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by folli 7y ago
DNA based life is essentially build on the basis of RNA based life with the extra twist of long-term storage
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by folli 7y ago
https://www.gore.com/products/industries/life-sciences/medic...
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by folli 7y ago
How are the independent investigators financed if not mainly through taxes?
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by folli 7y ago
Off topic: this website is unreadable without ad-block
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Google Play Award Winners 2019(blog.google)
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by folli 7y ago
Au contraire, you should be eating a modest dose of nuts to avoid the development of peanut allergy: https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/eating-nuts-in-pre...
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by folli 7y ago
malnourishment != undernourishment I'm pretty sure this is not specific for the modern age, but perhaps the shift from undernourishment to malnourishment is.
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by folli 7y ago
This is actually a really interesting point. In some ways even moderatly poor people in a Western country are better of than the Caesars of Ancient Rome, especially the availability of medical care is something I would never want to trade.
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by folli 7y ago
What was your expected outcome?
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by folli 8y ago
This sounds like some anti-vaxx reasoning.
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by folli 8y ago
The article explicitly mentions St. Moritz (which you could call the epicenter of romansh) as a german speaking town.
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by folli 8y ago
The pricing issue of gene therapy is quite interesting. A comparable treatment which is licensed now (Zolgensma, Novartis), has an estimated price tag of $2 million [1]. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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by folli 8y ago
To coat an entire crimescene with synthesized oligos will be prohibitively expensive.
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by folli 8y ago
How does this work? Are you mutating the sequences in some random, but reversible way?
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by folli 8y ago
"Maybe you should reconsider your idea"
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by folli 8y ago
CRISPR is unrelated to Zolgensma, which uses an Adeno-associated virus to deliver a functioning version of the SMN1 gene.
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by folli 8y ago
Building a city on a known lava field?
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by folli 8y ago
Does such an idea really exist? One that would truly survive this approach? It's a bit of a Hackernews meme, but just look at the infamous comment about Dropbox ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 ).
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by folli 8y ago
Maybe they'll succeed were Switzerland has just recently failed: https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/613107/a-major...
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by folli 8y ago
It also explains why all the links are dead
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by folli 8y ago
Why would you consider smoking cessation not a medical advance? Prevention plays a big role in modern medicine and is based on medical advancement, how else would one even know that e.g. smoking is linked to cancer, an active lifestyle decr
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by folli 8y ago
Maybe OP regarded them as too common when he was a kid, and only realized as an adult how much of a treat they were.
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by folli 8y ago
This is still my favorite take on the eVoting topic: https://xkcd.com/2030/
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by folli 8y ago
OTOH, he gave us Jurassic Park, that likely influenced legions of kids to be interested in Science and Biology.
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by folli 8y ago
I don't agree, because there certainly are some objective measures of well being, such as access to nutrition, clean drinking water, life expectancy, exposure to violence etc. that hold true across any age in time. Most of these measur
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by folli 8y ago
I find it interesting that they are able to sell them cheaper than new mattresses, which I assume are built in a high-throughput factory.
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by folli 8y ago
Thank you, I did assume that the XKCD graph was oversimplified, but I didn't know about the skepticism.
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by folli 8y ago
See also: https://xkcd.com/1732/
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by folli 8y ago
When in the last 10k years have we ever seen a rise in CO2-concentration and global mean temperature with a similar speed?
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by folli 8y ago
It's definetely being looked at, for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18215090/ (paywalled).

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