stanford_labrat

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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
What if schools had a minimum-level lottery system based on standardized tests? E.g. "you must score XXXX to be eligible for entry to a T20 school, and you will get in randomly". XXXX+50 for a T10, XXXX+100 for a T5, XXXX-50 for a
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
If you really want to do this I would just do it like we do it in academic labs. Prep the DNA yourself and send to Illumina who will do the sequencing and send you the raw data.
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
As a grad student I have an “official” lab notebook which sits on my lab bench and has all my technical details etc. I also have what I affectionately call my “real” lab notebook which is a stack of loose printer paper at my office desk, fu
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
AAV or adeno-associated virus is a delivery method for getting cas9 mRNA (the code that says, make cas9 protein and do gene editing). Zinc finger nucleases are a similar class of dna editing proteins. In this specific experiment they chose
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
Great comment. I would encourage all PhD students to bomb-proof their thesis topic and build it on as solid a foundation as possible. I chose perhaps a less flashy, relevant, and lucrative topic for this reason but I would rather finish tha
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
Publication rate DURING your PhD is highly variable from field to field...I don't know what field you are in but generally speaking across my 3 fields students are required to have at least 1 from the entire PhD to graduate. Some even
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
Certain experiments are not ethical nor possible to do in human subjects, so scientists rely on model systems to interrogate biological questions. It has become somewhat common for people to immediately dismiss scientific findings on the ba
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
Well clearly, the first thing to do is think very very hard about "what would I do if I were a world-renowned economist".
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
There is a biological feedback loop that dictates how hungry you are via hormones such as ghrelin and leptin. My little brother is about 50lbs lighter than me at the same height and we have very different builds and all his attempts to bulk
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
I remember doing these at Blackrock and JP Morgan. Talk about tedious...
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
I also used to ascribe to the belief that rugby had fewer concussions (as a collegiate/semi-pro rugby player) but I wasn't aware of these data, thanks for sharing. In retrospect, it makes sense to me. I think the nature of rugby c
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
In life sciences the qualifying exam is an oral exam where they can in theory ask you anything. In comparison with for example the physics qualifying exam which (as I’m told) is a traditional paper exam, just ridiculously difficult.
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/iq-bell-curve-midwit hard to find a good example that is funny while also not crass/political, but they generally go something like this: https://i.imgflip.com/5dh26p
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
Thank you I wasn't aware, appreciate it.
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
Edit: link to my previous comment with a list of papers from the last time a similar thread was posted for those interested. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37018392 This was a busy summer for developmental biology, fu
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
As someone who has been to nearly all 50 states I’m going to have to disagree. California CAN be nice, but overall is overrated and most definitely not the “best”. Even under the understanding that each state has its own advantages and disa
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
Some papers if you're interested: "Modeling post-implantation stages of human development into early organogenesis with stem-cell-derived peri-gastruloids" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article&#x
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
Was recently reflecting on this about my own undergrad admissions cycle. Got me wondering: what percent of students at these institutions are there simply off of academic talent and not some of the larger extraneous factor such as legacy&#x
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
maybe apocryphal but I was always told that hurling was designed to strengthen young boys to make them good warriors. basically lots of running and fighting.
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
I found used condoms on and around my car not once but twice, and that was enough for me…
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
If anyone was confused at first glance as I was, these are the mean SAT scores nationwide and not at the ivy league institutions. I was very surprised for a moment to think the average SAT score at these colleges was in the 1200s...
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
i don't understand how a presentation like this (and by extension, the company) can somehow accrue nearly 70 billion in market cap. perhaps it is so genius i cannot even comprehend.
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
I'm a PhD student in one of the mentioned labs. This week has been a little crazy since Magda gave a talk at the annual ISSCR conference announcing her progress on what she called a "synthetic embryo" a term that the field ha
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
I’m going to assume you live near the coast, probably in the Bay Area or NYC or Seattle? I think as I’ve gotten older I’ve realized the American Dream has changed. The coastal cities are no longer available even for relatively middle class
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
I am merely a military/tactical gear hobbyist so anyone with actual subject matter expertise feel free to chime in. In this specific case humvees were particularly ineffective against the IED-based warfare being conducted in Iraq and A
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
I don’t know if 8 PhDs is entirely accurate, biotech teams are a thing and usually there are a good mix of non-PhD technicians who support an individual project.
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by stanford_labrat 3y ago
I have mixed feelings about the whole stuck with your major from day 1 scenario. It is simultaneously appealing and frightening to have to make such a major decision that early in your life (which will have a strong impact on the other 70 o
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by stanford_labrat 4y ago
The presidents play COD zombies is so funny. The script author is really witty and the dialogue flows very well.
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by stanford_labrat 4y ago
> "in Austin which, for example, their roads feel more like being in a MadMax movie than orderly transportation." I'm sorry but having lived in both the Bay and Austin/Dallas I disagree. A guy tried to ram me with his
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by stanford_labrat 4y ago
To give some perspective, nowadays all PhD students generally take something called “Responsible Conduct of Research”. This is an ethics class and it specifically covers things like falsifying data, plagiarism, how to ethically work in anim

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