Bayblab
News, views and other thoughts from a group of degenerate grad students
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Apr 26, 12 02:37PMSome people sneeze when they look at the sun. This trait, known as the photic sneeze reflex, or ACHOO (Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst) syndrome, was thought to be an autosomal dominant...
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Mar 26, 12 09:53AMMale rearousal time can be reduced, in many species, by the opportunity to mate with a novel female as opposed to the same female. This has been termed the Coolidge Effect.This makes perfect sense in an...
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Mar 15, 12 09:35AMWe usually use cloth diapers on our 10 month old, however occasionally we get some disposable diapers. They are amazing. The polymer sodium polyacrylate is responsible for the super absorbent properti es...
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Mar 03, 12 08:01AMI'm not up to date on the latest stats on the best preventative medications, however here is a entertaining video my wife pointed out to me on the best prescription ever. This intervention decreases r isk...
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Feb 24, 12 01:52PMA recently patented heroin vaccine has shown efficacy in reducing heroin consumption in mice. Vaccines to treat addiction are not a new idea and there are many in development. The concept is quite sim ple...
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Feb 15, 12 09:06AMPerhaps the real reason for not publishing lab-bred H5N1 strain data is hiding in his mother's spare bedroom. Check out Cathel Garvey's blog chronicling his work on making molecular biology more acces sible...
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Jan 31, 12 10:52AMCanada is the largest producer of potash in the world. Recent investment in the development of potash resources in Saskatchewan is raising the usual issues of economic prosperity vs environmental sust ainability...
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Jan 31, 12 10:05AMI was very impressed with the Lego-astronaut of Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad. These two seventeen year olds from Scarborough sent a Lego man 24km above the surface of the earth. Using a weather balloon some...
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Jan 24, 12 09:26AMThe recent call for a 60 day moratorium on engineered avian flu virus research reminded me about the Asilomar Conference.The Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA was held in 1975 and its purpose was to...
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Jan 17, 12 11:25AMAccording to a thesis published in 2006, ski wax is snake oil. Leonid Kuzmin is the author of a couple of papers, both included in his thesis from Mid Sweden University (pdf), that demonstrate that ma ny...
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