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The problem from the perspective of many Jews (including myself) is that these kinds of protests and protestors tend to focus on Israel to the exclusion of any other state. Where i…

Another good example of bad science related to water is "water memory" (published in Nature!): the idea that water could hold onto the "shape" of molecules with which it was mixed.…

Emails from a stamped individual could be "whitelisted" so as to no longer require a stamp to show up in your inbox. For instance, the first time you get an email from Amazon Prime…

I remain cautiously pessimistic because there are two main possibilities: (1) there is one product (or a series of products manufactured/purified in the same way) that causes respi…

True, true.

Is uber just an elaborate vehicle designed to redistribute wealth from investors to cab drivers and computers engineers?

Suggestions: an option to only show open/active applications.

This situation happens in EDs as well. For example: ED attending thinks admission is warranted but patient does not meet criteria (“please come see the patient because he/she looks…

Where does it say that? This NP was practicing independently and the Fairview hospital has an ED. There is no reason that if the NP was concerned she should not have sent the patie…

I haven't done a deep dive here... but this makes no sense for multiple reasons. 1. It will have a chilling effect on physicians giving informal ("curbside") consults to colleagues…

Right--see the paper I linked to above for an example of that. Here's a summary article: https://www.cell.com/molecular-therapy-family/molecular-ther... If you can't access it then…

Not with this approach. It's easier to add a gene to one cell lineage (in this case, the blood cell forming hematopoietic lineage) than to remove a gene from every single cell in t…

The actual study is here. It's a remarkable achievement: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1815408 No CRISPR/Cas9 was used in this study. We'll have to wait and see if an…

In practice you need to maintain large colonies in order to reliably have enough mice for experiments. Also you need to keep gender in mind because females can be housed together b…

Many things that are done in biology (and medicine to some extent) are way simpler than they seem because much of it was figured out a long time ago using tools that scientists/doc…

The expenses associated with animal husbandry at most research institutes raise the price to ~$1/day per cage of 5 mice.

>Mice are so easy to keep, they could be entitely mechanicly reared, and an experiment involving 1000 mice should be a simple matter of a few clicks on a computer. I invite you to …

This is a forum populated with thousands of smart and talented engineers all discussing the absurdity of US voting systems and suggesting great fixes. There is clearly a problem to…