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by searine 8y ago
>CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing causes lots of mutations This is still a very controversial statement, and far from definitively proven. Yes, even with a nature paper. I also take issues with the phrase "lots". So far this effect has
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Difficult to implement, difficult to identify patients. Phages are specific to particular bacteria, more specific than an antibiotic. This means you need to develop many more varieties of phage to cover the same ground. These phages are per
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Can we finally just admit that increased emissions standards are putting lipstick on a pig? ICE vehicles will never be clean energy. We need to be investing more in the transition to EVs and improving electricity generation in general.
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Honestly, we should be focusing on Ganymede. It is also covered in ice with an ocean. Europa looks good but it is bombarded by direct radiation from Jupiter. Enceladus also looks good but it has really low gravity, and is farther from earth
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>This tech is key for Personalized Advertising where consumers are inserted into still and video adverting in place of current spokespersons and side-by-side with celebrities. What a boring dystopia. Seriously though, if a company ever d
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>If the cost of food doubles, your cost of a meal out doesn't double, but merely increases by a lesser amount. Easy to say on a full stomach.
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Phage therapy is as effective as antibiotics but it is not as convenient as chemotherapy. One of the problems with phage therapy is precision. You have to know roughly what kind of bacteria is causing the infection. To know that it takes te
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This reads like scientific fanfiction. While I always appreciate novel and iconclastic ideas in biology, this makes leaps and bounds of logic without supporting evidence.
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>used on purpose on civilians during a conflict It wasn't used on purpose. 2,4-D, the defoliant used, wasn't the carcinogen and wasn't sprayed on people intentionally. The carcinogen in this case was a dioxin contaminate i
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Neat article, but I'm skeptical of machine learning to make art easier. I spent some time using PaintsChainer, a ML tool to autofill colors based on a few starting choices and the results were... rough. The problem with ML art, is that
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I wanted to believe it could be true, but that's the beauty of science. Test. Test and re-test. If the conclusion isn't want you want it to be, refine the accuracy of your test and increase sample size. If you test is already at m
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DNA is inherited from parent to offspring. While new changes occur, a large amount of the DNA between the two are the same, compared to non-related organisms. This allows us to reconstruct the history, or in cases where there is less data,
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> Ebola is scary because it is one of the most contagious diseases. Ebola isn't particularly contagious. It has a R0 of ~2. Measles for example is 10.
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> assuming one can make them hard-to-attribute Luckily bio-weapons come with their own tracking tags. From DNA we can reconstruct its origin. So it is not ideal for clandestine operations.
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That suction arm/grabber is Alien Queen level uncomfortable. I love it.
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Or you just peg USDC to the dollar so traditional monetary controls still apply. I don't know how exactly you'd do that but I'm sure you could figure out something clever. The advantage here is triple-ledger system, not the m
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What conjecture? This is empirical. The researchers are observing the DNA from different orders of life (based on their extant species) and comparing them. They report their quantitative similarity. What about that is not factual?
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Evolution functions on a model of "punctuated equilibrium". Lots of time doing nothing, with sporadic bursts of change. So there is more than enough time for evolution to occur, even on a drastically shortened earth timeline. Most
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Yes, as other have said "convergent evolution" is a concept in biology. However, in the case of hemoglobin this is unlikely because this gene is particularly large, and sensitive to change. As a result it is highly "conserved
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I honestly don't believe Trump had much to do this initial result. Moon Jae In spearheaded this effort, and is the one guiding it. This meeting is 99% South Korean in planning and in execution. Trump was used by SK as their barking dog
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by searine 9y ago
I agree. The problem in genomics isn't how fast alignment is going, it is where to put the gobs and gobs of data. The bottleneck in speed is how fast you can flip a DNA sequencer, which right now with an illumina Novaseq that bottlenec
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Online dating is just 90% random chance that both parties will be compatible, which is why quick swipe apps are so popular now (and what OKC has recently transitioned to as well). It allows for a greater throughput of matches, so you can ev
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I signed up for the "The League" a few months ago. I appreciate that they added in options to be discrete, by excluding people at your employer or friends on facebook. Not that that kind of discretion was necessary, or worth the p
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It is worth noting that this publication is part of the epic "Pan-Cancer Atlas" by the "The Cancer Genome Atlas Network". http://www.cell.com/pb-assets/consortium/PanCancerAtlas/PanC... It
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Because that worked so well last time?
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Constellation/SLS was important when there wasn't a commercial launch market because the programs maintained technical and manufacturing know-how. Now that there are several competitive and reliable commercial launch providers who
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Cancel SLS. Cancel Orion. Mass produce satellites and space station modules instead.
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It's the end of young-people-facebook. FB isn't cool and hasn't been for awhile now. Old-people-facebook will cling to life because it is part of the media-ecosystem now. So I won't expect a steep dropoff, but rather a s
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I find that with audio non-fiction I may gloss over some details but the momentum is better so I read more overall, so there is a net gain. If I really want to study a subject I will listen to the audiobook, and then re-read it in text form
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>biology is weird and noisy and a hard but valuable row to hoe. I think this is definitely the general feeling among genomicists. We've all learned hard lessons about the difficulty of finding the ground truth. A running gag among m

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