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by patall 8y ago
CRISPR will mostly likely win the chemistry (same as PCR) prize at some point. Maybe Wednesday, maybe in 10 years when the committee can finally decide whether Doudna and Charpetier deserve it more, or Zhang or any of the other scientists i
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by patall 8y ago
It quite often is actually. Until today, about half of all human genes have never been described in any detail at all. We do not know what function they serve, only that they exist and that most of those are probably not that important. The
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by patall 8y ago
Let me turn around your sentences. The US benefits probably far less from developing cutting-edge weaponry than from curing a deadly but rare health problem that kills a couple of hundred thousand people each year. It should be noted that
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Solving the genome puzzle – about the UK rare disease initiative(theguardian.com)
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by patall 8y ago
From what I have heard, there are a number of challenges connected here that have to do that birds are usually not a model organism and we therefore lack certain techniques (and knowledge) on how to handle their cells (especially stem cells
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by patall 8y ago
> The passenger pigeon only bred in large flocks and by the time everyone realized they were on the decline, there were no more large flocks. So do penguins, gulls and terns, yet they can be bred in zoos. Also, the big colonies of the p
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by patall 8y ago
Good catch, thank you. In retrospective, I should have written 'to prove that there is no effect' since for that you would need a much bigger (and more diverse) cohort over a longer time frame. If you have a strong effect, this is
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by patall 8y ago
Please ignore my irony, but good luck funding that. Almost no well known food item would/has ever go through something like that as it would set you back several (tens) millions. The best you can hope for is a study where people report
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by patall 8y ago
I could not really believe the 521 year thing, so I had to look it up. Its 521 years for a 242 bp fragment (even nature news reports it like you though) which ends up at a degradation rate of 5.50 × 10–6 per year per base pair (and they est
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by patall 8y ago
Just to give some perspective, not all your visa problems are because you have a weak passport: As a European, that happened to me when I needed a work visa for the US (for 2 month unpaid internship, J-1 visa). Only had to wait 20 min thoug
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by patall 8y ago
Its good that more than one way exist for something like this, though I personally prefer something like zenodo, were every record automatically gets a DOI attached. (Zenodo is limited to 50GB though)
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by patall 8y ago
But often it was rather some way of crossing the water that was that driving force. Oxford and Cambridge come to mind, or in Germany: Frankfurt (furt = ford), Erfurt, Saarbrücken (brücke = bridge).
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by patall 8y ago
Is it? For me that sound more like 'if everybody can't succeed, then make sure you succeed at the cost of decreasing the level for everybody else'. If I am taking the good teachers from the other schools, I am not fixing anyt
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by patall 8y ago
The common cold that you get every 12 to 18 month is a different thing than influenza. A lot of people die of it but the actual incidence is not that high that you get it every year (every 10 years would be quite often actually).
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by patall 8y ago
In theory, there is some law that should prevent rent increases too much but you would not get anything like that anymore now. Now you get fixed term contracts and after that rent will increase by whatever amount is possible. The time you d
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by patall 8y ago
Because before, it was even more affordable (prices doubled in the last ten years already) and before that there was no Berlin (in the form we know it today ...)
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by patall 8y ago
Exactly. I am also super annoyed by all the cheap shared bikes that now clutter our city and are very often parked in the middle of the pedestrian path. Same for shared cars that more often than not are parked in a non parking zone so that
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by patall 8y ago
You mean because Google did not have just that until two years ago. /s Why does such an article not at least mention Google code? The digital memory is short.
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by patall 8y ago
> The world's largest diamond miner is doing the unthinkable: Selling stones produced in a laboratory. Sorry, but that is some plain wrong headlining. Maybe its a first that they sell them as jewelry but De Beers is producing (and s
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by patall 8y ago
> In the context of climate change, when Earth's orbit becomes more eccentric (our path over the next 200k years) seasonal changes increase in magnitude. Isn't that only so on one of the hemispheres? Right now, earth is slightl
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by patall 8y ago
What I always wondered about is that this generally assumes that classes are assigned with an equal (human level) error probability. While this is certainly the case in heavily curated example dataset, many real world scenarios only consist
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by patall 9y ago
That (about Germany) is only partially true. Sure, the whole german state made the reunification financially possible but most of the state owned stuff (economic land & buildings etc) ended up being owned by the Bund and not the federal
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by patall 9y ago
More or less correct, the parent comment is nonsense. There are multiple special types of cancer that can be specifically targeted now (for example CML), though few of those are chemotherapies aside some improved targeting mechanisms via an
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by patall 9y ago
Yes and no because the article is also about the future possibilities of getting kids with desired traits (as you can generate those much better when you have a truly unlimited potential of egg cells). And there was for example recently a c
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by patall 9y ago
And how do you explain that basically every village in the European Alps (or any other mountain range) has old pictures of how their glacier looked ~100 years ago, where you also see how much lower the tree line was etc. Or all the local le
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by patall 9y ago
But it goes even further. In Germany, due to the former divide of the country, lots of big companies like Siemens or Osram have left the state where they were founded and moved to somewhere else. Because corporate tax is paid on a federal s
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by patall 9y ago
The current de facto status is that the concept of species does not exist anymore, or more precisely, it mostly only still exists for historical reasons and coherence with it. When talking about genetic identity nowadays there is only the (
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Kipoi – a deep learning model zoo for genomics(kipoi.org)
1 points by patall 9y ago|0 comments
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by patall 9y ago
So, you think those vehicles would be restricted to the country side? I find that very hard to believe. Especially suburban areas will be doomed by broad adaption of this kind of technology. And while you may now see the advantage in remote
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Only a dozen vaquita porpoises remain(news.mongabay.com)
2 points by patall 9y ago|0 comments

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