jnotwell

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by jnotwell 4y ago
Reflecting on the state of the world always leaves me thinking of this[0]: 30 March 1973 Dear Mr. Nadeau: As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desola
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by jnotwell 5y ago
This advice is spot on! I haven't worked on this problem, but others in my graduate lab did. If you're interested in a tool that automates some of this process (takes VCF as input; filters variants based on frequency; you'll
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by jnotwell 5y ago
If you're interested in the subject, I highly recommend Tomorrow's Table [1], a book by Pamela Ronald, a plant pathologist and geneticist, and Raoul Adamchak, her husband and an organic farmer (disclaimer: my fiancé works in Pam
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by jnotwell 6y ago
This comment is not consistent with other data. It appears that Russia has a different distribution of coronavirus strains than the rest of Europe [0], but the strains in Russia are certainly found elsewhere. If hundreds of thousands of Rus
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by jnotwell 6y ago
No one with any credibility is suggesting 2 months... As of October, "The confirmed examples worldwide [of re-infections] could possibly be counted on your fingers" [0]. Immune memory cells, which are more potent than antibodies,
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by jnotwell 6y ago
The success of dexamethasone [1], compared to the increasingly conflicted results of remdesivir [2], argues against this view. [1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2021436 [2] https://bl
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by jnotwell 7y ago
While they covered copyrighted material, the "Safe Harbor" provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) [1] were essential for any user-created content to be hosted by third parties on the web. I wonder if speech coul
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by jnotwell 8y ago
Track spikes for shorter events have included a rigid plate - sometimes made of carbon fiber - for as long as I can remember. The Vaporfly 4% could simply be viewed as a technology transfer to shoes intended for longer distances.