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Impact of Food Regulation on Chronic Disease
To what extent do you believe strict governmental regulation of food safety and marketing could reduce the incidence of chronic diseases in the population? - Up to 30% - Around 50% - Up to 70% - Minimal effect - It depends on cultural factors
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Role of humanized immune system mice in to study the infectious and systemic inflammatory disease.
Whether the humanized immune system (HIS) mice help developing therapeutic interventions against infectious and inflammatory diseases? Whether HIS mice may revolutionize the translational biomedical research
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Could the significantly increase in childhood diseases be associated with drug abuse and government (CDC) mandates for over-vaccination of public with pathogen-specific vaccines?
Overview of data on American health status (young and old) and the tremendous cost of healthcare (sick care, drug-dependency and hospitalization) provides compelling evidence that in the twentieth century nearly all classic disease categories (congenital, inherited, neonatal, or induced) that occurred at the rates of 2 to 5 % in the last century, shifted to increase induced diseases (at rates as high as 50 % or more), according to official reports by governmental agencies and private...
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Rheumatoid Arthritis affects around 18 million people globally and has no known cure. DMARDs help control symptoms but don’t cure the disease. What traditional remedies are used for RA in your area?
Rheumatoid Arthritis is currently a globally prevalent condition, affecting around 18 million people, with no known curative treatment. Although Disease-Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (DMARDs) are widely used and often well-tolerated, they only control symptoms and progressions not cure the disease. In many communities, including mine, various traditional treatments such as herbal remedies with best outcome, have been tried. What traditional or community-based treatments have you seen or...
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I am conducting a field experiment using a randomized complete block design. The layout includes 5 blocks, each of equal land area. Within each block, there are 5 plots, and each plot receives a diffe
I am conducting a field experiment using a randomized complete block design. The layout includes 5 blocks, each of equal land area. Within each block, there are 5 plots, and each plot receives a different single treatment. These 5 treatments are repeated across all blocks, so each treatment is replicated five times in total—once per block. My question concerns sample collection for a single treatment. What is the scientifically valid and recommended method for collecting samples and...
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The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more common in scientific research, manuscript preparation, and publishing. Do you think AI usage in research/publishing is beneficial to science?
Benefits vs Costs of AI Research and Publishing Future of Science Ethics and Integrity
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Editors at many reputable journals are having a difficult time finding peers to conduct peer reviews of submitted manuscripts for free. Do you think peer reviewers should get paid for their efforts?
Paid versus non-paid peer reviewing of scientific manuscripts Incentivizing the peer review process
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Snail mucous has many advantages, what is the best way to extract it without changing its composition?
land snails like Eremina desertorum, how can i get its mucous without killing or hurting it?
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How sustainable are current water sources—including alternatives such as desalination, wastewater reuse, and groundwater—for supporting irrigated agriculture in semi-arid and arid regions?
Over 80% of water use in semi-arid and arid regions is allocated to agricultural irrigation, making the sustainability of water sources in these areas a critical concern. The key trade-offs and long-term implications of relying on alternative waters sources are not fully understood.
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Are there concrete examples that genomics research or genomic selection led to superior crop cultivars?
Numerous articles predict that genomics research and genomic selection would accelerate plant breeding. We have been conducting a study to see how much more effective is genomic selection relative to conventional visual selection in plant cultivar development for a number of years and are about to write a summary article. We are interested in knowing similar researches and their results and conclusions.
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