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I guess it depends on who the coauthors and PI are - some academic mentors can be overly trusting and ‘hands-off.’ A lone medical student’s self published paper shouldn’t be worth …

If it had killed 11,000 people we’d be hearing much more about it. It made news that Ebola hit a record high of 1,000 cases this week.

The police are human too and often bored on shift. The world needs more whimsy! I understand your perspective, but viewing police as solely as a potential threat is not spreading w…

Saw the same thing first hand with Pathology data. Image analysis is far more straightforward problem than fMRI, but sorry, I do not trust your AI model that matches our pathologis…

Yes! This plays into my favorite pet theory - that herpesviruses (and/or other microbes) are the cause of Alzheimers: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5457904/pdf/nihms85..…

This paper gets ripped into in my favorite podcast, TWiV (This Week in Virology)! Essentially, yes, neomycin in the nose, if timed perfectly, can activate the innate immune system,…

also am curious as to the dark side!

If you waited 8 years to marry her, I'm not surprised she moved on...

Yes! Looking for gene target failure rates is a valid, albeit indirect way of quantifying variants. You will only be able to detect variants this way if the variant contains a muta…

Not sure what the water treatment plant steps are downstream, but I can tell you I've been processing SARS-CoV-2 positive wastewater samples for ages and managed not to catch COVID…

We're working on it! Demultiplexing the signal is tricky though. Currently, labs have two main tools available - RT-qPCR and tiled amplicon sequencing. RT-qPCR provides cycle thres…

We found Omicron genomes in my county's wastewater. Give it like, two days and it'll hit the news. SOURCE: I work in a leading U.S. wastewater testing lab.

Folks have been testing wastewater for legal and illegal drugs for years ( https://score-cost.eu has an interesting report if you're interested). There's been talk amongst Police D…