aardvark92

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by aardvark92 21d ago
My anecdotal experience going on and off Paxil is that it does work for me, and no matter how badly I want to live Rx-free, I consistently devolve into a moody mess without them.
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by aardvark92 3mo ago
I guess it depends on who the coauthors and PI are - some academic mentors can be overly trusting and ‘hands-off.’ A lone medical student’s self published paper shouldn’t be worth much though…
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by aardvark92 3mo ago
If it had killed 11,000 people we’d be hearing much more about it. It made news that Ebola hit a record high of 1,000 cases this week.
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by aardvark92 3mo ago
The police are human too and often bored on shift. The world needs more whimsy! I understand your perspective, but viewing police as solely as a potential threat is not spreading whimsy.
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by aardvark92 9mo ago
Saw the same thing first hand with Pathology data. Image analysis is far more straightforward problem than fMRI, but sorry, I do not trust your AI model that matches our pathologist’s scoring with 98.5% accuracy. Our pathologists are litera
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by aardvark92 2y ago
Yes! This plays into my favorite pet theory - that herpesviruses (and/or other microbes) are the cause of Alzheimers: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5457904/pdf/nihms85...
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by aardvark92 2y ago
This paper gets ripped into in my favorite podcast, TWiV (This Week in Virology)! Essentially, yes, neomycin in the nose, if timed perfectly, can activate the innate immune system, but en mass this practice would cause the spread of antibio
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by aardvark92 4y ago
also am curious as to the dark side!
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by aardvark92 4y ago
If you waited 8 years to marry her, I'm not surprised she moved on...
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by aardvark92 5y ago
Yes! Looking for gene target failure rates is a valid, albeit indirect way of quantifying variants. You will only be able to detect variants this way if the variant contains a mutation within the primer binding region and if that mutation h
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by aardvark92 5y ago
Not sure what the water treatment plant steps are downstream, but I can tell you I've been processing SARS-CoV-2 positive wastewater samples for ages and managed not to catch COVID. Most of the gene fragments tested for in these studie
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by aardvark92 5y ago
We're working on it! Demultiplexing the signal is tricky though. Currently, labs have two main tools available - RT-qPCR and tiled amplicon sequencing. RT-qPCR provides cycle threshold (Ct) values which quantify the amount of virus RNA
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by aardvark92 5y ago
We found Omicron genomes in my county's wastewater. Give it like, two days and it'll hit the news. SOURCE: I work in a leading U.S. wastewater testing lab.
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by aardvark92 5y ago
Folks have been testing wastewater for legal and illegal drugs for years ( https://score-cost.eu has an interesting report if you're interested). There's been talk amongst Police Departments in whether investing in wide