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Has there even been a clinical study where healthy volunteers consented to be infected with a pathogen?

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Are there any organisms that are made of more than one (~5-12) cell?

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Do cochineals ("scale bugs") form aluminium complexes themselves? Where do they get such large quantities so quickly and how do they handle it safely?

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What is this insect? Possible assassin bug? or kissing bug?

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Are bleach solutions still routinely used in biochemistry laboratories to rid surfaces of bacteria, viruses, certain enzymes, and nucleic acids?

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What did Darwin mean by "degraded flowers"?

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Which animals do bait hunting?

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How much air does a square meter of sugar beet consume per hour?

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What is the motivation behind the CCA -> CCU modification between SARS-CoV-2 and the mRNA vaccine when encoding the signal peptide?

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How can cane sugar sucrose be different from beet sugar in regard to carbon-13 content?

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Which animal dug this 5 cm diameter hole deep into mud and build a large mound around it?

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Are there any thermogenic plants which are suitable as houseplants?

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Is there an enzyme that functions without being associated with a complex?

3 votes

Why is a solution of cesium chloride used in Meselson & Stahl's DNA replication experiment?

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Questions about Cohesin - what does the ATPase domain do, and any suggested PDBs to look at?

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Bats observed hunting insect prey - any evidence of "handedness" (laterality) in circular flight pattern?

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What are the stretch of amino acids?

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Roughly speaking how stable are short sections of single-stranded RNA in exposed environments compared to double-stranded DNA?

3 votes

Self-study genetics

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Help with understanding XKCD's “How Vaccine Failure due to Viral Vector Immunity Works” Why is this response a failure exactly?

3 votes

Cause of premature death in turtle eggs

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Why are there so many carbonic anhydrase structures in the Protein Data Bank?

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What are these little brown insects

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Chromosomal disorders

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What terrestrial trait makes cetaceans so successful in an aquatic lifestyle?

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What is the probability for an offspring to inherit schizophrenia?

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Meaning of the word "targeted" in a description of chromatin immunoprecipitation

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Where can I find free authoritative images of different species of Lagomorphs?

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Growing Penicillium Digitatum Mold

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Why is there not an immune response to injected immunoglobulins?