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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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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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As an editor for peer-reviewed journal, what would you consider appropriate in making a decision to accept a peer-reviewer's report?
When evaluating a peer-reviewed study on surface water resources used for a commercial water operation, it is expected that the reviewer will thoroughly assess the methodology, including water sampling procedures and data analysis. In addition, the reviewer should identify potential oversights and suggest necessary improvements or alternative methods. However, when an expert reviewer raises concerns, and the authors respond with contrary submissions supported by well-detailed references, how...
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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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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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Do co-authors in low and middle income countries (LMICs) really engage in a research paper they are listed?
Number of published research papers were among the criteria of promotions for academic staffs and researchers in many localities. This might have been caused biased and false publications in resource limited countries. Should researchers study researchers?
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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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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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How far do you feel Cough syrups really help in viral cough usually dry without phlegm?
People specially after Post covid era, consuming 2-3 cough syrup bottles which are easily available over the counter without looking for composition, rationale and benefits. Is it really helpful or harmful?
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How do you call an outcome if you have multiple endpoints to investigate it?
Hello, When you want to investigate exacerbations (outcome of interest) in asthma, you can measure: 1) the incidence rate in the last year (i.e. mean numbers of exacerbations in the last year in your total population); 2) the frequency of patients reporting one exacerbation in the last year; 3) the time-to-1st-exacerbation within the last year. So you have 3 different endpoints to explore the same outcome. Could you please help me in finding the technical term to define this property of the...
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