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There's a pretty big caveat to C. elegans longevity studies though: the cause of death. The worms stop being able to eat bacteria long before they actually die, so they generally starve to death. As a result, a lot of genes and drugs that are associated with longevity in these worms are...

I don't blame Blizzard for this, but I don't know if they learned anything. I played vanilla, BC, and WoTLK, and they definitely had something that the newer expansions don't (only tried playing MoP). Sure, I don't have the time to play MMORPGs anymore and can't offer a detailed comparison...

I'm all for self driving cars, and I'm a car enthusiast. I see people coast to a stop while texting at every damn light. It feels like half the people I pass on the highway are texting. Cars can turn, accelerate, and stop better than they ever have before, but even when people are sort of...

It may not be the best execution, but this makes sense. Even if AMD's Zen is fantastic and genuinely equal or superior to Intel's offerings, benchmark and (Intel) compiler shenanigans are probably going to muddy the waters. It's even more important for them to raise this point if Zen turns out...

Agreed. This whole thing has been odd in terms of reporting. My best guess about why no one else seems to be gearing up for production and approval is that the market is too small, the personnel and equipment too expensive (compared to doing something else), and there is an ever-present threat...

Even worse: these are the sorts of people who produce drug-resistant bacteria when they actually do have a bacterial infection. They want a pill that makes them feel better. Once they feel better, they stop taking the pills. That's how you select for only the resistant bacteria (which likely...

I find it peculiar that it is so difficult to find information on the effectiveness of phage therapy despite its (apparently successful) use in the Soviet Union for decades (though I'm not very well versed in this subject). It's also a bit odd to me that people are often so concerned about the...

A minefield of a topic, naturally (especially editing human embryos). It doesn't help that many people approach the topics at hand from wildly different viewpoints. As someone educated to some degree in biological engineering, it seems silly to me that we are so sentimental about human...

Somewhat surprisingly... apparently noScript + careful whitelisting + self destructing cookies + HTTPS everywhere (disabled on test site) actually works decently. I'm not sure if it's mostly noScript or HTTPS everywhere. It's picking up some weird phantom results, though. I definitely haven't...

While preventing unnecessary use of antibiotics is a good thing (why hasn't the FDA dropped the hammer on feedlots for this?), the greatest risk factor for developing resistance is not finishing the course of antibiotics. If you have an inexperienced strain of bacteria (never exposed to this...

I'm not sure how to feel about this, because previous experience has made me believe that WARF is a parasitic blight upon science. For a slight expansion on what the article already states, WARF holds a patent on any stably cultured *human embryonic stem cells* (!!) that was issued in 2006...

This simply isn't true. If safety was paramount over every other objective, there wouldn't be sports at all due to the risk of injury. Coaches and teachers try to mitigate the risks through good safety practices and equipment, but they're only allowing the remaining risk because they believe...

As other posters have already pointed out, poor adherence to drug therapy is THE way to produce resistant HIV strains. Drug resistance is also the leading cause of treatment failure. The drug cocktails are extremely effective against wild type strains of HIV, but as new resistant strains form...

People are very bad at being objective in most situations, and unfortunately a lot of those situations appear in court rooms. However, as much as it pains me to lend a slight degree of credibility to the notion that facial structure can be indicative of personality... it is biologically...

*Edit: Dangit, post got eaten by the internet... I totally agree with this. FF7 was extremely ambitious, more so than pretty much any 3D Final Fantasy following it, and even at the time technical limitations were sort of obvious. FF8 was graphically a massive improvement, but its story was...

I know Soyuz does it, but powered capsule landings still sound terrifying. The optimal strategy for efficiency is called a "suicide burn" (hint hint), which is to wait until the last moment and apply as much thrust as possible to minimize gravity losses and take maximum advantage of aerodynamic...

This is another one of those weird issues... In theory, there is nothing wrong with allowing modders to charge for their mods. Mods can take huge amounts of work and modders can ask whatever price they want. I also can buy or not buy whatever I want. I hope that Valve will try to make sure...

I always find it interesting when a product is made with a vision that can be difficult to justify, but also satisfies that particular vision very well. If you judge it by the intent (which seems to be for a streamlined, small, super-portable laptop for non-power users), then it does quite...

I find it embarrassing how poorly endurance racing is broadcast in the U.S. WEC and to a lesser extent the Tudor series (it was better when it was ALMS) are just fantastic to watch partially because of all of the different classes on the field at once. Positions are always changing, passes...

This is really interesting. I can't get access to the full paper right now, but I'm curious to see how they characterized an immunization that only "activated" CD4+ cells ("activated" is also a very nebulous term for those of us pursuing quantitative approaches to biology). It sounds very...