The majority of replicating virus will be within the cells of the respiratory epithelium. "Filtering" the blood would do virtually nothing for the course of the disease. The most virulent strains of influenza infect many tissues throughout the body. How do you think it spreads? Anything you can do to slow down the spread of the infection might help relieve the severity of the disease, and give the immune system an edge.
I'm not saying this technology is revolutionary, but it's interesting enough that I would give it the benefit of the doubt.
it does not, however, allow the patient to build up an autoimmune response to the target contaminant. I think it would be very unfortunate for the patient if it caused him to "build up" and autoimmune response.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmune
...it's only a short-term solution. A short term clearance of virus may be all that is needed. Virulence (ie how sick you get) is usually proportional to your viral load. Cutting the viral load may prevent sickness and give the immune system time to adapt.
Given the ubiquity of dialysis machines, I'm interested if this could become a common therapy for very acute infections. Tens of thousands of elderly people die from flu every year...
...retard for a president, they are well on the way to being the worst totalitarian state out there. Technically I think it (meaning "we") is turning into more of a corporatist kleptocracy with imperial overtones. "Totalitarian" is far off the mark.
We have the names of U.S states and capitals rammed down our necks by countless TV shows and movies and they don't even know we have states. This is part of a sinister plot to prepare aussies for their citizenship exam when they are finally annexed. Now repeat after me: Olympia, Boise, Salem, Sacramento, Carson City, Salt Lake, Cheyenne, Helena, Austin...
As terrible as things are now, you are really going overboard (to an anti-American extreme). It's more accurate to say the US has had more or less ethical foreign policy at different times with a mixed record on human rights.
Take the bombing of Hiroshima for example. I think this was probably a mistake, but you can find many well-reasoned arguments supporting it. And the fact is, the decision was made by just a few men (principally Truman) in a time of war. It's not like there was a referendum. And what do you think other countries would have done? So how are you blaming the US exactly?
You also have to admit that all things are relative. In the first half of the 20th century, the US comes out looking like a saint. Remember it was just the remnants of the British empire and the US that stopped fascism and Stalinism.
Thank you! Predictably, the slash-mob is outraged at this. But we are preaching to the choir here. Reasonable people need to speak out. This is especially apparent if you read the readers' comments in TFA. Lots of reactionary BS there. So let's fill these guys' mailboxes with the sort of comments in this thread.
How can you say "no one will publish your work"? They were published in J Roy Soc, a respected journal. It's not like there was a conspiracy against them or something.
Regarding #2: I would hardly say that getting published in J Roy Soc is tantamount to being shut out of the science journals. J Roy Soc is an important family of journals. Maybe they failed to publish in Nature or something, but so do 95% of the people who try. There's no evidence of discrimination here.
Regarding #3: No reasonable person would say that there aren't scientists who disagree with the developing consensushttp://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf on climate change. But an unreasonable person (like you) would claim that there isn't a scientific consensus on climate change.
I have to call bullshit on you calling bullshit. What kind of lousy journals are you reading? In physics/theoretical biology journals, excel figs are very rare. And there's a definite trend towards *not* using excel as the quality of the journal increases. Just flip through a few "flagship" journals: Nature, Science, PLoS. Very few (if any) excel figs.
> I've looked at plotting libraries for Python, including the gnuplot interface, as well as wxPlot
I've been using matplotlib (http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/) recently, which is looking very good indeed. What if you need to plot 1001 lines, with custom symbols, and with unique x+y axes, all in the same figure? I had to do that recently and matplotlib was the only thing that could do the trick (and not look shitty).
Basically everyone I know uses matlab or octave if they need to do serious work with large datasets. That said, I wish there were better open source spreadsheet options for little jobs.
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Ironically, this will probably turn out to be better than the prequels. I mean, we don't expect convincing performances from a bunch of CG characters.
The lower our expectations are, the happier we'll be.
I'm not saying this technology is revolutionary, but it's interesting enough that I would give it the benefit of the doubt.
...it's only a short-term solution. A short term clearance of virus may be all that is needed. Virulence (ie how sick you get) is usually proportional to your viral load. Cutting the viral load may prevent sickness and give the immune system time to adapt. Given the ubiquity of dialysis machines, I'm interested if this could become a common therapy for very acute infections. Tens of thousands of elderly people die from flu every year...
...retard for a president, they are well on the way to being the worst totalitarian state out there. Technically I think it (meaning "we") is turning into more of a corporatist kleptocracy with imperial overtones. "Totalitarian" is far off the mark.As terrible as things are now, you are really going overboard (to an anti-American extreme). It's more accurate to say the US has had more or less ethical foreign policy at different times with a mixed record on human rights. Take the bombing of Hiroshima for example. I think this was probably a mistake, but you can find many well-reasoned arguments supporting it. And the fact is, the decision was made by just a few men (principally Truman) in a time of war. It's not like there was a referendum. And what do you think other countries would have done? So how are you blaming the US exactly? You also have to admit that all things are relative. In the first half of the 20th century, the US comes out looking like a saint. Remember it was just the remnants of the British empire and the US that stopped fascism and Stalinism.
Thank you! Predictably, the slash-mob is outraged at this. But we are preaching to the choir here. Reasonable people need to speak out. This is especially apparent if you read the readers' comments in TFA. Lots of reactionary BS there. So let's fill these guys' mailboxes with the sort of comments in this thread.
How can you say "no one will publish your work"? They were published in J Roy Soc, a respected journal. It's not like there was a conspiracy against them or something.
Regarding #2: I would hardly say that getting published in J Roy Soc is tantamount to being shut out of the science journals. J Roy Soc is an important family of journals. Maybe they failed to publish in Nature or something, but so do 95% of the people who try. There's no evidence of discrimination here.
Regarding #3: No reasonable person would say that there aren't scientists who disagree with the developing consensushttp://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf on climate change. But an unreasonable person (like you) would claim that there isn't a scientific consensus on climate change.
Regarding #4: crap.
>I call bullshit.
I have to call bullshit on you calling bullshit. What kind of lousy journals are you reading? In physics/theoretical biology journals, excel figs are very rare. And there's a definite trend towards *not* using excel as the quality of the journal increases. Just flip through a few "flagship" journals: Nature, Science, PLoS. Very few (if any) excel figs.
> I've looked at plotting libraries for Python, including the gnuplot interface, as well as wxPlot
I've been using matplotlib (http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/) recently, which is looking very good indeed. What if you need to plot 1001 lines, with custom symbols, and with unique x+y axes, all in the same figure? I had to do that recently and matplotlib was the only thing that could do the trick (and not look shitty).
Basically everyone I know uses matlab or octave if they need to do serious work with large datasets. That said, I wish there were better open source spreadsheet options for little jobs.