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by abcc8 6y ago
I especially like Tasting History because of the breadth of recipes featured. They range from delicious, Pumpkin Pie, to educational but unappealing, Spartan Black Broth.
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by abcc8 6y ago
I always very much enjoy these posts with many upvotes and few comments.
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by abcc8 6y ago
It may be that those who would trash talk or incessantly complain aren't focusing as much on how they can improve their performance?
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by abcc8 6y ago
This test is a screening test and thus can never be used to diagnose someone. Only a diagnostic test can be used to diagnose someone. Screening tests like these will represent a paradigm shift in cancer surveillance and as such will require
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by abcc8 6y ago
I imagine that there will be a longitudinal trial for this test. Individuals will be tested at set intervals and the test results will be correlated with clinical outcomes. It is possible that enough blood samples have already been collecte
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by abcc8 6y ago
Yes, the positive predictive value of the test may be low, with the PPV being equal to the number of true positives divide by the number of true positives plus the number of false positives. Since this test is designed to identify cancer ve
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by abcc8 7y ago
While it is likely possible to do the work required for a PhD remotely, I am unsure that an advisor would wish to mentor a remote PhD student. Finding an advisor willing to work with you (as well as school willing to admit you remotely) are
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by abcc8 7y ago
>“My argument is with people who dismiss intelligent design without considering, it seems to me — it’s widely dismissed in my world of academia as some sort of theological put up job — it’s an absolutely serious scientific argument,” Gel
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by abcc8 7y ago
The codon->amino acid table is not always expressed in the same way within human cells. Mitochondria utilize different codons for the same amino acids compared to the nuclear genome.
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by abcc8 7y ago
Thank you for your reply, it was very helpful!
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by abcc8 7y ago
Where would Sphongle fit in on that list? I like Sphongle but do not know much about the genre.
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by abcc8 7y ago
We refer to such data as deidentified.
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by abcc8 7y ago
Many 'crazy' ideas are supported by at least some evidence that is rational and grounded in reality. I doubt such evidence exists for this claim.
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by abcc8 8y ago
Most animal experiments are performed only if an effect size large enough to be ascertained using a small number of mice (i.e. <10, typically) is predicted based on in vitro or other models. Grant funded researchers do not typically have
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by abcc8 8y ago
I'd suggest starting with the references cited in the article and reading the references cited in those articles, as relevant.
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by abcc8 8y ago
Do you have any examples of this you could point to online? I am looking at different visualization tools for various NGS-based analyses currently.
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by abcc8 8y ago
In this example, humans would have to willingly propagate whatever crops have been altered to include the gene drive and have reduced yield. It would be trivially easy to just plan a different cultivar of whatever transgenic crop was affect
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by abcc8 8y ago
The hemophilia community was devastated by HIV and hepatitis C. Anyone considering transfusion therapy should be very cautious.
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by abcc8 8y ago
I refer students and colleagues to unpaywall.org - they have a great chrome extension that will take you to open access versions of papers with a single click when you're viewing the paper on pubmed, the publisher's site, etc. The
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by abcc8 8y ago
Hate to be that guy, but the headline should reflect that DeepMind was able to generate better predictions of protein structure than were the other contest entrants. No entrants, including DeepMind were able to perfectly predict protein str
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by abcc8 8y ago
Yes, it is very easy to identify paternal mitochondrial inheritance in the current era. The catch is that a very low proportion of the population has mitochondrial genomic sequencing (currently). Typically, those who do have their mitochond
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by abcc8 8y ago
It would have been unethical to make a less 'hedgey' claim. The authors did not test repeated doses, nor did they test the magnitude, severity, duration, etc of allergic responses.
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by abcc8 8y ago
Here is a link to the study (Open access at PNAS): http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/31/E7379.full.pdf?casa_...
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by abcc8 8y ago
I used to work retail in high school and noticed that people suddenly became deferential if I was carrying a clipboard with paper attached.
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by abcc8 8y ago
23andme has consent to contact a majority of the 5 million who have used their service. It is likely that those who run the 300 thousand database cannot legally contact those who have submitted samples or have no mechanism whereby that numb
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by abcc8 8y ago
What prevents entities who can afford to lose the most tokens from establishing what is listed as 'correct'? What mechanisms are there to prevent those with the greatest token number from establishing what is accurate?