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Well, what struck me was the upvotes to comment ratio, which hovered at n:0 for the longest time. There is a similar posting just now (20:21 PST), also from me
by car 3y ago
Well, what struck me was the upvotes to comment ratio, which hovered at n:0 for the longest time.
There is a similar posting just now (20:21 PST), also from medicalexpress.com. At this moment 71 points and 3 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37203761 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37203761
Seems fishy.
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- gus_massa 3y agoMy guess is that people love to upvote cancer cure, perhaps too much. IIUC this is only a proof of concept, not a clinical trial, not even rats, so it's too early to know if it will be useful. I think it will be very specific because it can target an specific RNA, but I don't know if it can be adapted to test multiple markers instead of just one. Also, I don't buy the single molecule story. My guess is that have many (10^20) molecules in the solution but only one of them binds to the probe. For an oficial reply, you can email the mods, so they can take a look. Sometimes technical stories have a high upvote to comment ratio. It used to be common but now it's more unusual.