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Athletes who can make themselves feel cold/heat on command

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Can we post molecular biology questions here?

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Is Ethidium Bromide in Gel Harmful? Concerns About Accidental Exposure

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Racial-variety Links Reference Shelf

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Can any life survive without water?

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What Causes Red Bug Chigger Bites to Itch?

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Effects of Hashish on Brain: Long-Term Consequences

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Are attractive qualities genetic or shaped by society?

  • Dooga Blackrazor
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What tissues and cells do the lungs contain and how are they adapted?

  • ruby_duby
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History of steroids and testosterone in animals

  • Tachyon son
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How do you balance your diet for a healthier lifestyle?

  • SeManTics
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Can Eating Ox-Tails Lead to Mad Cow Disease Risk?

  • amp
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Female pattern fat distribution

  • nautica
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Doctors grow jaw bone in man's back

  • Ivan Seeking
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What Are the Components of an Egg Shell?

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Good books about herbs for beginners

  • Vance
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Progression of Early Hominids: Homo Habilis to Man on the Moon

  • Imparcticle
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What is the Role of Nucleosides in Drug Development?

  • schordinger
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Can water be synthesised from carbohydrates by humans?

  • wasteofo2
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Medical Genetic engineering and third world medicine

  • mee
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Interesting query/observation on Amino Anomalies

  • SeManTics
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What is the relationship between chromosomes, genes, and DNA?

  • Royce
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Increase in Human Height: How Does It Affect Organs?

  • Dooga Blackrazor
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Howcome HIV doesn't spread by kissing?

  • Linda
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What causes shaky hands and how to steady them?

  • ShawnD
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What is a T-helix?

  • Jeebus
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Can intellectual activity protect against Alzheimer's disease?

  • flippy
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Understanding the Evolutionary Purpose of Male Nipples

  • phenylalanine
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Do animals commit suicide when in pain or captivity?

  • da_willem
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What does the 'p' mean in CpG dinucleotide?

  • Jikx
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Why are tears associated with sadness?

  • Loren Booda
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Is there a correlation between birth month and disease risk?

  • Saint
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Evolution of obligate parasites

  • aychamo
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Why do certain foods make me feel drowsy?

  • daveed
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Could You Diaper Your Aging Parents?

  • Loren Booda
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Race is an important determinant of folate status

  • hitssquad
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News Using large fishing nets to clean ocean trash instead of catching fish

  • Loren Booda
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Who would win in a fight between a lion and a tiger?

  • Jin314159
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High School Investigation Projects: Bio and Chem

  • fawaz
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Evaluating a biotechnology engineering curriculum for college

  • MarcoSWE
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Osmosis in salted eggs and pigment separation by chromatography

  • hikki_pop
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Males predispositioned to find certain females

  • aychamo
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Parrot intelligence on BBC News

  • marcus
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How to separate one A pill from two identical B pills by weight

  • Evo
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Can People Recall Mental Images?

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How do organisms regrow severed body parts from DNA information?

  • wolram
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Can You Control Voluntary Muscle Movements?

  • Jamez
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Could an Insect in the Toilet Be the Answer to My Brother's IBS?

  • LuckyFish
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Could bacteria or viruses damage computer circuits if they got inside?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Brain Oxygen Deprivation: How Long Can It Last?

  • alpha_wolf
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Kitten suckling from a male cat

  • wasteofo2
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My sister dislikes chocolate icecream

  • Imparcticle
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Is Low Cholesterol Still Healthy?

  • fisipavia
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Are better-adapted genes less easily mutated?

  • Loren Booda
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Greater likelyhoods of having 2 children of the same gender than 50%?

  • wasteofo2
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Genetic engineering to create reproductively isolated human populations

  • marcus
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Extraterrestrial Lifeforms Found?

  • mee
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Why do feral bee colonies align combs east-west?

  • Ian Rumsey
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I feel high after playing my guitar, any explanations?

  • wasteofo2
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How fast can the human eye capture and notice light?

  • wolram
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FAS as a metabolic oncogene in prostate cancer

  • Neo
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Why are insects attracted to feces?

  • wasteofo2
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How to ensure a baby rabbits survival.

  • wasteofo2
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Secondhand Marijuana Smoke: Drug Test Implications

  • decibel
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Studies on racial differences

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Smallest Cell: What is the Human Body's Tiny Building Block?

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Where Does Brain Activity Go After Death?

  • absinthe
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How Does Serotonin Cause Vasoconstriction During Hemostasis?

  • Cheman
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How do prions convert normal proteins in mad cow disease?

  • mee
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Any microbiologists that can help?

  • Mistress Lilith
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Transcription and translation of a DNA strand into protein

  • dagg3r
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How do electric eels generate and control their electrical discharge?

  • wasteofo2
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What happened to the weird, purple jellyfish in my backyard?

  • zoobyshoe
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Which hormone controls happiness and sadness?

  • abc
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Questions on the common cold virus

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What Are the Most Common Myths About Evolution?

  • Shad
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Transmission of infectious diseases demo

  • BobG
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Are these animal sightings an outbreak of mange?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Were There Any Other Human Life Forms Before Dinosaurs?

  • rajeevholmes
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How can a cell protect itself from being cytolized?

  • hikki_pop
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Baby skunks living in my barn storage area

  • Ivan Seeking
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Can your body tell how many calories the food you're eating has?

  • wasteofo2
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Fresh water eels adaptation to Salt water

  • nautica
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AGCTU, and all-important proteins

  • Vance
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Experiments for High School Students

  • nautica
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Plants tactic towards light, how?

  • aychamo
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Francis Crick, DNA helix co-discoverer, dies at 88

  • Monique
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How Do We Understand the Biology of Different Types of Love?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Algaecides control algae growth?

  • Evil
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What Does Kamikaze Mean and Where Did It Come From?

  • Vance
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The Human Body's Internal Clock: How Does It Keep Time?

  • Mattius_
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Is Multiple Personality Disorder a Natural Evolutionary Phenomenon?

  • Mentat
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Rape – All about power and control Or an evolutionary option?

  • Tigers2B1
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Why did the headless chicken cross the road?

  • Tiiba
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A discussion on a different approach to mental illness

  • Scott Sieger
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