AmidFuror

To each their own, sibling.

I think these specialty schools are great, but they should probably modernize the name to be gender inclusive.

If you ever want to go to a school where you can study quietly, consider the Colorado School of Mimes.

It’s good to see these postal workers-in-training doing investigations in the public interest.

That wasn’t in response to the ongoing Covid pandemic?

There’s zero chance the conference can be moved so close to its date. I guess it could be cancelled or postponed to next year.

I plan to publish in the Journal of Unreproducible Results.

I have more faith in humanity. I think the upvotes are because it’s recognized as a joke.

For those who didn’t read the article, they ask patients to insert a nasal swab into either nostril for 5 minutes. Meanwhile they have you fill out a questionnaire. Once complete, you are free to leave.

Any patient who walks out of the office with the swab still jammed up their nose is likely to be developing Alzheimer’s.

On a hot and dry September day, she recalled a swarm of flies bombarding her face. About a week later, she had facial pain and then developed a cough over the next two to three weeks. Those were her only symptoms until October 15, when she sneezed and reported that “worms” came out of her nose. They were, in fact, late-stage sheep bot fly larvae.

Seth Brundle would be a good intermediate.

The foreskin research is just the tip of the spear for this promising, if sensitive, area. Even if they make errors and have to retract, there’s nothing stopping what’s coming.

They’ve had the map of Drosophila for a while, but this may be the first time it was connected to a simulated body. Fruit flies have ~125,000 neurons compared to C. elegans with 302.

Looks like they evolved DNA polymerases that are able to incorporate RNA or DNA bases when copying a DNA or RNA template. This is the first time a DNA polymerase has been known to have this capability. But, of course, there are already transcriptases that copy DNA to RNA and reverse transcriptases that go the other way around.

Natural enzymes tend to evolve for specialized roles. In nature, there are going to be RNA and DNA bases around all the time, and you don’t want to randomly incorporate them in mixtures.

I guess the advantage here is that these have higher fidelity, so they could be very useful for molecular biologists who want accurate RNAs or RT reactions.

Didn’t we have a map of C. elegans brain (and entire body) many years ago? I’m a little surprised they didn’t do something like this with the nematode first given its relative simplicity.

Here’s a Nature pub from late 2024.

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The post title has been edited to strip me of all joy.

What capitalization rules are being applied to this headline? Seems like it’s out of The Art of the Style by Trump & White.

I’d rather have my liver here on Earth. It would cost a fortune to send my blood into space to process alcohol.

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I will try this. I could normally eat no more than a half chicken in a sitting, but now I’m inspired to go for the whole thing.