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by gwerbret 6y ago
> It feels perfectly consistent to say that we ultimately need to end animal testing but it is okay to use animal products for your literal survival in the meantime. Out of purely academic interest, how are you not bothered by the clear
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by gwerbret 6y ago
For context, Irina Conboy (the senior author of this work) has been publishing on the concept of tissue regeneration for a long time now, but I think it's a bit of an exaggeration to consider this line of work to constitute a reversal
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by gwerbret 6y ago
I agree completely that some people fit that bill; I'd argue however that even for them, the skewed incentives of research success certainly help support that particular approach to fraud. My premise was that most of the people committ
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by gwerbret 6y ago
1) I think the idea of funding "people, not projects" (the Howard Hughes Research Institute's byline; I'm not affiliated with them in any way) is a great one. It would probably involve changing the structure of research
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by gwerbret 6y ago
These issues of research fraud come up often, but the root of the problem is a bit more subtle. In North America at least, biomedical research labs operate largely as fiefdoms of the individual principal investigators (PIs). The actual rese
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by gwerbret 6y ago
The problems with your argument are these: a) the extension had been operating for years, unmolested by the Googlebot, with the expanded permission set b) tightening up the permissions did _not_ solve the problem, indicating clearly that wh
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by gwerbret 6y ago
...except that they didn't say "please".
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A new antibiotic hiding in the gut of a tiny worm(phys.org)
3 points by gwerbret 7y ago|0 comments
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by gwerbret 7y ago
In order to challenge the decision to revoke his developer account in court, he would have to show that Apple has a legal obligation to provide and maintain such accounts. I suspect that Apple has no such obligation, and therefore a fear of
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by gwerbret 7y ago
Speaking of self-promotion, there may be value in adding all necessary disclaimers before you recommend a product.
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by gwerbret 8y ago
This is entirely incorrect. The nose has a surface called an olfactory epithelium, in which are buried the actual sensory apparatus. Olfactory receptor neurons in here respond to the odors themselves, and transmit the information to the olf
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by gwerbret 8y ago
I think that was the point -- if you could make a better living some other way, why be a waiter in SF?
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by gwerbret 8y ago
I think we can agree that placing the lives of thousands at risk just so you can make a quick buck is indefensible, whether perpetrated by a man, a woman, or a green, warty alien. To suggest that criticism is misplaced or unfair because the
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A review of net-zero emissions energy systems(science.sciencemag.org)
1 points by gwerbret 8y ago|0 comments
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by gwerbret 8y ago
>I'm a bit confused by what you mean by "favors" here. Do you mean that an otherwise/previously cannabis-using patient would report more favorable results (and/or fewer negative side effects)? In cases in which t
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by gwerbret 8y ago
To answer some of your questions, one reason why the area has seen so much active research in the past 30 years -- and there's been a lot -- is that the human cellular pathways that respond to cannabis are extremely far-reaching and fa
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by gwerbret 8y ago
It turns out that cannabis is, and has been, extensively researched for years, in Canada and elsewhere (researchers could apply for special access). Thanks to this work, we know that there is one, exactly one robust, reliable clinical appli
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by gwerbret 8y ago
Non-expert here, but I wonder if the obscurity actually points to an machine learning-based solution at Google's end. Let's say that Google has developed a deep learning paradigm to identify -- and ban -- low-value users who viola
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by gwerbret 8y ago
My thoughts exactly. Another problem with RNA is that it is a few orders of magnitude too slow (minutes versus fractions of a second) to account for memory formation. Which is not to say that gene expression is not involved in memory consol
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Using an online video game to test quantum theory(motherboard.vice.com)
1 points by gwerbret 8y ago|0 comments
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by gwerbret 9y ago
This was a Phase 1 study, which means that it was designed exclusively to test safety and tolerability of the agent. This explains both the small sample size and the crossover design. I wouldn't expect there to be even tentative assess
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by gwerbret 9y ago
"Newly discovered"? This is from the Nature Physics page for the original article [1]: Received: 27 October 2015 Accepted: 01 November 2017 Published online: 05 February 2018 That has got to be the longest stretch between submissi
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US government halts study on health effects of coal mining(nature.com)
266 points by gwerbret 9y ago|92 comments