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Alejandro Avila
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M.Sc. student at UNAM
|| Microbial ecology || Geospatia Data Analysis || Working with mangroves 🌱
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Rarefaction is better than robust Aitchison PCA and other compositional data analysis methods at controlling for uneven sequencing effort www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs
January 7, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Reposted by Alejandro Avila
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...
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.
www.richmondscientific.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM