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Action potential attenuation in unmyelinated axons vs demyelinated axons

I learnt that action potentials travel much faster along myelinated axons, and when these axons are demyelinated the action potentials travel much slower and sometimes die out. Why do action...

Asked on 01/09/2021 by Vakula

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How come only a handful of animals can do photosynthesis?

As far as I understand, all the energy that living beings rely on comes from the sun. It's processed by plants in photosynthesis. These plants are consumed by herbivores, which...

Asked on 01/09/2021

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Meaning of 5’–3’ in relation to ORFs

I was reading a paper in the journal Molecular Basis of Disease, which stated:The ORFs are arranged as replicase, and protease and major S, E, M,and...

Asked on 01/09/2021

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ECG detection using minimal number of electrodes

Disclaimer: Hello, I'm someone from an electrical engineering background, so this question may sound dumb. I wish to make a wearable ECG monitoring device for arrhythmia detection. Since the...

Asked on 01/09/2021 by Sidharth Thomas

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How is it thought that phosphine is synthesized by living organisms on Earth?

The recent (Sept. 2020) report of “Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus” states that phosphine (PH3) is only known to occur on Earth due to anaerobic...

Asked on 01/08/2021 by dashnick

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Are there any real life instances of kidney organoid transplants in human?

Googling the terms "kidney organoid", "artificial kidney" etc. shows quite a huge amount of research papers regarding studies about kidney organoid synthesis from pluripotent stem cells and transplantation attempts. But...

Asked on 01/08/2021 by Always Confused

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Complete Hominin Fossil Database

I was wondering if there was a database or list of all hominin fossil specimens. I am doing my own personal research, and don’t need images but just names. I...

Asked on 01/07/2021

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How to build SEG in your personal environment?

I'm trying to implement SEG (Wootton & Federhen,1993) in my MATLAB and Python environment. From this oriinal article I cannot figure out what I need to build...

Asked on 01/07/2021

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QA/monitoring in recombinant vaccine manufacturing

On a16z[0] podcast on vaccines[1], an interesting tidbit came up: vaccine manufacturing in cell cultures is expected to hit a major challenge in terms of quality control due to unpredictable...

Asked on 01/06/2021 by Grzegorz Kossakowski

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Term for a prey animal's recognition that something potentially threatening is looking at it?

On my daily walks I frequently see individual or small groups of cattle egrets. At first I would try to photograph them but they would fly away....

Asked on 01/06/2021

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