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What technological revolutions are needed for the most likely curative breakthrough in cancer treatment?
What disruptive technological revolutions are most needed to achieve a truly curative breakthrough? For example, universal CAR-T, personalized neoantigen vaccines, in situ gene editing, and new mechanisms to overcome drug resistance and metastasis. Please express your own opinions
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It seems Duffy negativity does not offer a 100% resistance to vivax malaria in Africans; any clues as to why this is so?????
Duffy polymorphism and malaria, any link?
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How can medical microrobots improve our awareness regarding the diagnosis and treatment of diseases?
How can medical microrobots improve our awareness regarding the diagnosis and treatment of diseases?
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How to examine for power of grip in a patient with weakness?
When we do clinical examination for weakness, power is ascertained by MRC grading. However, for grip, MRC grading cannot be used. Is there any method to examine hand grip power other than using dynamometer
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For respiratory viruses, should folks wear masks in public a) always, b) if they are or may be infected, or c) if they are afraid of getting infected? Are masks a) protection, or b) social signals?
Since 2020, the public has thought of masks as having a protective purpose, and many rebel at the inconvenience, rationalizing that “they do a poor job of protecting.” Is the current epidemic a good opportunity for government and medicine to teach the folks about the more important virtues of using masks to convey information?
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How can I do a mediation model with one categorical and two continuous variables?
How can I do a mediation model with one categorical and two continuous variables
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How is it possible to say how long the medical implants that are inside the human body will function?
The functional lifespan of implants placed inside the body How we can trust or know that an implant will work for a specific period?
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How many samples do you need to analyze for effective blood plasma products quality control?
A blood bank is set up with a laboratory for the preparation of blood components. Product quality control (e.g. plasma sterility) should be performed. How many samples do you need to analyze for effective control? How do you calculate this number? Does it vary depending on the total number of components produced?
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In what way is fluence-dependent photobiomodulation at 660 nm modulating mitochondrial-driven motility and acrosomal membrane stability in human spermatozoa, and can a simulation-based model incorpora
This question integrates: Biophysical mechanisms (mitochondrial activity, acrosomal membrane) Photobiomodulation parameters (fluence, wavelength) Computational modeling (simulation-based, biological noise) Clinical translation (fertility optimization
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What are the potentials and ethical challenges that CRISPR-Cas9 technology is opening up in modern medicine?
CRISPR-Cas9, a revolutionary gene-editing tool, allows scientists to precisely cut and paste DNA sequences. This capability opens vast possibilities for medicine, but also brings significant ethical dilemmas.
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