Ovah

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by Ovah 6y ago
I'm open to pushback. Nobel prizes usually reward basic science over applications thereof. My understanding is that Feng Zhang didn't discover anything fundamental. Sure, he was first with applying CRISPR to eucaryotic cells. Whic
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I'm interested in what way this could be a logical fallacy. Would you care to expand?
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Correlation is indeed not causation. However all four statements hold true for correlation. And at least alcohol can cause cancer. - Bad diet: for example red meat increases risk of colorectal cancer. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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by Ovah 6y ago
Drugs may only be prescribed for an approved set of diseases. Using a drug for a new disease indication without a study to back it up falls"experimental treatment". In other words, using a drug for an unapproved indication is doi
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47% of all deaths are from nursing homes (July 8th). https://www.svd.se/fortsatt-stor-andel-doda-pa-svenska-aldre...
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by Ovah 6y ago
Without having a source to back it up, I'm guessing that a month ago tests were more scarce. So you had to have a strong clinical indication to get tested.
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by Ovah 6y ago
In old Swedish (~19th century) nouns were divided into three grammatical genus: femininum, masculinum and neutrum. Dead objects could be referred to as either he or she: - earth, sun and time are feminine words and can to this day still be
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by Ovah 6y ago
Apparently, the science backs this up. This paper shows that the mortality of calves decreases if they get colostrum. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26995131
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by Ovah 6y ago
This reminded me of neonatal lupus. Lupus is an autoimmune disease where your own antibodies attacks your tissues. In neonatal lupus, the newborn is born with lupus ... because materal autoimmune antibodies are able to cross the placental b
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by Ovah 7y ago
There are many many bacterial enzymes known to be able to able to break down plastics such as PET etc. But one bottleneck has been low/slow catalytic activity, so it sounds like they passed that hurdle which is impressive! However, a n
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by Ovah 7y ago
T2D patients also have a reduced amount of insuline-producing beta cells. At diagnosis, there's been a 50% destruction of insuline-producing beta-cells. The destruction progresses with the disease.
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by Ovah 8y ago
'Ectopic Pregnancy' is the more general term for pregnancy outside the uterus. Found this, hope it helps. 'Typically an abdominal pregnancy is a secondary implantation which means that it originated from a tubal (less common
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by Ovah 8y ago
Same goes for eutrophication. At least initially before more adapted species take over, disturbing the existing ecosystem and reducing diversity. Or even causing anoxic, dead waters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoxic
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The New York Times mistakenly publishes an article modified by joke software(bbc.com)
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by Ovah 9y ago
Far from all hereditary disease are easy to rule based on genetic tests. You need to differentiate between Mendelian and Complex genetic disorders. While genetic tests are useful to indentiy disease caused by a single allele (Mendelian diso
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by Ovah 9y ago
The described treatment degrades mRNA; no genetic modifications are made.
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Years ago I attended a lecture on Toxoplasmosis gondii. Intriguing (unattributed) points made by the scientist: 1) there's a higher prevalance of infection in car crash victims than control 2) by hijacking dendritic cells (blood immune
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by Ovah 9y ago
The HN title is slightly off; the full name of the prize is "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine".
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Contrary to what the article states, elevated levels of lactic acid per say do not cause acidification. In fact, the increase in lactic acid correlates to but is not the causation of acidosis. According to Robergs (2004) [1], it is the hydr
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by Ovah 9y ago
I find the word probiotic to be inherently problematic. It includes any and all microorganisms that have a single positive health benefit, whether or not they're detrimental in other regards. That if a bacteria were to penerate gut epi
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Both. To make a project deadline, the department head signed a waiver to bring on personal without security clearance. Apparently, companies may subscribe to the vehicle registry. One batch contained people with protected identities. Instea
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(2009) Carl Linnaeus Invented the Index Card(sciencedaily.com)
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The Wiki statement that Europe has banned antibiotics for growth promotion since 2006 may be true legally, but not in practice. In fact, Denmark has used antibiotics to prevent infections in pig farming[1] up until at least the summer of
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Today there exists a multitude of different genome sequencing techniques, and distinct complexities are associated with each method. However, the number of pairs is today seldomly the main complexity. Sanger sequencing was one of the first