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Earliest signs of life
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Venoms vs. poisons
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How cities reshape the evolutionary path of urban wildlife
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GM mosquito progeny not dying in Brazil: study
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Genetically modified mosquitoes breed in Brazil
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Evidence for bias of genetic ancestry in resting state functional MRI
Conference paper: Evidence For Bias Of Genetic Ancestry In Resting State Functional MRI [blocked] Preprint (not peer-reviewed): Evidence for Bias of Genetic Ancestry in Resting State Functional...
Conference paper: Evidence For Bias Of Genetic Ancestry In Resting State Functional MRI
[blocked]Preprint (not peer-reviewed): Evidence for Bias of Genetic Ancestry in Resting State Functional MRI
[not blocked]Someone posted this on Reddit. It purports to be a study which shows that it is possible to identify a person's genetic ancestry (in other words, their "race") by observing their brain activity.
Thereby, we demonstrated that genetic ancestry is encoded in the functional connectivity pattern of the brain at rest. We hypothesize that these observed differences are a result of known ethnicity-related variations in head and brain morphology
This feels problematic, in that it gives support to the racist idea that different "races" think differently. But I don't know enough myself to believe this study or debunk it. I present it for more knowledgeable people than myself to dissect and discuss.
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'Ding dong, it's time': Dancing tarantulas emerge in droves to mate in western US
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Winners of the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics announced, awarding a collective $21.6 million
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Deinonychus, the raptor that made us rethink dinosaurs
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The 'Sea Nomad' children who see like dolphins
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Spectacular mitosis in mesenchymal stem cells
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Maybe your Zoloft stopped working because a liver fluke tried to turn your Nth-great-grandmother into a zombie
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How life sciences actually work
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A vaccine for cat allergies is in development; early results are promising, aiming for market release in 2022
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Horticulturists have planted five palm trees in Laugardalur to investigate how these plants respond to Icelandic weather conditions
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In brain’s electrical ripples, markers for memories appear
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How do protozoa get around?
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The story of CTVT—a contagious cancer that spreads from dog to dog—gets weirder all the time
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Anglerfish are increasingly being captured on video, revealing an array of surprising behaviors
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Testing if sharks can smell a drop of blood
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Tiny bombs in your blood - The complement system
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Accuracy of genotyping chips called into question
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Whistling while they work: Cooperative laguna dolphins have a unique accent
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Taking the sting out: Australian gene editing is crossing the pain threshold
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Scientists debate the origin of cell types in the first animals
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Stentors: Single-celled giants
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The snakes that ate Florida: Biologists wade deep into the Everglades to wrestle with the invasion of giant pythons threatening the state’s wetlands
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Researchers eliminated HIV from the genomes of living animals, for the first time
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Dissecting the role of the gut microbiota and diet on visceral fat mass accumulation
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Snowball the dancing cockatoo has wide range of killer moves, new study finds
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Researchers say they’re closer to finding cure for HIV after using CRISPR technology to eliminate disease in live mice for the first time
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Scientists have managed to restore circulation and cellular functions in pig brains hours after death, which raises questions about our understanding of what it means to die
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Scientists successfully transfer first test tube rhino embryo
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Why do people faint?
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From two bulls, nine million dairy cows
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Still snarling after 40,000 years, a giant Pleistocene wolf discovered in Yakutia
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Narlugas are real: A very strange hybrid whale was the offspring of a narwhal mother and a beluga father
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Corsica's 'cat-fox': On the trail of what may be a new species
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Ghost lineages
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Alligator dissection
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The MTHFR gene and why anti-vax doctors are ordering 23andMe tests
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Ravens spread negative emotions to their friends, study finds
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The sealed garden that was only watered once in fifty-three years
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Citrus farmers facing deadly bacteria turn to antibiotics, alarming health officials
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The trickster microbes that are shaking up the tree of life: mysterious groups of archaea are stirring debate about the origin of complex creatures, including humans
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The birth-tissue profiteers - How well-meaning donations end up fueling an unproven, virtually unregulated $2 billion stem cell industry
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New batlike dinosaur was early experiment in flight
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5-HTTLPR: A Pointed Review
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Study shows "the risk of HIV transmission through anal sex when HIV viral load is suppressed is effectively zero".
Risk of HIV transmission through condomless sex in serodifferent gay couples with the HIV-positive partner taking suppressive antiretroviral therapy (PARTNER): final results of a multicentre,...
Our results provide a similar level of evidence on viral suppression and HIV transmission risk for gay men to that previously generated for heterosexual couples and suggest that the risk of HIV transmission in gay couples through condomless sex when HIV viral load is suppressed is effectively zero. Our findings support the message of the U=U (undetectable equals untransmittable) campaign, and the benefits of early testing and treatment for HIV.
9 votes