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Can Inaudible High-Frequency Sounds Still Damage Hearing?
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How do antibiotics know where to go?
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How Do Cancers Spread and Affect Other Organs?
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How Does the Brain Learn and Store Information Early On?
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Medical What Makes Rocking Motion So Soothing?
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Microscope for individual cells/bacteria?
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Medical Environmental Endocrine disruptors
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Plant Growth Strategies in Light and Dark Environments
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The Extraordinary Story of HeLa Cells: Could She Have Lived Forever?
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How Close Are We to Engineering Non-Biological Systems Controlled by the Brain?
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Do we know why mosquitoes do not transmit the HIV-AIDS virus?
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Quick question on mucous membrane of mouth
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Evidence of extraterrestrial biochemistry ?
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Medical What is the voltage and force of the shock
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Can you achieve telomere maintenance without using gene therapy
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Medical CO2 Levels in Small Bedrooms: How Long is Safe?
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Help ~I need the primers of porcine bcl-xs
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Why do nerves get a blood supply?
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Beginner question regarding evolution
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How did RNA and complex enzymes emerge for DNA/RNA replication?
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How to Interpret Drosophila Genetics Problem with Red and White Eye Traits?
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Medical Is there a connection between different types of cancer in families?
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Medical Brain that causes a person to suffer from dyslexia?
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Medical Brain tumor linked to depression?
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Genes are the reason for this and that
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Explaining the Logic Behind Skin Color
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Unbelievable Medical Conditions
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How does electricity flow through the body?
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Medical Using light to manipulate neurons
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Medical Human brain capability in seizure
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What is Selective about SSRIs ?
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Medical Someone explain why my heartbeat is SO. SLOW.
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Medical What's the strongest magnetic field safe for humans?
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Medical Is Big Pharma Losing Money by Donating 1,000,000 Pills to the Destitute?
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Medical Low-Carb Diet: Fuel for Brain & Muscle
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Medical No problem! Glad to help jog your memory :)
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Is There a Gay Gene and What About Straight or Bisexual Genes?
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Medical Chest Wall Compliance: Effects on Lung Volumes?
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Medical Our genes, medical insurance and tax.
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Greatest degree of blood separation in humankind
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Microwave & Cancer Risk: Is Heating Food/Fluids Dangerous?
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Poisonous plants, palatable plants
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Medical Any chance of an artificial Lymph gland?
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Definition of The Biological Sexes
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Concerns about HPV Vaccine Safety
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Medical Pareidolia and Hallucinations: Understanding the Connection
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Can Scientists Synthesize a Full Cell and Is an Empty Cell Considered Alive?
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Controversy Surrounding GMO Patents: Examining the Ethical Implications
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T7 RNA polymerase for SP6 promoter?
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Thoughts on genetically modified organisms/crops
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Medical Use of statins at very young age
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Evolution and Choice(Free will)
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Quick question about involuntary nerve impulses?
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How to determine DNA fragment size from this gel
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Quick question about the endosteum relating to bone?
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Medical Concerning thoughts in my head.
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Quantum mechanics and DNA and RNA
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Medical Mechanism of Diarrhea: Speed of Food Passage to Rectum
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Medical My Mom's Stage 4 Lung Cancer Battle
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Can We Ethically and Technically Clone Neanderthals?
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Medical Can Thyroid Dysfunction Affect Blood Pressure and Heart Rate?
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Medical Brain Synapse Density: Areas & Connections
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Transcriptional vs. translational fusion
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Medical What Causes Your Body's Natural Alertness After Waking Up?
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Medical Fever Kills Cancer? Clinical Trial, Coley's Toxins & Immunotherapy
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Medical How can taking a break help us solve problems more effortlessly?
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Medical What Does This Abdominal X-Ray Reveal About Extraluminal Gas?
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Medical What is the reason for that tiny dirt?
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Medical Think 5-a-Day Keeps Cancer Away? Think Again
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Biology of X-Men Movies: Iron & Health in Adults
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The Effect of pulsed Microwaves on Bacteria
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Can fat be absorbed through the skin?
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Extraterrestrial Life: How Similar Would It Be to Earth's Wildlife?
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Medical Brain games don't boost your brain power.
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Can indoor-grown trees form tree rings without experiencing a winter season?
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How does eyes encodes information to be sent to brain?
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Medical Why is Chick Pox dangerous for adults?
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Photosynthesis Chlorophyll wavelength absorption
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Why are horns/antlers/tusks/etc limited to such a small set of niches
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Is Social Complexity a Key Survival Trait in Evolution?
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Is the evolution of our technology and medicine leading to de-evolution ?
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Using 3% Hydrogen Peroxide as Mouthwash: Benefits & Risks
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Very very easy question about size of macromolecules
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Brain Projection: Where Does the Mind Visualize?
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Antibiotic resistant super bug quickly spreading in U.S. and Canada.
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Evolution: What Is the Starting Point?
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My child with the recessive genes
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How Many Trees Are Needed to Supply Enough Oxygen for 30 People in a Year?
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Medical How does thinking create action potentials?
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How do blood cells pass through a capillary?
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Immortal One-Celled Organisms: Fact or Fiction?
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Medical Why is protein powder considered controversial?
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Potassium Channel ion rate and Gradient
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How is neurotransmitter released from a receptor?
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Life Span & Size: Research & Average Ratios
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Pros and cons of the Human Genome Project
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Non-Viral Gene Therapy: Effectiveness & Uses
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Medical Water content of the human body
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Medical Which method of tanning is safer (cancer-wise)
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