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It sounds like you want a dictation mic. Philips’s SpeechMike and OM System’s (formerly Olympus) RecMic are big in the healthcare space. My SpeechMike is wireless with a USB dongle…

The periodic table poster under "High binding problems" is billed as evidence of model limitations, but I wonder if it just suggests that 4o is a fan of "Look Around You".

I'm a little disappointed that their linked preprint doesn't appear to include any molecular biology; i.e. they don't actually try to synthesize any of their predicted sequences an…

A tangent: does anyone have recommendations for a library for easy Swift-Rust interop? This is a cool tool, but I’d much rather make a GUI natively with e.g. SwiftUI and then call …

All sorts of offtopic prompts are unsurprisingly generating nonsensical answers, but even prompting with "lecture notes on clathrin-mediated endocytosis" yielded: "In the case of c…

Global models of gene expression for an entire cell are fairly distant at this point, but there is quite a bit of work into modeling transcriptional activity from sequence. If you'…

I'm confused. Where does this say the vaccine is mRNA? The Valneva VLA15 website explicitly states "VLA15 is a multivalent recombinant protein vaccine" [1], and the linked press re…

Not sure why a direct quote from the article is getting so heavily downvoted. Maybe there’s something here, but if the variants were in the published paper, it doesn’t really matte…

Taum Sauk is unusual in that the dam fully surrounds the upper reservoir (i.e. the lake was made from scratch), although certainly all types of dam can fail.

I'd be quite interested to see if there's any correlation between Valisure's measurements and time elapsed since manufacture for each lot.

Isn't pumped storage hydro kind of that "silver bullet"? At least in places with the right geography?

Indeed. Maybe someone with more expertise can chime in — it's not clear to me if getting a vaccine with the chimp adenovirus backbone would preclude the possibility of getting anot…

Based on this NYT article [1], some logistics companies planning to store and transport the vaccine are using freezers from Stirling Ultracold. It may just be a curiosity, but thei…

It’s always surprising to me to see an article like this that’s vaguely about a person, without seemingly any attempts to reach that person for comment. I’ve filed issued on a few …

While "Heroes of CRISPR" is a fairly detailed history of the whole affair, it's always worth noting that it was written by Eric Lander, the director of an institute with a strong v…

Indeed. In Chadwick Boseman’s case, the onset was at _such_ a young age that it suggests (total speculation) he might have had a hereditary cancer syndrome or some other familial r…

Just to clarify — the vaccine uses as its backbone a type of adenovirus that typically infects chimpanzees, modified by the addition of pieces from SARS-CoV-2, but the experiments …

The above is a good example of how results can be "wrong" in theory papers, but I work in an experimental field of research and at least in my world, having a paper present results…

This calls to mind the ever-relevant “Science: The Endless Frontier” [1] by Vannevar Bush, who more or less oversaw the entire American federal research enterprise during and post-…

Oh, absolutely. I guess I was wondering if accusations alone would serve to substantially inconvenience or embitter individual scientists, or decrease public trust in academic rese…

The conspiracy theorist in me can't help but wonder if "leaking" forged documents of this nature could be an effective way for China or another foreign government to sabotage the l…

Some folks have raised plenty of practical/medicolegal reasons, but it's also worth noting that patients are often not comfortable being told that they have an "anomaly" that their…

Some of the comments here don't touch on the practical limitations of this, but here's one — I'm at a 1400+ bed top-10 US academic medical center, and even our outpatient MRI machi…

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