ewen Callaway piece on the genetics of study participation in @nature
nature.com/articles/d4158…