How is the nectar of RNA-seq produced?
<p>Hi everyone. It’s been a while since I last wrote on the blog. Unfortunately, sometimes life gets tough—you lose energy, motivation, and above all, your sense of priorities. I’m not out of this dar...
Hausdorff
The philosopher Felix Hausdorff, famous for his foundational philosophical work Das Chaos in kosmischer Auslese (Chaos in Cosmic Selection) in which he rejects metaphysics, also did mathematics as a ...
Nowakia
Among the millions of pages in the Epstein files, there is an inconspicuous, seemingly mundane short email, EFTA00896810, dated 14th September, 2010. It is a message from Jeffrey Epstein to Martin Now...
What’s changed?
Andy Saunders writes: A couple of things come to mind. The planet on the right contains, on average, around 70% fewer animals than the planet on the left. The atmosphere of the planet on the right als...
Updated genomic analysis of the 2026 menB outbreak in Kent, UK
<p>This is a brief update to the <a href="https://www.bacpop.org/blog/menb/">previous menB analysis</a> we’d posted here.</p> <p>UKHSA have released a <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publ...
Life at the freezing edge
The fact that any small, cold blooded animal such as the insects can sustain temperatures below the freezing point of water has to be one of the most remarkable features of animal evolution. Even more...
Initial genomic analysis of the 2026 menB outbreak in Kent, UK
<p>We’ve done a quick analysis on the meningitis outbreak genome to try and answer whether there is anything obviously genetically unusual about the publicly available outbreak strain.</p> <p>We...
menB outbreak in Kent -- first genome
<p>Previous posts on menB:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://johnlees.me/posts/menb-outbreak/" rel="">First thoughts and summary</a></li> <li><a href="https://johnlees.me/posts/menb-outbreak-more/" rel=""...
menB outbreak in Kent -- more thoughts
<p>Posted some <a href="https://johnlees.me/posts/menb-outbreak/" rel="">thoughts on the menB outbreak yesterday</a>. Now nine more cases, total at 27.</p> <p>A few more thoughts today, also after dis...
menB outbreak in Kent -- initial thoughts
<p>A cluster of meningitis cases is <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cpdy64wp936t?post=asset%3Ae72693ff-108d-4aa4-a888-68bef84b2583#post" rel="noopener noreffer " target="_blank">currently dom...