Biology and Medical Forum

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Parthenogenesis and Gametophytes

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Methanotrophic bacteria / enzymes

  • Borealis
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Is Starting Smoking Worth the Potential Health Risks?

  • Surrealist
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What is the mysterious Christmas frog in my shower?

  • honestrosewater
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The Biggest Mosquito I Have Ever Seen

  • russ_watters
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'miracle drug' can wake brain-damaged patients

  • Evo
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Breaking Bun of Her Dead Animal Delivery Habits

  • Ivan Seeking
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Can switching eyes prevent microscope-induced eyestrain?

  • matthyaouw
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Medical Language difficulties and poor social skills at 23, possible autism?

  • vvt
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How Do Tiny Insect Legs Function?

  • daniel_i_l
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Coffee Making Me Sick? A Bitter Reality

  • scorpa
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Ligers and Tigons and Bears, Oh My

  • Math Is Hard
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How do genes get regulated during evolution?

  • PIT2
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Why Can't I Swim Underwater Without Closing My Nose?

  • superweirdo
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Aquiring blood samples for research.

  • Agnostic
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Max Habitable G: What is the Limit?

  • stringue
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What would happen if you create an organism with all junk DNA spliced out?

  • ensabah6
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Laundry detergent and grease question

  • quickslant
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What are the differences between a root and a rhizome?

  • Ahmed Abdullah
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Can Depression Be Effectively Treated Without Medication?

  • Winzer
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Medical Making the Consciousness Singularity a Reality

  • thanatos4
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Medical Mapping Intention with Reflex Supression

  • SynapticSelf
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Life Under Greenland Ice Sheet?

  • dimensionless
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Could we program cells to grow into animals with specific traits?

  • moe darklight
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Nerve Signals and Animal electricity

  • lauren_study
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Why do humans have visible sclera but most other animals don't?

  • drcathyc
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Can exercise raise metabolic rate after prolonged calorie restriction?

  • never-enough21
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Medical Nature vs. Nurture: The Role of Environment in Shaping Moral Behavior

  • venger
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Why Don't We See a Black Area When We Close One Eye?

  • JPC
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When does your metabolism slow down?

  • LightbulbSun
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Medical The lasting of the sense of vision

  • Ahmed Abdullah
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Where do spiders go when you suck them into a vacuum cleaner?

  • pivoxa15
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Can You Temporarily Deactivate Your Taste Buds?

  • corra
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Does DNA grow longer or just change through generations?

  • bassplayer142
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Tainted Pet Food Went To Hog Farms

  • edward
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What Animal is in Photo from Shenzhen?

  • jiangxiaoyu
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What does fatty acid synthesis imply?

  • xxndnromeoxx
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Early Grass Maturation: May 6th - Record Early?

  • Ivan Seeking
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What is linkage disequilibrium and how does it differ from linkage?

  • dpsguy
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Baby birds falling from nest in lamp socket

  • Vagrant
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Why do my veins puff out when my muscles bulge?

  • raolduke
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Can I Contract Oral Herpes By Sharing a Bottle?

  • Flying Penguin
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Medical Mozart does not make you smarter

  • Type 7
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Is Multi-Tasking While Eating Affecting Our Digestion?

  • pivoxa15
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Photodynamic Inactivation of Herpes Virus

  • chemisttree
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Medical What does "1/10 time" mean in the context of computer simulations?

  • raolduke
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Medical Can we increase intelligence by adding more grey matter?

  • CuriousArv
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Medical How Does Taxol Specifically Target Cancer Cells?

  • grewas8
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Ebola outbreaks killing thousands of gorillas and chimpanzees

  • Mk
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Could archea proton pump be put in a chloroplast?

  • ensabah6
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What kills people: high voltage or high current?

  • Quadruple Bypass
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Why is There an Age Limit for Blood Donation?

  • Mk
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Identical Twin Fathers: Determining Paternity for 4 Yr Old

  • tangosdead
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Medical Have You Seen the U.Iowa SANTOS Project Demos?

  • neurocomp2003
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What's the body's goal in making us yawn?

  • JPC
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Hard mattresses and the reason we need beds

  • Rothiemurchus
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Medical What is the Sensation of Falling in a Dream?

  • bassplayer142
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Medical Depression linked to depressing events

  • Ivan Seeking
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Medical Testing Self-Awareness: How Do We Know?

  • daniel_i_l
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What plant is the most useful one?

  • metaquantum
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Medical Does inderal improve test performance by reducing anxiety?

  • Gyroscope
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Medical Possibility of recording dreams

  • CRYSTALX
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Medical From Know Thyself to Construct Thyself

  • CuriousArv
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I have a malabsorption problem, what can I do to fix it?

  • xxndnromeoxx
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Medical Can High Doses of Dimenhydrinate Cause Hallucinations?

  • raolduke
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Medical Activating adult stem cells in the brain to generate neurons

  • CuriousArv
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Unlock Pet Separation Anxiety with "Puppy Prozac"

  • Ivan Seeking
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Does gene technology have implications on society?

  • imy786
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Why don't we show inbreeding effects if everyone is related?

  • light_bulb
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Is taxonomy intrinsic or a human invention

  • mr200backstrok
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Earthworms and contaminated leaves

  • austriolia
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Where can I buy enzymes commercially?

  • Borealis
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Do wild animals get sick as often as humans and domestic animals?

  • corra
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Medical Can wanting to be smarter increase mental capacity in offspring?

  • corra
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Sociopathy, bullies, guns, media, ignorance - Not mental illness

  • Loren Booda
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Effect of Mutation on Peptide Sequence: Wild Type vs. Mutant

  • iacephysics
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Medical Does pineal gland DMT explain near-death experiences?

  • Nuklear
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Horrible migraines since I twisted my neck

  • moe darklight
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Can China control pigeons with micro electrodes in their brains?

  • Newbie says Hi
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How large is specimen under microscope?

  • hexa
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Does Colonix product remove stuck stool or just toxins?

  • Nuklear
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Red mark on nose tip after squeezing pimple

  • bcl62
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Medical Where can I find research on altering the inner monologue?

  • Matt2012
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Evaluating Claims About Climate Change: Six Arguments

  • Andre
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What is the Heart Rate and Sound Frequency of a 5kg Carp?

  • Adder_Noir
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Is T. Rex Related to Chickens?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Why Do Bugs Flip Over Before Dying?

  • marcusl
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Medical Some questions about action potentials

  • CausativeAgent
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Medical Internal Clocks: Strange Anecdote of Accurate Timing

  • Dave223
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Does Not Sleeping Make You Lose Weight?

  • ziad1985
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What Solvent Can Be Used to Dissolve Collagen?

  • zhengw
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Why does the unpaired Y-chromosome need palindromic DNA sequences?

  • aereal
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Is coffee good or bad for your health?

  • moe darklight
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Has human activity truly affected the Earth's climate?

  • jamie4w
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Medical Brain Physics: Physicists' Role in Brain Functions Research

  • Larry89
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Medicinal chemistry job losses in pharmaceutical industry

  • gravenewworld
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