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The road teams are 5-0 in round 2.

20,000 leagues under the sea?

This type of debate that is essentially which category a continuous variable should be placed in is... well actually fairly common in biomedical science. The manuscript would be improved if all the experiments were to be replicated using a different cell line and a different time course. Also...

Obviously - also explains why RBCs can't dance.

Cells were taken from a fetus decades ago and have undergone hundreds of replications ex vivo. No meiotic recombination has occurred however ex vivo cells, as one might suspect, are under selection based on the growth conditions/media... simplifying one might understand that any genetic or...

Viral DNA is in every bite of food one eats... the argument is reduced to absurdity.

The argument that this is fetal DNA is IMO a reductionist materialist position that is explicitly not pro-life. It contends that cells on a plate or in a freezer are the same as a fetus and thus logically removes a special condition of humanity from a fetus. Why care about a fetus if it is just...

Are the cells in your body today fetal cells? Or have the thousands of cell replications over decades made those cells no longer fetal?

The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in.

Brand-new colour created by tricking human eyes with laser The ‘off-the-charts saturated’ greenish hue — called olo — has been seen by only five study participants. Five people have been able to perceive a colour never before seen by human eyes, after researchers used lasers and tracking...

I used to really enjoy KoKyu Na'Mean chicken sandwiches in the RTP area but have not been in some time.

Published last week separately 2 teams - one from Japan and one from Sloan Kettering used iPS and hES each that produce dopamine to treat Parkinson's via implanting the cells into subject brains - thus far no major adverse outcomes and some efficacy in Phase I/II trials. ... Here, we report...

Recognizing this is not at all what this thread is about.... So anyway I looked: Cellosaurus cell line GS-iPSC1 (CVCL_A2WQ) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867418302903?via%3Dihub Who knew

Does one grow squirrel culture lines with or without serum :). "Bullwinkle, do you know what an A-Bomb is?"

Yes to all of that - in addition it seems that candidate associated genes are not conserved in standard animal models (mice) making the barrier to animal modelling of mechanism much higher.