Ovah

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by Ovah 5y ago
This guy CRISPR'd himself.. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/diy-dna-hacks-wounds-take-lo...
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by Ovah 5y ago
I've always wanted to see one of these but I probably shouldn't. Apparently one of their major threats is ecotourism.
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by Ovah 5y ago
Tangential: a while back I bought a very specific cheese from Lidl. And the very same evening I got a Lidl ad for that very cheese on Facebook. I have never signed up as a member, the only things that connect me to that place would be my cr
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Surgeons Perform First Human Tracheal Transplant Surgery(mountsinai.org)
79 points by Ovah 6y ago|15 comments
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by Ovah 6y ago
I'm pretty sure everybody was 'opted-in' to this feature by default. Afaik I have never actively enabled it and yet I'm in the leak. I provided FB my phone number for 2FA purposes. I'm dumbfounded if they actually a
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by Ovah 6y ago
The sale of location data by carriers is a USA specific phenomenon afaik.
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by Ovah 6y ago
Making a profit from gene technology is hard. I've heard second hand that many famous and innovative biotech companies have barely been able to turn a profit, year after year.
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by Ovah 6y ago
In the early 2000s Sweden it was not uncommon to have a 'No advertising thank you, except for the IKEA catalog' sticker on your mailbox.
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by Ovah 6y ago
I think theoretical/practical background will allow me to figure stuff out as I go with relative ease. Often times in bioinformatics there are useful vignettes a Google search away. But you are right that specialized tools and librari
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by Ovah 6y ago
Thank you for the practical insight. I suspected that NanoPores are not just yet geared towards hobbyists. I happen to have some bioinformatics knowhow so it's mainly a matter of hardware for me. As both you, u/bioinformatics and
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by Ovah 6y ago
Thank you. The upfront cost of the sequencer sure makes it tempting at first sight. My desired hobbyist use case is to key out plants, lichens and mushrooms that I find in the field. I have the bioinformatics knowhow just need the hardware.
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by Ovah 6y ago
Anyone with hands on experience using NanoPore? I've been thinking about buying one of these to play around with. But anecdotally I've heard that they lack utility or are my concerns just myths? a) they are designed to handle many
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Still reliant on Flash, South African tax agency ships Flash-compatible browser(boingboing.net)
8 points by Ovah 6y ago|1 comments
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by Ovah 6y ago
Thank you. Yeah you hit the nail on its head: it's the environmental conditions that matter. Still it's impressive that a single whole genome has remained largely intact for 100M years or else the cell would not be able to replica
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by Ovah 6y ago
And DNA appears to have a half-life of 521 years. 101 million years is 194 817 half-lifes. Assuming the research is sound I wonder how the bacteria get around that limit.
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by Ovah 6y ago
A sieged Senate just doesn't fall into 'stuff happens'. The last it happened was by the hands and torches of British troops during wartime.
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by Ovah 6y ago
Anything that grinds ongoing Senate election proceedings to a halt by force is a threat to democracy. Regardless of the insurgents political agenda. There are no ifs or buts here. There can still be violence even if nobody gets hurt. Yester
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by Ovah 6y ago
A lot of issues are partisan. What happened yesterday is not. Yesterday both Republicans and Democrats came out and denounced the insurrection in the stronges of terms.
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by Ovah 6y ago
I respectfully disagree that the siege of a national symbol, at the heart of a nation, is a harmless act. This was a substantial threat to democracy as we know it. That a Senate in session is forced to seek refuge due to safety concerns is
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by Ovah 6y ago
Technically speaking depression is not a symptom. It's diagnosis in its own right.
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by Ovah 6y ago
I agree. OP stated it was painful to swallow and I'm guessing the laryngoscope is likely the culprit there. The idea is that because the laryngoscope compresses the base of the tongue this likely results in pain swallowing.
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by Ovah 6y ago
It's probably the actual physical metal laryngoscope that is the cause of the throat pain, and not the tube itself. The laryngoscope is used to pry open the throat so the vocal chords can be clearly sen. It's not violent but there
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by Ovah 6y ago
"I never had any of them tell me to eat yogurt afterwards to repair what they do to your gut biome." At least today 'probiotics' are just like any other health supplement without the proper data to back up regular clinic
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by Ovah 6y ago
Thank you, looks like I stand corrected. A very large part of that is prostate cancer which isn't really significantly affected by alcohol. But you're right, the total increased % mortality of cancer is higher than what I stated..
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by Ovah 6y ago
I agree. Talking about cancer risk is not the way to go to motivate people to stop drinking. There are far more significant and clinically relevant risk from using alcohol than cancer, such as cardiovascular disease.
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by Ovah 6y ago
The baseline risk of getting cancer['s whos risk is increased by alcohol] is somewhat low as it is. Simply refuted the above statement that alcohol doesn't affect cancer risk. EDIT: Thank you asdfasgasdgasdg for the correction.
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by Ovah 6y ago
I mean cancer which risk is affected by alcohol is somewhat low as it is. I simply refuted the above statement that alcohol barely affects cancer incidence. Cardiovascular disease however is the #1 cause of death in the Western world. And h
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by Ovah 6y ago
Here are some actual numbers for risk increase. Heavy drinkers have a 5-fold increased risk of getting head and neck cancer, esofageal cancer, and 2-fold increase for liver cancer. The source also reviews colorectal, breast and head+neck ca
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by Ovah 6y ago
Here's a good start. https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/a...
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by Ovah 6y ago
For those who don't know (including me), IFR means Infection Fatality Rate. "applies to infectious disease outbreaks ... [and] represents the proportion of deaths among all infected individuals, including all asymptomatic and undi

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