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Reflecting on the state of the world always leaves me thinking of this[0]: 30 March 1973 Dear Mr. Nadeau: As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate…

This advice is spot on! I haven't worked on this problem, but others in my graduate lab did. If you're interested in a tool that automates some of this process (takes VCF as input;…

If you're interested in the subject, I highly recommend Tomorrow's Table [1], a book by Pamela Ronald, a plant pathologist and geneticist, and Raoul Adamchak, her husband and an or…

This comment is not consistent with other data. It appears that Russia has a different distribution of coronavirus strains than the rest of Europe [0], but the strains in Russia ar…

No one with any credibility is suggesting 2 months... As of October, "The confirmed examples worldwide [of re-infections] could possibly be counted on your fingers" [0]. Immune mem…

The success of dexamethasone [1], compared to the increasingly conflicted results of remdesivir [2], argues against this view. [1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa20214…

While they covered copyrighted material, the "Safe Harbor" provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) [1] were essential for any user-created content to be hosted by…

Track spikes for shorter events have included a rigid plate - sometimes made of carbon fiber - for as long as I can remember. The Vaporfly 4% could simply be viewed as a technology…