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Medical What is the role of the spinal cord in placebo analgesia?

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Medical What Are the Key Brain Theories: Gestaltism, Structuralism, and Isomorphism?

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Medical How could I forget that I already built something?

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Swine Flu: Potential Threat to Human Species?

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Medical Rubella vaccination in pregnant women

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Are microbiologist jobs very risky?

  • Jin S Zhang
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Medical Is it Ethical to Use Organs from Heavy Smokers in Transplants?

  • lisab
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Medical Calcium & Nails: Debunking the Myth

  • Smachine
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Does Epithelium Line the Inside or Outside of Body Cavities and Structures?

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Medical Should Evo Child Get a Flu Vaccine Despite Online Misinformation?

  • Evo
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Why is sodium potassium pump required?

  • sameeralord
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Stadium EEG: Measuring Crowd Brain Waves during Football Games

  • Loren Booda
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Power required for muscles to hold object up

  • Pythagorean
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Evolution toward two former species reproducing together?

  • Loren Booda
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Vaccines interfering with other genetic traits?

  • wil3
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Curious about organism without a pulsating heart.

  • HappMatt
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Can eye color change years after birth?

  • Niode
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Medical Getting the breath knocked out of you

  • lisab
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Is the Osmolarity definition in wikipedia wrong?

  • sameeralord
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Medical Serious question about my urine

  • texasblitzem
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Medical Can Drinking Coffee Impact My Ability to Master Math?

  • nanoWatt
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Medical Since when can a skull grow back?

  • waht
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HIV Transmission: Can a Child Get AIDS?

  • jontyjashan
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How can i find out how strong my stomach is? Able to resist vomiting

  • questionboy
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Extra copies of genes/chromosomes

  • bioquest
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Gene therapy and infectious diseases

  • Jin S Zhang
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Can You List the Specific Mutations Responsible for Aging?

  • bioquest
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Clarification on dorsal and ventral area in humans

  • mazinse
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Origin Theories: Evolution, Intelligent Design & More

  • Pattonias
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Do All Plants Use Fermentation for Energy Production?

  • Jules18
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Medical Is Tingling During Intimate Moments a Health Concern?

  • Virtuous
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Medical Can Exposure to Language Through Loudspeakers Create New Brain Circuits?

  • algis.j
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Limits on the size/mass of sea creatures.

  • Researcher X
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How Long Does It Take a Cell to Produce a String of Amino Acids?

  • espen180
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Ardipithecus ramidus discovered

  • Orion1
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Medical Can the Brain Develop a New Sense Through Direct Electrical Stimulation?

  • evanghellidis
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How many chromosomes do humans have ?

  • Geir19
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Who's good at identifying bugs ?

  • Raizy
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What do organisms need to survive?

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Is Falling Asleep in the Bathtub Dangerous?

  • maverick_starstrider
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Algal Blooms: Locations & Latitude Correlation

  • farful
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Genetic diseases or infectious diseases?

  • Jin S Zhang
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What are the key differences between viruses and bacteria?

  • Jin S Zhang
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Do complementary genes move closer on the DNA chain?

  • Lojzek
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Are wisdom teeth important to get out?

  • questionboy
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Is there anyother type of biological agent that can cause disease?

  • Jin S Zhang
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Medical Hazards of Aspergillus niger van Tieghem & Penicillium luteum

  • lisab
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Florida's trident tail sea creature

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Medical What causes subconjunctival hemorrhages and do they require treatment?

  • S_Happens
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Medical What is the I.Q. cutoff forn mental retardation?

  • The_Absolute
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What is secondary active transport?

  • sameeralord
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Why Does My Cat Display These Strange Behaviors?

  • Loren Booda
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Applied Nutritional Research: Melt Away Belly Fat in 7 Days

  • wolram
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AI Is our subconscious influenced by genetics and learned behaviors?

  • N468989
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Who are the key players in vaccine development?

  • Jin S Zhang
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DNA Found to Have Impossible Telepathic Properties

  • Glennage
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Can an Artificial Selectively Permeable Membrane Be Created?

  • mfeneley
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Medical Is an AIDS vaccine on the horizon with this new discovery?

  • fluidistic
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Medical Saving Your Brain: How Learning Keeps Neurons Alive

  • Q_Goest
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Nutrients for cellular respiration

  • asdfgh123
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Mechanism to allow for evolution. How did this mechanism come to be?

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Medical MMS - The Miracle Cure for Incurable Diseases

  • Glennage
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Smoking bad for you? Why do people believe smoking isn't bad for you?

  • 27Thousand
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How are genes selected for combination in sperm and egg cells?

  • bassplayer142
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I'm no biologist, but I think it's a sloth.

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Building an Aquaponics System at Home: Questions & Considerations

  • Raizy
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Confused by bioelectrical phenomenon

  • Smachine
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Medical Can Empowerment Improve Patient Outcomes in Cancer Treatment?

  • Loren Booda
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Jurrasic Park didn't know the half of it

  • Office_Shredder
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Min # of cells in a multicellular organism

  • farful
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News American Health Care: People are acting like 12-year-olds.

  • kldickson
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How long can eggs stored in the fridge?

  • pixel01
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Medical Anxiety clinical studies need support

  • SLeeTP
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Medical Vitamin D Deficiency: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment Options

  • Proton Soup
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Why Does Species Number Decrease with Smaller Body Mass?

  • farful
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Did viruses exist before there were bacteria?

  • SpaceGuy50
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Chaffing Legs? Ways to Relieve Me Poor Old Pins

  • wolram
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Medical Excessive Yawning: Causes, Treatment, and Potential Risks

  • The_Absolute
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Medical Satisfy Hunger Quickly: Eating Protein Before Meals

  • Jobrag
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Probability and ribonucleotides

  • Yann
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Time vs. Size: Animal Lifespans Explored

  • lusk_2004
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What Makes Mercury So Harmful to the Body?

  • wasteofo2
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Is Evolutionary Theory Undermined by Creationist Claims?

  • Daneel_Olivaw
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Medical Does any here have experience with antidepressants?

  • Winzer
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Help (Unidentified eggs in backyard.)

  • Ghost803
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How far can your cat see into the universe?

  • Count Iblis
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Could Some Cells in Multicellular Organisms Be Ineffective?

  • sganesh88
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STEM Cell Work: Connecting People Privately

  • bioquest
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What are some diseases or medical conditions you might not know you have?

  • questionboy
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Different perspectives on evolution

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How to estimate the future global population

  • kthouz
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Medical Reasons why my ankle might be acting up

  • Kronos5253
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Medical Losing Visceral Fat: Is "Spot Training" Possible?

  • junglebeast
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How Soon After Conception Can a Pregnancy Test Detect Hormones?

  • tatzaana
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National Human Genome Research Institute

  • ViewsofMars
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Medical What is Thinking? Theories & Content Explored

  • rasp
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Potential Evolutionary Origins of Artistic Sense

  • TheStatutoryApe
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