Unanswered Questions
4,261 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Additive genetic variance components from LMER in R
I've set up some dummy data in R which makes 40 genetically related lines, they are all siblings within a line so are genetically related by a factor of ½ thus additive genetic variance should be ...
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At which step should I apply a detection filter when preprocessing microarray data? (Before/After normalization, batch effects removal)
What is the best practice when preprocessing microarray data using a detection filter (on scanner p-value)?
Suppose I have a microarray dataset that I have to normalize with Loess and correct with ...
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Effect of Aging on SA node's sympathetic fibers
I am trying to understand the effect of aging on the sympathetic fibers of SA node.
I know that aging shifts the vagal curve to left in frequency due to aging.
However, I am interested if aging has ...
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Identify this organism I found in my food
I found this thing floating in my orange juice this morning.
I pulled it out and it appears to be some sort of protozoa or something. It's about a quarter the size of my pinky nail. Was not moving at ...
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Contact Inhibition of Cell Division: Signaling Pathway
The following article refers to contact inhibition of cell division in epithelial cells, specifically MDCK cells: Collective and single cell behavior in epithelial contact inhibition.
In their review ...
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What are these bladder snail parasites?
I collected some bladder snails several months ago. While checking them out one day, I noticed that they were now infested with external, parasitic worms.
Here's a picture of a snail with a bunch of ...
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Identifying Some Kind Of Fossil
This was found off the coast of Ireland by a friend of mine. The running gag is it's some kind of fetish or totem and should be immediately discarded, but we're interested in whether it's perhaps a ...
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What is this thing that is growing in my yard? And should I get rid ot if?
I live in Wilmington, Delaware (Mid-Atlantic USA). The north side of my yard is largely shaded by my house and grass is spotty.
Periodically when I go into the yard I will find as many as four pod-...
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Which is the reference 16S rRNA
Recently, I've stumbled upon a fact, which hasn't bothered me for many years. The fact is that all universal 16S primers are written as "[FR][0-9]+" (in regex notation), that is they have a position ...
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What is the connection between sleep requirement and age?
By this question: Is the human biological clock genetically programmed or learnt? we discussed that the sleep requirement depends on the age of the individual.
- Figure 1. - Sleep requirements by age ...
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How do antibiotics combined with a non-Western diet affect weight loss?
Wikipedia describes a Western diet as:
... higher intakes of red and processed meat, butter, high-fat dairy products, eggs, refined grains, white potatoes, french fries, and high-sugar drinks.
In ...
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I am trying to identify this plant
I am trying to identify this medium arching shrub growing to about 1.5m high x 2m wide in the subtropical climate of the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens in Brisbane, Australia. Unfortunately there was no ...
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What insect is this? I saw it in my house in Kolkata on 2 April 2018, at 8:00 p.m
I saw this insect in my house in Kolkata (India) on 2 April, 2018 after a storm at around 8:00 p.m. I would like to know what insect it is. Thanks in advance.
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Are there certain symmetric-pair muscles that are slightly bigger and NOT due to handedness?
Ok, hear me out, I was just thinking about an article in Nature I read in the past titled "Scrotal asymmetry in man and in ancient sculpture"$^{\dagger}$ and more recently an entire medical textbook ...
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What predates on cactus in the Atacama desert?
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Last week, I was in the Atacama desert where I've seen many cacti. Some / many of them were seemingly suffering from predation. Most of predation seemed to be on cardón, often restricted ...
