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As I understand it, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC’s) can be made using the following (grossly oversimplified) steps: Take some skin cells (fibroblasts) from the host Introduce the …
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In his research on the issue of belief formation Daniel Gilbert (1991. How Mental Systems Believe) claimed that cognition “is an evolutionary outgrowth of [perception].” What he meant is …
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How do two identical pre-mRNA molecules give rise to two different mRNA molecules after alternative splicing? They contain the same introns and exons and thus same splicing enhancers and silencers Is …
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Male mice are known to have different X/Y sperm ratios in their testis. Possibly, this phenomemon is not limited to the mice. However, can the males utilise that to their advantage? For example, …
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I am using this recipe to mix my own ADC (Albumine+Dextrose+Catalase), without the catalase for a microbiology application. It says use a filtering apparatus to sterilize the ADC because it can not be …
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If we cloned an extinct animal like the mammoth, what would become of its gut biome? Do microorganisms evolve and go extinct at such a rate that the mammoth’s biome is a thing of the past? Would the …
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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I can see the chain of spreading disease: Humans usually get rabies from domestic animals, those usually get it from wild animals, wild animals in their turn get from the other wild animals and here I’…
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Many cells in the human body can divide and reproduce, making healing possible. Neurons, however, cannot reproduce, which makes diseases affecting the brain particularly crippling. Why can’t neurons …
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Why is the Krebs cycle considered a part of aerobic metabolism if molecular oxygen is not involved in any of the reactions in the cycle? I originally thought that Krebs cycle was aerobic metabolism …
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At the base of fingernail, there is a white semicircle (see on the first picture). But sometimes there isn’t one. My questions are: what is this white semicircle on the fingernail, and what causes it?…
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In practice, when you have vasoconstriction of the glomerular capillaries and subsequently an increase in blood pressure, glomerular filtration rate increases. However, this seems counterintuitive to …
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I’ve learned that plants transform glucose into sucrose before sending it into phloem. But the process seems to be complex and energy comsuming. Why should plants do it? Is it really necessary?
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I overheard a rather heated argument about whether or not animal cells have vacuoles. One person said that they do, but they’re much smaller than vacuoles in plant cells. The other person said they …
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I’ve found these growing on regular lawn, near some pine trees. In Europe, Hungary, Szada, near the end of October. Could you please help identify it?
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I had a few questions raised by the below diagram in relation to how ChIP-seq reads look like (source). I would be very grateful for your insight on them! From the below diagram, it seems that, in a …
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Candidate enhancer regions are often defined in studies by DHSs and/or certain chromatin marks. I was wondering if DHSs are exhaustive for identifying possible enhancer regions, and if there is any …
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