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  1. Gray on Does All of Science Really Move In 'Paradigm Shifts'? · · Score: 1

    This phrase:" 'paradigm shift' to describe revolutionary changes in scientific fields" needs to be explained more carefully. Till what degree is a change considered a "paradigm shift"? What is considered a revolutionary change? Nowadays AIDS ain't cured but instead of dying in months you die in decades. Cancer is not cured in a general sense but a good amount of cancers, specially in early stages can be cured...These aren't absolute changes, or paradigm shifts but certainly more important than most issues that can come to your mind... For funding, research and peer finding please refer to the non-profit Aging Portfolio.

  2. Dirty on Standard Kilogram Gains Weight · · Score: 1

    Do they are gently saying that the dirty hands of the researchers are making these weights inaccurate... You never get enough of "use gloves" & "wash you hands" in the lab. For funding, research and peer finding please refer to the non-profit Aging Portfolio.

  3. Alternative on Worldwide Shortage of Barium · · Score: 1

    What about trying to reutilize or recycle barium? If you can't get enough nor find a good alternative. For example, in clinical test, can't they save their patients urine for later quenching? For funding, research and peer finding please refer to the non-profit Aging Portfolio.

  4. Maybe on Carrion Flies Used To Find New Species · · Score: 1

    It sounds very promising but obtaining biodiversity profiles from flies guts is no easy tasks. When you collect samples from an enviorement to analyze which litle bugs and bacteria are there you end up with an estimation. The reason? You obtain the DNA from all of them and then proceed to break it into small chunks at discrete places and those are sequenced. Then a piece of software tries to guess how all that fits, and barely achieves it most times...Now ad to that, that the fly has already diggested those pieces DNA in quite radom places and amounts... The idea sounds good, the reality...? Maybe good enough for general specied mapping but not for species discovering. Maybe for "unknown origin chunks"... For funding, research and peer finding please refer to the non-profit Aging Portfolio.

  5. Flu, what flu? on Boston Declares Health Emergency Due To Massive Flu Outbreak · · Score: 1

    It would be interesting to see which sectors encourage their sick workers to stay at home and which encourage then to still go to work. Of course, even more interesting would be to see the outcomes... For funding, research and peer finding please refer to the non-profit Aging Portfolio.

  6. Transparent enough on Fireflies Bring Us Brighter LEDs · · Score: 1

    So how long before we meet the new firefly yeasts? hehe. By the way for hi-tech and research this will be very useful but for common usage we still have to see if the price rate really make it a reality. For funding, research and peer finding please refer to the non-profit Aging Portfolio.

  7. Sounds good on Drug Allows Deafened Mice to Regrow Inner Ear Hair · · Score: 1

    This is really good. As of now we can say that some useful transdifferentiation is on the way. Of course this woudnt be so easy in organs with a much complex structure, like the retina, but still a great step forward. We already know that some cells can migrate in the adult brain, like those renewed for smelling. It may only take time for 1+1=2! For funding, research and peer finding please refer to the non-profit Aging Portfolio.

  8. I undestand those that claim that these guys assume this risks for good amount of money like tose that work in the army. But this isnt such a neccesary risk. What about developing better hemets. They can bare breaking bones, but damaging your brain is something else. I cant belive that they cant develop less fashionable and lightweight protections and more hitech and less appealing head protections. For funding, research and peer finding please refer to the non-profit Aging Portfolio.

  9. Only on it... on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 1

    ..for the money. Lets face it the US is a system deviced for located accumulation of money and reelection. Industry can stuff americans wih a gazillion calories and will be fine, medicines and threatments prices can be prohibitive and will be fine, everybody will have a gun at hand for those nerve breakdown moments and itll be fine. It is what it is...health, life are second. For funding, research and peer finding please refer to the non-profit Aging Portfolio.

  10. A work in progress on Molecular Robot Mimics Life's Protein-Builder · · Score: 1

    It certainly seems like at this point due to its low transcripting speed it is of limited usability . But as with most innovations the main creative step has been taken already. Moreover modifing the sidechains of amioacids or alterations alike in this molecular ensemble may lead to batch of discrete function protein builders which is much more interesting as it offers diversity wih respect to ribosomes. For funding, research and peer finding please refer to the non-profit Aging Portfolio.

  11. A long time issue on Manipulating Heat Like Light · · Score: 1

    Very interesting. Dont you think It always sounded weird when you were in class and the teacher claimed Energy is partially converted partially lost as heat. Certanly these thermocrystals should be kept an eye on. For funding, research and peer finding please refer to the non-profit Aging Portfolio.

  12. What to think? on FDA Closer To Approving Biotech Salmon · · Score: 1

    To my eyes genetically altered salmon doesn't pose a treat. I mean, it will change its hormone levels, maybe the taste or texture but certainly wont generate anything toxic. Any suspicious dna will be disintegrated in our digestive tract into nucleic acids. What is more intriguing or concerning is the Frankestein part. First animal, then sooner or later first mammal, probably the first pig must be around the corner, and I don't need to mention what is pretty related to pigs... Knowledge vs Use of knowledge. By the way, growing twice as fast wont mean suffer for the salmon? For funding, research and peer finding please refer to the non-profit Aging Portfolio.

  13. Money climate on Insurance Industry Looking Hard At Climate Change · · Score: 1

    So money starts to realize it is taking a hit from climate change, good. This may in fact trigger a real care for climate change. This how sad this is: untill money is involved... For funding, research and peer finding please refer to the non-profit Aging Portfolio.

  14. Very good. on How the Brain Organizes Everything We See · · Score: 1

    This I a very well done job. It is not often that research takes the easy while correct path to explain something while using appropiate statistics and self-explaining representations. Those claiming that brains differ, well, yes, but I haven't seen too many thinking with their thalamus...In fact those little differences may be the most important. Do you remember when those ancient Mengeles removed brain parts to try to achieve "behavioural"improvements? Well think of using a correct map and an IgG-toxin instead of a butcher knife. Besides its "interesting" achievements this has real applications. You want to distinguish is someone has been positively reinserted into the society, well give him, or better said his brain, the chance to prove it. You are taking psicological help? lets check the progresses! For funding, research and peer finding please refer to the non-profit Aging Portfolio.

  15. Farm farming on UK Milk Supply Contains New MRSA Strain · · Score: 1

    This is pretty serious. We usually need to take care to switch medicines as bacteria adapt to it through natural selection. Not even bacteria, but also viruses, you know like HIV. A good and big counterattack against this resistant *%$^%$ is medicine alternation. If you preselect the "adapted clones" already in the farm you are seriously exposed. I know, the factory stuff will be very carefull but it is always very difficult to avoid accidents... For funding, research and peer finding please refer to the non-profit Aging Portfolio.

  16. Was it the chicken or the egg? on Link Between Marijuana and Psychosis Goes Both Ways · · Score: 1

    If we take into account that pot eases the way in presence of pain and some cases of mental disorder it makes some evolutive or even epigenetic sense that the brain ask more for some drug-induced settlement in some stressful situations. Not saying that it has to be that way, but it certainly makes sense. Of course pot, especially in case of severe usage, can cause brain and consciusnees alterations, so it is certainly double-edge when it comes to mental disseases. For funding, research and peer finding please refer to the non-profit Aging Portfolio.

  17. A cure: cerebral dead! on Bangladesh Slaughters 150,000 Birds After Worst H5N1 Virus Outbreak In 5 Years · · Score: 1

    It is pretty funny that so much money is expend every year and so litle significative advances are reached. Before the backslash...I agree some significative improvements are reached after a thousand small steps, but what I want emphasize is the litle direct attack to the problem at task. We have bird flu and we start to research about it, we want to know every litle detail, we believe that if we can fullfil the database of knoledge about it the cure will appear by miracle in our faces. I agree that knowing more a more may increase the chances of finding a solution, but what about a direct attack? This is what I know about the dissease and now I'm gonna spend days, weeks, months thinking how to solve the issue, what technical or technological improvements may achieve it. Unforunatedly research to often correlates to re-search, rere-search, rerere-search, others may find familiar sampling, resampling, reresampling, pippeting, up,down,updown...we are lazy when it comes to think but can spend a ton of minutes doing repetitive tasks...

  18. Water on Mars-Like Conditions Sufficient to Sustain Earth-Bound Microbes · · Score: 1

    If we consider life as a tight defined set of molecules interacting in some medium and enclosed in a space we start to realize that life in a water-poor enviorement may not be very easy. Can a different liquid medium be used. Gas? Completly solid? I guess an enclosed space is certainly neccesary and a medium that allows interactions too. There may be life but probably very constrained due to enviromental constraints. For funding, research and peer finding please refer to the non-profit Aging Portfolio.