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The Nanopore Minion is still a thing, but it's sequencing and has higher error rates than competing short-read methods like Illumina's sequence by synthesis. https://nanoporetech.c…

I wasn't aware of the variability in thymic involution. I guess most studies focus on averages. If you have links to more information about these outliers I'd be very interested in…

Those are interesting cases. A similar but more ubiquitous strangeness is somatic mosaicism, specifically in the brain where it seems that "no two neurons are genetically alike." I…

Age is probably the biggest influence on a "healthy" immune system. I haven't kept up with recent research, but if memory serves the immune repertoire (diversity of T and B cell re…

I'm surprised as well. I thought the problem with cancer is that the immune system doesn't react/detect it and therefore might not provide a discernible signal.

Microsoft Research was a partner in the joint collaboration. Pretty sure this was the research that culminated in the T-Detect Lyme product that Adaptive Biotech launched last year…

It’s what you think it is, and it happens to more than just mice. I toured a bioengineering lab where they were actively severing the spines of chimpanzees to perform fiber rerouti…

That's an interesting point and I completely agree, but wouldn't America's already real lack of "supply" buffer this a bit? I have to wait several weeks to get into my personal fam…

I was surprised by a probiotic addition the other day as well. It was added to a vegan protein powder I bought off the shelf.

Are you insinuating that I didn't read the comment? I take such offense to this.

How else do we dissuade people who don't read an article from jumping to ignorant conclusions and filling the message board with tripe?

The article didn't focus solely on quins. An example of a different class: "Researchers have shown, for example, that aminoglycoside antibiotics can cause deafness by damaging mito…

Directly from the article. "Until recently, investigations into the side effects of antibiotics have focused on how the drugs disrupt the human microbiome, says James Collins, a me…