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by epmaybe 9y ago
"We are not able to make any definitive claims that this compound is safe..." Is this quote taken out of context? Because I thought the first step of any sort of human trial of a drug is to determine its safety. Intuitively I can&
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by epmaybe 9y ago
This seems incorrect because as far as I know Theranos didn't innovate. Their machines didn't work, did they?
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by epmaybe 9y ago
That reminds me of my own story regarding negative numbers. I was super young, maybe second grade (7, 8 yrs old?). Family friends had dinner with us, and their kids who were maybe 5 years older than me were talking about "negative&quot
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by epmaybe 9y ago
The one thing that drives me away is that while I feel like I am improving one's quality of life, much of my experience in medicine has been seeing my mentors and role models save one's life. It's probably the one thing I w
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by epmaybe 9y ago
From the article, 29- and 21- letters improvement in visual acuity. I believe this means at least 4-6 rows improvement from the chart you read off of. Think about that for a second. Nearly blind, or actually blind, to being able to read aga
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by epmaybe 9y ago
When you say abused, do you mean that the campaign did not violate it in 2012 but took advantage of the lenience Facebook allowed them? Thanks
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by epmaybe 9y ago
Signal processing is a fascinating field that I wish I had explored further in college
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Thanks! I figured it must have been that tumors express nucleolin on the surface rather than normally inside of the nucleolus.
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by epmaybe 9y ago
I think it depends on the type of autoimmune disease. Some are fairly obvious, such as alopecia areata.
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by epmaybe 9y ago
Here is the actual paper, with abstract: https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4071 Major things that are interesting just from the abstract: 1) their targeting dna aptamer binds to nucleolin (how this isn't binding
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by epmaybe 9y ago
Yeah...nucleolin is pretty ubiquitously expressed in most cells. How specific is their aptamer (antibody?) ? Additionally, this is a similar idea to chemo embolization procedures (something I know is done in the US for some liver metastasis
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by epmaybe 9y ago
I think the main reason we can't break down cellulose is because we don't have the enzymes to do so. It's not as if cellulose is actually all that different to polysaccharides we are able to digest, it simply has beta 1-&gt
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by epmaybe 9y ago
It almost feels as if more universities should have two different "introductory" CS courses: one for non-majors, and another for majors. I would however express that in my CS curriculum (only 6 years ago) we did not start using C+
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by epmaybe 9y ago
Appreciate your perspective. One small quibble is that you saying you are Christian did not really aid your point, as far as I know. As in, without it your argument still makes sense to me.
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by epmaybe 9y ago
Only thing I'm bothered by is the speed of the fingerprint scanner. It's the same scanner from the 5s, so 1st gen touch ID. Makes for a less than ideal wait time for what is a generally snappy phone. Battery life is fantastic as w
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by epmaybe 9y ago
It goes back to basically any medication that acts on G Protein Coupled Receptors (of which opioid Receptors fall under). If given the same dose for over 10 days, by day 3 you are seeing a significant loss of analgesic effect.
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by epmaybe 9y ago
> paying "attention" to blood vessels and other structures that are relevant to humans Why is that necessarily a good thing? The point of machine learning is to unveil relationships that we may or may not have thought of. For a
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by epmaybe 9y ago
There are also some interesting ideas in the interventional field regarding minimally invasive embolization of the left gastric artery to reduce hunger via inhibition of ghrelin production.
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by epmaybe 9y ago
I'd argue something a bit different. Coding is far more accessible today and far more visible as a field one could get a job in than ever before. As such, you have way more students trying to learn some introductory CS. Maybe the propo
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by epmaybe 9y ago
since nobody mentioned already, there is an enjoyable film that was recently made about these two individuals called "War Dogs".
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Many critics agree that the DSM-V has become unduly influenced by industry (pharmaceutical, insurance, but mainly pharmaceutical). However, keep in mind that the idea was that insurance base their payments off of the DSM, not the other way
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That brings up an interesting question: what does the CDC do to predict strain prevalence each year?
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Then hire a marketing team to make it sexier.
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I didn't know that, but it makes me pretty excited to play with one :)
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Fun fact, one of the original designers of the pebble timeline ui (Itai Vonshak) works on Intel's new Vaunt smart glasses prototype as head of products at the New Devices Group.
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by epmaybe 9y ago
Thank you for the explanation! I had figured that laser light was indeed different than normal light rays, but couldn't remember my undergrad optics to explain why.
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In reading the article I see that they are using VCSE Laser. Does that answer the question?
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by epmaybe 9y ago
I watched the Verge video this morning where they tried to explain how the hologram projector works, but I am still confused. How can it ensure a sharp image shining directly through your own intraocular lens (not the glasses themselves) to
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I'm not sure I understand, could you elaborate?
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I wanted to update you with some new information I remembered. There is already legislation that allows for this, called the Compassionate Use Act. The difference being that the FDA is required to be involved, giving final say on if the doc

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