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Why doesn't blood dry inside our bodies?

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Rhythmicity of the heart and potassium ion

  • Asmaa Mohammad
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Why is the replacement fertility rate 2.1 instead of 2.0?

  • swampwiz
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How can genes for cells change?

  • swampwiz
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What happens before you pass out from choking?

  • Amadeus94
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Cornflakes for better breakfasts

  • mech-eng
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Does anyone here know what happened to Emmanuel David Tannenbaum

  • Oldgold
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Is Autism due to Predictive Coding Problems?

  • BillTre
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Total peripheral resistance and the diastolic pressure

  • Asmaa Mohammad
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Could my back pain be caused by a disc hernia?

  • girts
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Common word for reflexes, instincts, FAPs, etc.

  • icakeov
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Nanowire Arrays Restore Vision in Blind Mice

  • Drakkith
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Dopamine pathways in the 'Prisoner's dilemma'

  • mark!
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Pathogenic molecular handedness

  • mark!
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37 Genes Related to Synesthesia Identified

  • BillTre
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How Did Poop Stains Lead to the Discovery of a Hidden Penguin Supercolony?

  • jim mcnamara
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Immune Cells Involved with High Blood Pressure

  • BillTre
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Study Findings: Diabetes Can be Put into Remission w/ Diet

  • kyphysics
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Our memory comes from an ancient virus

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Medical Is the Renal Threshold for Glucose Exceeded in Diabetic Patients?

  • mktsgm
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Removing Rats from a small Atoll also got rid of Mosquitos

  • BillTre
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Regarding the biology of flying

  • Alan McIntire
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What are the disadvantages of marriages between relatives?

  • mech-eng
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Submitting your DNA to 23andMe or Ancestry.com

  • StatGuy2000
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Displacement aggression and stress

  • mark!
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Medical Diagnostic procedure turned into potential treatment

  • josip213
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Force exerted by the abdomen on our vest

  • Jones15
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Bioenergy Plantations to Drive Down CO2 Levels

  • BillTre
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Cholera Vaccines Being Tried Out

  • BillTre
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Can Multiple 100 IQ Individuals Solve a 150 IQ Problem?

  • ZMacZ
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Can St Bernards Handle Long Airplane Flights?

  • opus
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Clonal Fish is Genetically Healthy and Long Lived

  • BillTre
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Günter Blobel: Nobel Prize Winner & Cell Biology Pioneer

  • BillTre
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35 measles deaths in Europe last year

  • BWV
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Why Does Osmosis Stop in Animal Cells?

  • liroj
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Medical Ultra-processed Food = Greater Cancer Risk

  • Tom.G
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Medical Olympic Russian Curler Busted for Performance-Enhancing Drug

  • berkeman
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Why isn't the Czechoslovakian wolf dog classified as a hybrid?

  • Pleonasm
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What Are the Most Amazing Bee Hives Around the World?

  • jedishrfu
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Psychotic episodes in my Alaskan malamute

  • Pleonasm
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Can Medical Tests Determine My Body Energy and Motivation Levels?

  • timeuser84
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New Cancer Research at Stanford

  • Buzz Bloom
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Mummified 16th century child remains reveals HBV

  • Evo
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What are Cattle Eyeworms and Can They Infect Humans?

  • BillTre
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Can viruses be stored in a box without decaying?

  • SIQI
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How cells learn to become different in the newborn?

  • GTOM
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Are Invasive Crayfish in Europe the Result of Parthenogenesis?

  • BillTre
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How ants can survive in a microwave

  • rxyzm
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What is the significance of a tailed spider found in amber?

  • Evo
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Why does my beard look darker when longer?

  • TSN79
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New Life History Simulation Modeling Platform

  • JonMoulton
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Natural selection, evolution "why are we still sick"

  • girts
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Medical What causes the risks of taking steroids?

  • HRubss
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Is a Universal Cancer Cure Possible?

  • Orodruin
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What are the benefits of using plant growth retardants for cabbage growth?

  • Giridhar S
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How can a partial dopamine agonist block dopamine pathway

  • nomadreid
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Can our immune system be or become partially defective?

  • Spinnor
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Medical What is the Anatomy of a Dorsal Root Nerve Fascicle?

  • somasimple
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Human evolution - From sperm to ape

  • Galactic explosion
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Why We Pay So Much for Medical Drugs

  • jedishrfu
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Medical What do they "eat" besides our flesh, flesh eating bacteria

  • Spinnor
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Term for differentiation within the cell

  • icakeov
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DNA testing, what kind of sample is the minimum?

  • GTOM
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Medical The role of bacteria in cancer development

  • mark!
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Medical Expanding the Time Window to 16 Hours: New Hope for Stroke Victims

  • berkeman
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Large Set of Brain Scans Reveal Unexpected Abnormailities

  • BillTre
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The average Asian aging process

  • mark!
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What Are the Shared Features of Vertebrate Central Nervous Systems?

  • BillTre
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The incredible intelligence of crows

  • ElliotSmith
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10 Minute Zebrafish Documentary

  • BillTre
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Is Home Testing for Cancers with a Blood Assay a Good Idea?

  • BillTre
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DNA Based, Charge Controlled, Nano-Scale Arm

  • BillTre
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Is It Legal to Preserve a Human Fetus?

  • kerrie king
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Where does the gene for green color come from?

  • Vatsal Goyal
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Testosterone in males and females

  • mark!
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Add/remove testosterone in animals

  • mark!
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Why does antagonising D2 receptors reduce positive schizophrenic symptoms?

  • foldedelephants
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Gene-edited immune cells could help wipe out deadly tumors

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Medical Physiology of Massage: Benefits, Why & How We Enjoy It

  • mktsgm
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Why Do Blood Pressure Levels Vary Throughout the Cardiovascular System?

  • jaechung
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Mid-season additions to flu vaccinations?

  • berkeman
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Very Nice Alligator Embryo Picture

  • BillTre
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Finding pathogens from long past epidemics -Aztecs

  • jim mcnamara
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Did Neanderthals have the intellectual capacity to read?

  • bluemoonKY
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Replacing a neuron by an artificial connection

  • Mohamed Amine LABIDI
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Medical Sliding interphase zones in a peripheral nerve

  • somasimple
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What are cognitive distortions?

  • Posty McPostface
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Examination project of EEG, Opinions and feedback

  • Farhad-.-
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Worm Species without Males Loses 25% of Genes

  • BillTre
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Brumation - alligators beating the cold in North Carolina

  • jim mcnamara
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Do most caucasian homo sapiens have some Neanderthal DNA?

  • bluemoonKY
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Light bulbs best for seedling growing?

  • Questor2
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How to Measure Biomass Yield in a Non-Homogeneous Anammox Bioreactor?

  • Baho Ilok
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Unicellular functioning molecules inside multicellular cells

  • icakeov
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Medical Kids who eat more fish sleep better, smarter(?)

  • jim mcnamara
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Different lengths of genes expressed

  • icakeov
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Two surgeons after a 32-hour surgery to remove brain tumors

  • ElliotSmith
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