rgejman

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by rgejman 4y ago
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 is the protest of Google's relationships with dozens of
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by rgejman 6y ago
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. Fun times. https://en.wikipe
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by rgejman 6y ago
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 (which they pay $0.001 cent to send), a box shows
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Night Science(genomebiology.biomedcentral.com)
3 points by rgejman 7y ago|1 comments
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Night Science vs. Day Science: What Is the Question?(genomebiology.biomedcentral.com)
2 points by rgejman 7y ago|1 comments
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Sex and cycling: How bike craze aroused passions in 1890s San Francisco(sfchronicle.com)
1 points by rgejman 7y ago|0 comments
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by rgejman 7y ago
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 respiratory failure in many or all users, (2) all vaping pro
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by rgejman 7y ago
True, true.
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by rgejman 7y ago
Is uber just an elaborate vehicle designed to redistribute wealth from investors to cab drivers and computers engineers?
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by rgejman 7y ago
Suggestions: an option to only show open/active applications.
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by rgejman 7y ago
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 worse than labs suggest”). This is why the ED exists a
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by rgejman 7y ago
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 patient to the ED.
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by rgejman 7y ago
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. That leads to worse patient care overall. F
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How will we pay for the coming curative gene therapies?(statnews.com)
2 points by rgejman 7y ago|0 comments
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by rgejman 7y ago
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 shoot me an email at ron ge
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by rgejman 7y ago
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 the body. But there are other strategies in development
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by rgejman 7y ago
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 any of the pati
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by rgejman 7y ago
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 but males cannot and generally experiments are conducted in e
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by rgejman 7y ago
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/doctors had at hand. We grow cells in what is essentially
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by rgejman 7y ago
The expenses associated with animal husbandry at most research institutes raise the price to ~$1/day per cage of 5 mice.
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by rgejman 7y ago
>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 go visit a laboratory that works with rodent models for a
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Hospitals release lists of retail prices for services(modernhealthcare.com)
150 points by rgejman 8y ago|115 comments
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by rgejman 8y ago
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 be solved here—and it might even be lucrative to solve it.
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by rgejman 8y ago
This data is also consistent with the idea that people leave expensive areas in order to have children in cheaper areas.
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by rgejman 8y ago
I meant the access to commercial DNA databases. Looks like it’s been explained above.
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by rgejman 8y ago
Does anyone have any more information on this? How do the police get access to DNA from genealogical databases? Do they need a warrant for a specific persons DNA? Do the police check for matches or does the company?
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by rgejman 8y ago
You can honor expertise while acknowledging bias and still come up with empirically correct conclusions (otherwise I wouldn't be a scientist) that are based on relatively basic shared values. Expertise is an antidote to propaganda wh
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by rgejman 8y ago
Orson Scott Card wrote a decent but weird scifi book on this premise called "Pastwatch: The redemption of Christopher Columbus." It contains a really graphic description of how a time traveling character convinces the Mayans to tr
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by rgejman 9y ago
The difference between (a) an existing, off-patent molecule and a (b) patentable variant of that molecule is somewhat trivial compared to all of the other costs of bringing a drug to market. But to address your specific question, generics a
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by rgejman 9y ago
This is just not true. Drug companies will make slight modifications to existing drugs and can get new patents on the new formulations and for new indications. If it works, a drug company can make money off of it even if it's been off-

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