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  • It’s a transverse section so it’s not really ‘top down’ or ‘bottom up’. It’s a thin slice where the densities of the tissue is calculated by sending through X-rays from around the body and measuring how much gets trough from each angle and then letting a computer do some fancy math.

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  • TBF this doesn’t have anything to do with sexism, it’s just general incompetence. Listening to the lungs with a stethoscope would have been enough to notice that something was very wrong.

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    Illegal medical lab containing bioengineered mice and infectious agents including HIV and herpes discovered in California
  • There’s this docu series on netflix (unnatural selection) about genetic engineering in general but also about some people (with and without science background) who believe that anyone should be able to do genetic engineering at home (Josiah Zayner is one of them, i believe he still sells lab equipment and reagents for anyone who want to do some DIY bio-engineering). They also follow this guy who stopped taking his HIV meds and started using some kind of antibody that was developed by some shady company (it didn’t work and guess what; not a single physician was involved). I believe one of these shady guys was found dead in a sensory deprivation pod with ketamine in his blood.

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  • https:// www.quantamagazine.org /the-cause-of-depression-is-probably-not-what-you-think-20230126/

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2186597

    > A very readable article about chronic depression and the serotonin hypothesis. > > Psychiatry seems like a very interesting field for neuroscience since there's not really any psychiatric disease that is understood today. Lots of room for progress I guess.

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    Say it ain’t so
  • White bread, cheese (at least not the one on burgers) and red meat aren’t exactly known as healthy foods. Definitely not in the proportions of a burger. Even more definitely not when you boil the meat in oil (often together with the onions).

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    FTX lobbyist tried to buy Pacific island of Nauru to create a new superspecies, lawsuit says
  • I don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong with eugenics. Screening for genetic diseases before birth is eugenics, selecting the best embryos for ivf is eugenics. Believing that people with severe genetic disabilities should be counseled before conceiving is eugenics as well.

    The issue is the way it's done and the reason for it.

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  • www.youtube.com Artem Kirsanov

    I'm a computational neuroscience student and researcher. On this channel we seek to understand the brain and do deep explorations of interesting topics & papers from neuroscience (and related fields)

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2037477

    > I’m not sure how many people know about these videos but I think they’re pretty cool. I’ve been watching some of them and for anyone with a basic knowledge of neuroscience and math, they’re pretty interesting and accessible. > > The visuals are also amazing, a bit like the 3blue1brown videos. Just thought i’d share.

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1779005

    > Apparently this was done because air captures less X-rays than CSF and thus creates more contrast with brain tissue compared to the cerebrospinal fluid. > > Unfortunately this was pretty painful and uncomfortable.

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    Octopuses sleep—and possibly dream—just like humans
  • Eyes in general are crazy, the last common ancestor between octopuses and humans didn’t even have eyes so both types of eyes developed independently.

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