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Can hypnosis cure nail biting habits?

  • wasteofo2
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Commonly performed surgeries in America

  • PrudensOptimus
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Is a vegan diet healthy if you get enough plant protein?

  • wasteofo2
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How do we use fat for energy without the glyoxylate cycle?

  • Monique
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Zoobie's Lead Butt: A Blessing in Disguise?

  • Tsu
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Neural correlates of visual consciousness

  • Jeebus
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Electromagnetic Signature of Molecules - Biological Communication

  • Another God
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Is Invisibility Through Genetic Modification Possible?

  • Linkin8
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Explain what encephalization is

  • TigerLilly
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Biological effects of incest on offspring and over generations

  • one_raven
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What is the Equivalent Megapixel Rating of the Human Eye?

  • memorygap
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Destruction of the human environment.

  • wasteofo2
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What Mesothelioma is and why law firms are going crazy over it?

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Regenerative chemical turns muscle cells into stem cells

  • fish
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Genetic variety yet speciation in zygotes

  • Loren Booda
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Why Do We Distinguish Between Living and Non-Living?

  • Mentat
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Natural selection or Societal selection?

  • caumaan
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DNA - How Different Genes Coexist in Our Bodies

  • Dal
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Ten reasons why HIV could not cause AIDS , from my inbox

  • eagleone
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Hiv mutations can result with hiv airborn?

  • deda
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Patterns of Information Mutating Over Time

  • caumaan
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10-11% of america is estimated to be gay

  • wasteofo2
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China Legalizes the World's First Gene Therapy Medication

  • Carlos Hernandez
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Human cloning information resources

  • Randolfe
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Ethical perspectives on genetic manipulation

  • caumaan
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Is Personal Experience a Valid Foundation for Understanding Mental Illness?

  • scott_sieger
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How did lactose tolerance evolve in human populations?

  • fish
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EMS Worker: Hear from Experienced Professionals

  • Semper000
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Is there genetic basis for race?

  • Adam
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Can Self-Injurious Behavior Extend Beyond Physical Harm?

  • KLscilevothma
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Why do we smile if baring teeth signals aggression in animals?

  • Mentat
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How to get haploid yeast growth

  • Monique
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Can society cope with a world population of 18 billion?

  • sage
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UCLA Team Maps How Genes Affect Brain Structure, Intelligence

  • Carlos Hernandez
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What are the criteria for an organism to be classified as an Arthropod?

  • wasteofo2
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Highly resistant bacteria in France

  • Monique
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Does Racism Impact Cognitive Performance?

  • selfAdjoint
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Cardiac Cycle, Tissue Fluid and Oxygen Dissociation Curve

  • garytse86
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Is there an optimum hardness for bone?

  • Tyro
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Several Ways to Increase Your IQ

  • Carlos Hernandez
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Toy DNA Sequencer: What's the Future of Tech?

  • selfAdjoint
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Could Nerve Impulse Amplifiers Make Someone Superhuman?

  • Tyro
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Brains that manufacture brightness and darkness

  • djacob8
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A small, 3-chambered vessel for holding medicines

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Is the Delta Symbol Relevant in Genotype Terminology?

  • rockind78
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News Insurance for delivering babies costs so much, the doctor can’t practice

  • Monique
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Gene Transcription/DNA Replication

  • Lindsay
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Alternative Splicing Goes Mainstream

  • iansmith
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Blood Types: Why Are So Many People Type O?

  • majinknight
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How did you quit smoking?

  • Zantra
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Doctors and patients relationship

  • mikelus
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Difference with mitosis and meiosis

  • photon
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Can brains evolve to function as quantum logic systems?

  • Loren Booda
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How did Lamarkian Evolution work?

  • Mentat
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Chimp Genome Released: NHGRI-led Project Aligns Sequence With Human Genome

  • iansmith
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Does ppGpp Inhibit DNA Replication and Transcription in Prokaryotic Cells?

  • rockind78
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Medical The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003

  • Monique
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New Medication Against Heart Attack

  • iansmith
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Strange Phenomenon: Cracking Peanuts Releases Smoke

  • arcnets
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Tsk tsk, milk contaminated w/ penicilline

  • Monique
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Bottleneck Effect - Randomness or Predisposition?

  • Oblivion
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What is the Gould/Dawkins contraversy?

  • Mentat
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Protein of life, protein of death

  • iansmith
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How does polymyxin B reach the cytoplasmic membrane after binding LPS?

  • rockind78
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Should Humans Embrace Genetic Engineering for Evolutionary Advancement?

  • Tyro
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Are Cavities Connected to Age and Genetics?

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Did You Know There is a Peanut Allergy Vaccination?

  • Monique
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Questions on the herbicide triazine

  • SDNess
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How Does Blocking with Serum Work Before Antibody Hybridization?

  • Monique
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Whole meme thing is friggin ridiculous

  • Adam
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Why do cows have four stomach chambers?

  • Monique
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Second Hand Smoke: Fact or Fiction?

  • Peter Pan
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Please help me with genetic therapy

  • ravingponies
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Spray-on female contraceptive to start trial

  • Monique
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Dendritic cells in cancer treatment

  • wasteofo2
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Is partial human cloning legal and what are the applications?

  • jrwnov
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Prokaryotes and lack of compartmentalization

  • Monique
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  • Poll Poll

Is biology a high-tech science or field observation?

  • Monique
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Is yeast, as in baking yeast or brewers yeast, a bacteria or fungus?

  • Royce
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What Is the Most Amazing Natural Phenomenon on Earth?

  • d00dz
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Not really physics, about the eye

  • sk8rlindz
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Why is this year's influenza strain unusually deadly?

  • Jeebus
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Does the Oct3/4 gene link embryonic stem cells to cancer?

  • iansmith
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Do All Males Across Species Have Nipples?

  • wasteofo2
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Has a new chimp species been discovered recently?

  • Mentat
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Interpreting behavioral evolution

  • Loren Booda
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Biology of Will - Libet's experiment

  • selfAdjoint
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Eliminate HIV by replacing all the blood from one's body

  • jhirlo
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What are the prevailing theories about the origin of life?

  • nautica
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Severe combined immune deficiency

  • Monique
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Immune Cells Squeeze Through Cellular Barriers

  • Monique
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How to tell if your head is about to explode ?

  • Another God
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Liver blood flow and pathogenesis

  • Monique
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Bacterial Conjugation: F+ / F+ crosses

  • Adrian
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Why is 2 sexes so common in nature?

  • Another God
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Is My Cat More Dangerous Than My Dogs?

  • Monique
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