I’ve recently decided to deepen my knowledge on the field of personalized genetics/genomics as it has an exceptional future in the realm of medicine (and business). And who is the right person to answer my geek questions? Of course, Steven Murphy, MD, the blogger of the Gene Sherpa. He is the Clinical Genetics Fellow>
When asked about an effort to ban fluoride in drinking water, Utah Governor Spencer Cox said, "It’s not a bill I care that much about” but he still signed it, despite the health benefits being well-established and claims of harm being the kind of slimy epidemiology that claims "risk" of BPA, weedkillers, PFAS>
Ketamine has been used by emergency departments for analgesia, sedation and amnesia for rapid, life-saving intubation in critically ill patients but decades-old studies suggested it raised intracranial pressure.
A systematic review of 10 recent studies comparing ketamine to sufentanil, fentanyl and other>
Prosopagnosia or prosopagnosia, is a perceptual deficit acquired or congenital central nervous system that prevents individuals who are affected to properly recognize people's faces, it is determined by a damaged area of the brain to the task, turn fusiform.It was studied thoroughly in the eighteenth century by several>
A new article reports that listening to religious music is associated with a decrease in anxiety about death and increases in life satisfaction, self-esteem, and sense of control over their lives among older Christians.
The associations are similar for blacks and whites, women and men, and individuals of both>
Dear Hugh Hefner:Ever wondered why you’re rich? Yes, yes, you’re a savvy businessman who succeeded where thousands have failed. But there are deeper reasons underlying why your business model works at all. When one digs deeply enough one finds that color – yup, the stuff of rainbows and Crayola – is>
You know my feelings on this. We need to embrace open post publication peer review. This way people can see the reviews and the reviews themselves should count as publications which can themselves...
"... a place where to store impressions, emotions, half-baked ideas ...: I say Professor Milgrom of the Weizmann Institute is the world's greatest living scientist — on the basis of...
"Scaling factors" for quark masses etc in that paper are due to the running of the coupling, i.e. top quark is formed at a higher energy so you have to us a different value of the...
I've also just started using AI to help do calculations, predicting particle masses from the energy absorbed by virtual particles undergoing vacuum polarization shielding. The most surprising...