cgiles

15 ms·

1. 91.▲
   by cgiles 9y ago

   IME, in academic biology, the answer is generally no. Personally, I do use, but it isn't a result of competition, but rather a desire to achieve the most I can for a goal I care about. I don't feel pressured in any way to make thi
2. 92.▲
   by cgiles 9y ago

   > a handful of people binge drink to come down Biologist here, and yep, that was the only real discernible downside to me. Especially when I was new to the drug (Adderall) and didn't know how to time the doses and therefore took the
3. 93.▲
   by cgiles 9y ago

   Thanks for the links, I will check them out. An embarassing correction: the 450K is (as you well know) not a SNP array. Can you tell I've been doing more than my fair share of methylation stuff recently? The fundamental problem I have
4. 94.▲
   by cgiles 9y ago

   1 & 2: This is setting the bar rather high, no? I hate GWAS, but am surrounded by people who do them all the time. To show any kind of function for a SNP is hard, to do it in humans is very, very hard for something like this involving n
5. 95.▲
   by cgiles 9y ago

   > if it were true, we would see all sorts of genetic correlations where one good trait systematically boosts a bad trait. This is almost never true I see it as almost axiomatically true, but I think the difference is you are taking a nar