You could argue that for any infection with whatever agent, of course, as once the immune system is compromised co-infection can rapidly occur. Death...
a) Streptococcus is a bacterium, not a virus. b) It depends on the definition whether a given bacterium is airborne. If you mean whether they are...
No Nasor. Fitness in an evolutionary context is not as arbitrary as you appear to think it is. Absolute fitness of an allele is the ratio of those...
Because natural selection does give a direction. It is the very definition of it. Seriously, this is about the most basic concept you will find in...
This getting nowhere. A gene centered view does not mean that each individual gene operates in a vacuum. The fitness each gene it exerts is a...
Actually in Latin the phrase "alea iacta est" does not allow that much ambiguity as alea refers to the die in the context of a die game. I.e. the die...
Please, do not use "proteomics" in such a context. It makes my eyes bleed. Proteomics is an analytical field dealing with the analysis of proteomes....
Of course genes are not transmitted individually but by the organism. The question is, from the viewpoint of the gene, does its influence increase...
Alternatively make it mandatory to carry AKs (or equivalents) if you want to go to a sports bar. With some luck it will cut down fistfights.
Weeeell, technically they should probably be referred to as popular science magazines, I think. The reason being that they are not peer-reviewed,...
Well, as already mentioned, jobs directly in the field of Bio are not that abundant. An academic career is a big risk, industrial positions are...
quadraphonics, the Mosuo, are actually a matriarchy. If no suitable woman can take over a house, an outside woman may become "adopted" and made de...
Eating grad students is bad for your health (and is pretty bland). Usually coffee is consumed for breakfast. And then some more later. An alternative...
String is right. It is all in the way they market it. If they just state that it is good and healthy then it should be OK. However, more detailed...
I cannot watch the movie here, however I pretty sure that students and workers together were well under a million. I would have to check how much it...
First, the protests on tiananmen square took a bit less than two months. Just read it up. However it appears that in your mind it was a Beijing-wide...
Also it depends whether one wants to focus on an industrial career vs an academic one.
It has been a while and my memory is clearly not what it used to be, but I am dead sure that it was way longer. If memory serves it was almost two...
This is partially true. More precisely one should add that it is harder and almost impossible to learn a different language accent-free, if the...
There are dozens (surely more) of theories regarding the decline of the Roman empire, but I would be surprised if any of them would characterize it...
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