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The drug companies regularly paid doctors for their endorsement, even going so far as to draft their lab articles.11 This created more incentives. The first financial incentive was payment, but then, once your name is linked with endorsement of a drug, you have an incentive in
Shane Parrish • The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
Robert Sapolsky: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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On January 21, European researchers published the results of a test that they said could accurately find the new coronavirus.2 The test was called a PCR test, the letters standing for polymerase chain reaction. It looked for specific chains of nucleotides unique to Sars-Cov-2 and then used a complex chemical process to multiply those chains until t
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Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
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Together, the microbes living on the human body contain 4.4 million genes – this is the microbiome: the collective genomes of the microbiota. These genes collaborate in running our bodies alongside our 21,000 human genes. By that count, you are just half a per cent human.
Alanna Collen • 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
Fermat's Library | Life's Irreducible Structure annotated/explained version.
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