Questions tagged [experiment]
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Short, concise, practical manual for doing experimental biology
I am am physical scientist working in biology, and have recently started doing experiments. I would like a manual akin to "Numerical Recipes", but for the lab: straight forward, easy instructions on ...
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Appropriate statistical test for a student lab?
I am a HS Bio teacher and doing a microevolution lab involving candy. Essentially students use four candy types and push them together until one cracks (Nat Sel). They also do simulations of migration,...
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What advantages could there be for using the unseen variant chosen by He Jiankui instead of the naturally occurring CCR5-∆ 32 mutation?
Jennifer Doudna mentioned in https://youtu.be/9Yblg9wDHZA?t=2566 on 2019-02-21 that He Jiankui introduced an unseen variant of the CCR5 gene when gene editing the twin humans Lulu and Nana. What ...
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Can we directly stimulate M cones in retina with current technology?
I wonder if we could try to see imaginary "supergreen" color by directly stimulating M cones. For this I suppose we'd need:
Non-destructively scan specific human's retina to locate exact positions of ...
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How should I feed and keep an ant queen?
I have captured wandering ant queen. I guess she was just fertilised and was looking for a place to start a hive.
I'd like to create my own ant hive in artificial environment.
I unfortunately only ...