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For a change in the peer-reveiwing as an urgent need?
With an increasing number of Journal and other publication, the review by peer started to be difficult and very often nonqualified reviewers are solicited. Very often now the Journal send us a list that ressemble the directory a. This is a problem since many of the persons listed here do not have even a record over 10 and there are supposed to review works they don't know, and they are not qualified. I would like to start a huge discussion that can be sent to the main Journal to change the...
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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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Why is the ammonia/ammonium concentration highly increased during storage of human urine?
Hydrolysis of urine Why is the ammonia/ammonium concentration highly increased during storage of human urine?
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Why is the death rate of male in heart disease always higher than that of women? How can a male achieve that power?
It is clear from the report of WHO that the death rate of Male in heart-disease is higher than that of women. This observation suggests that the woman may have some physical advantage. Besides, differential food, beverage-drinking, and smoking habit, etc. can also contribute to it. For example, the habit of consuming oily foods (saturated fat harms heart) is more in the case of some individuals (taste matter). Although many people are aware of the issue, they can't change the food-habits....
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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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If you have swab cultures from burn patients, what computational tools will you use to analyze the antimicrobial resistance among those cultures?
I am interested in carbapenem resistance or metallo-beta-lactamases.
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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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Are surveillance and 'omics' profiling studies being overhyped, and eating up the limited funding for scientific research?
These day, there has been a considerable increase in publications reporting some sort of genomics/transcriptomics/metagenomics profiling. While these 'omics' tools are quite useful, many researchers simply adopt them as they guarantee some 'data' output, irrespective of sample type. Whatever sample you take, it will always have some microbial species, many genes, and you can easily report this 'profiling'. To make your study look 'big', you can increase the sample size. Such studies get...
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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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