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There's a recent startup which wanted to take taste prediction of luxury drinks to the next level with ML: https://www.mpg.de/18773206/the-signature-of-taste

It doesn't seem like you are very familiar with German politics or culture, but this is definitely an outlier. Freedom of speech is a central part of our constitution. Defamation i…

As a German I have to emphasize that this has no support at all in Germany. The uproar was huge today and its seen as a misuse of power by the politician. Especially as he is not a…

This has no support at all in Germany. The uproar was huge today and its seen as a misuse of power by the politician. Especially as he is not acting as a politician but as represen…

Isn't this, what a housing cooperative are about? They are very common in Germany and seen as valuable cultural heritage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_cooperative

I agree, the headline is definetly not what the research shows. See my other comment on non-neutralizing antibodies. Please change the title to the original one.

Please note, that neutralization by antibodies is only one of the many possible ways how our immune system can take action. Antibody recognition is still possible with the found mu…

Please note, that neutralization by antibodies is only one of the many possible ways how our immune system can take action. Antibody recognition is still possible with the found mu…

This Report from the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium gives a good summary of the prevalent genotypes with UK COVID-19 cases. You can see how the B.1.1.7 mutations N501Y + Δ69-70 an…

In this case, the B.1.1.7 variant has shown to be highly abundant in recent COVID-19 cases in the UK. Much higher compared to other mutations which are tracked too. This is pretty …

Biochemistry by Jeremy M. Berg, John L. Tymoczko and Lubert Stryer is a widespread introduction to Biochemistry.

Nice to see you on the Frontpage, what an amazing project!. I remember you introduced me to HN 7 years or so ago at some MUN meeting hahaha.

No, the proteins are vitrified very rapidly in liquid ethane at approx. -200°C, so that the structure ist conserved.

Yes viruses are not alive and speaking strictly there are no clades or specieses. But I stopped beeing to strict with terminology like this on HN. Most people are not from this fie…

I don't think the article addresses the point right. Yes, there is only one strain of Sars-CoV-2 as the definition of a strain is a strict scientific term. Nevertheless, there are …

I definitely agree about the superiority of RT-PCR and the drawbacks of direct detection. Nevertheless, seroconversion can take between 5-12 days from symptom onset [1]. Therefore …

Yes, there are of course drawbacks. But the direct detection is applicable at the same stage of infection as a rt-pcr and therefore usefull for immediate disease diagnosis. Indirec…

Maybe one should note, that there are two possible Elisa based strategies. Yes, You can present some viral protein to detect antibodies produced by the body after serum conversion,…

Unfortunately viruses are not microorganisms.

That is just not true. There were a few number of cases, where a second test was positive after initial curing. This is being investigated and can be attributed to issues with the …

I worked with Pandas and numpy for different projects, and I really like the low level component way how numpy works. In most cases where I used Pandas I regretted it at some point…

Please remember, that these ontologies describe biological systems and are used as a standard for common nomenclature. It's orders of magnitudes harder to derive an ontology descri…

It's true, that different codons are transcribed with different speed but I've never heard that this would lead to differences in folding. Speed of translation is nevertheless used…

Im not sure if it's legally flawless to upload the published journal article to your Website and open it up to the public. As far as i know, you're only allowed to pass it on a per…