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| bio | website | nicolaromano.net |
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| location | Montpellier, France | |
| age | 32 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 5 months |
| seen | 19 hours ago | |
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I'm a researcher in neuroendocrinology
I'm interested in all that regards pattern recognition, time series analysis, rhythms etc.
My current research focuses in the exploration and modulation of the neuro-endocrine patterns that contribute to the generation of hormone pulsatility.
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Apr 7 |
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What's the Evolutionary Purpose of Religion? This sounds to me as social advantages, not evolutionary ones. Not everything needs to have an evolutionary advantage. |
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Apr 6 |
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What's the difference between life expectancy of cigarette smoker and general population? @terdon: agree. I was just nitpicking |
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Apr 6 |
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What's the difference between life expectancy of cigarette smoker and general population? @terdon: I mantain that you inhale smoke, you do not ingest it. Ingest is mostly used for food (Oxford English Dictionary, offline edition :P). English aside, I do not doubt that smoke contains radicals, what I am saying is that they are most likely not those that directly affect DNA. They will rather generate cascade reactions creating new radicals, oxidising proteins and so on, especially in such a oxygen-rich milieu as the lungs. |
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Apr 6 |
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What's the difference between life expectancy of cigarette smoker and general population? @terdon: seriously doubt you would ever "ingest" (although inhale would be the correct word) free radicals from smoking. They are too short lived and reactive to be actually directly inhaled. |
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Apr 6 |
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How can homosexuality evolve despite natural selection? Why does it need an evolutionary explication? Not everything needs to be selected for. This is like asking why myopia (which in certain parts of the world can have a prevalence of >70%) evolved despite natural selection... |
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Apr 4 |
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Are there eukaryotes without introns? thanks for the edit, I was speaking about the ciliates, as I did not know about that. |
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Apr 4 |
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Are there eukaryotes without introns? Could you expand with some examples? |
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Mar 30 |
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What is the brightest color a light source that only emits blue frequency light can achieve? Generally, looking at the ray of a fairly powerful laser (3-4W) you still see it of whatever color it is (blue, red etc, but not white). NOTE: be careful if you try this, it may be very dangerous! Never look directly into the laser beam. |
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Mar 30 |
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205 nm UV-Vis readings DNA absorbance seems to be as high at 205 as at 260. faculty.evansville.edu/be6/b4454/DNAspectrum.gif?dur=2225 |
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Mar 30 |
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205 nm UV-Vis readings @MattDMo: I guess it is because usually nucleic acids are measured at 260. However, I am not sure 205 would remove DNA background noise... These are very approximative quantifications anyways, and only give a general idea of protein concentration. |
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Mar 30 |
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Least painful way to die Good answer but... there is a big point to be made on lab animals. Certain drugs may or may not be appropriate if the animals are to be used for experiments, as the drug may inficiate the results (e.g. I would avoid barbiturates if the animal's brain is being used for doing electrophysiology afterwards) |
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Mar 29 |
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How long can I store autoclaved disposables and reagents? The question is quite clear: how long autoclaved plasticware stays sterile? Sterility does not in any way depend on SOP. Either something is sterile or it is not. |
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Mar 29 |
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How long can I store autoclaved disposables and reagents? @dd3: why would it be less? |
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Mar 29 |
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What's the difference between life expectancy of cigarette smoker and general population? There is a link to the PDF on the right, copied, saved it on my HD then uploaded it here (or you can just grab a screenshot). |
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Mar 29 |
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What's the difference between life expectancy of cigarette smoker and general population? I have added Figure 2 to the answer (it is free to view and it is clearly fair use anyways) |
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Mar 28 |
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Can mammals from different species reproduce? Related: biology.stackexchange.com/questions/2705/… and biology.stackexchange.com/questions/3063/… |
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Mar 28 |
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Why do some people find vegetables so repellent when evolutionarily they should find them an attractive and thus tasty food? It would be nice to see some actual numbers (peer-reviewed papers anyone?) showing food preferences in different countries... that may tell a lot. |
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Mar 28 |
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Why do some people find vegetables so repellent when evolutionarily they should find them an attractive and thus tasty food? I "tuned down" a little bit the question. Saying that "people find vegetables repellent" is a gross exaggeration. Some people may do, but I would not say that they are the majority (unless you have proof otherwise). |
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Mar 27 |
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What is background binding? "Background binding" usually refers to aspecific binding between two proteins. The details depend on the test that was used. |
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Mar 26 |
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what's an ethics-friendly way to measure the protocol of electric shocking mice? well, if you're doing electrophysiology maybe you could chronically implant them. For imaging it gets complicated... |
