AskScience Panel of Scientists XXII |
- AskScience Panel of Scientists XXII
- Can mosquitos spread COVID-19?
- Can someone teach me about the COVID19 antibody test? What types of biomarkers are we looking for and what does that tell us?
- While most of world are being quarantined to slow down the spread of Covid-19, will it stop other virus as well? When the quarantine is over, will the general public be less easier to get sick?
- What is the lifespan of an antibody?
- Why are the first 2 leaves on seedlings a different shape to all the rest?
- How do Virologist decide the genetic code of a virus, like the new Coronavirus?
- Could there be Earth-like planets the size of the sun?
- Do organisms like bacteria or tardigrades sleep? Or something equivalent to sleep?
- How did the early hominids leave Africa?
- If the flu is caused by a different virus than the cold, but the flu symptoms are only more severe cold symptoms, then why doesn't the cold have it's own mortality rate? Does no one die from it?
- Can cats spread the COVID-19 to humans?
- What is the likely effect of social distancing on common viruses that are less contagious than Covid19?
- With all the recent posts about atmospheric pollution clearance secondary to wide spread quarantining, is this having any effect on climate changes and temperatures? Or is it too small a time frame to see any real changes?
- What is happening to the chemistry of a biscuit when it is going stale?
- At what point in the digestive journey are gasses produced? And can the gas overtake solids in the tract?
- I'm interested in learning more about viral phylogenetics
- If neutrons are not electrically charged, then how do neutron stars generate such strong magnetic fields?
- Does the "tyranny of the rocket equation" also apply to cars?
- How are vaccines made and why do they take such a long time to make?
- Why can’t we see clearly underwater?
- Why do we think we can ever make a vaccine for sars-cov-2 given we've never successfully made one for any other coronavirus?
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| Can mosquitos spread COVID-19? Posted: 09 Apr 2020 06:15 PM PDT |
| Posted: 10 Apr 2020 06:39 AM PDT I've been reading all about the effort for antibody testing and learned that there are different types of antibodies such as IgM, IgG. What are the different types? What can they tell us? Do you need a certain level of each antibody to correlate to a 95% immunity against the next infection? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 09 Apr 2020 04:36 PM PDT |
| What is the lifespan of an antibody? Posted: 10 Apr 2020 01:40 AM PDT My questions are:
I understand people can get tested for antibodies and so I want to know if those are antibodies left behind from old plasma cells or from memory cells. Thank you in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| Why are the first 2 leaves on seedlings a different shape to all the rest? Posted: 10 Apr 2020 01:30 AM PDT |
| How do Virologist decide the genetic code of a virus, like the new Coronavirus? Posted: 10 Apr 2020 06:55 AM PDT |
| Could there be Earth-like planets the size of the sun? Posted: 10 Apr 2020 02:32 AM PDT |
| Do organisms like bacteria or tardigrades sleep? Or something equivalent to sleep? Posted: 10 Apr 2020 05:47 AM PDT Im not sure how to think about this. I always associated sleep with having a brain and some degree of consciousness, but thinking of an organism that never shuts down and always works sounds, well tiring i guess [link] [comments]  |
| How did the early hominids leave Africa? Posted: 10 Apr 2020 05:18 AM PDT This may be an extremely stupid question, but based off of the "Out of Africa model" how did the early hominids leave Africa? Whether the early humans could actually swim or not, surely they would die of exhaustion from trying to swim extreme distances to reach other continents? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Apr 2020 02:42 AM PDT I was trying to find information on the flu and the common cold to compare to the corona virus to see how bad they are compared to each other, but I couldn't find any reliable info for the mortality rate of the common cold. I figure it might just be lumped in with the flu season, but I wanted separate numbers and the CDC website says that they're caused by separate viruses. I've read that there are 3 types of influenza viruses that any person can become infected with per season and that there are many types of viruses that can cause them. The symptoms said that the cold doesn't normally have pneumonia as a symptom but I thought that was weird because most cases of pneumonia I've heard about did revolve around the cold. The only real difference I could see was the initial onset, which makes the onset of the cold more comparable to Covid-19, even if the symptoms are more comparable to the severity of the flu. Am I missing something? I'm not very knowledgeable about viruses, other than what I just wrote. [link] [comments]  |
| Can cats spread the COVID-19 to humans? Posted: 09 Apr 2020 10:27 PM PDT |
| Posted: 09 Apr 2020 11:27 PM PDT While we are busy sheltering in place and social distancing to slow the spread of Covid19, what effect is this having on other less contagious viruses. Are we likely to reduce some of the less contagious ones to near extinction while working to slow Covid19? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 09 Apr 2020 09:43 AM PDT |
| What is happening to the chemistry of a biscuit when it is going stale? Posted: 09 Apr 2020 09:26 PM PDT What is happening to the chemistry of a biscuit when it is going stale? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 09 Apr 2020 05:29 PM PDT |
| I'm interested in learning more about viral phylogenetics Posted: 09 Apr 2020 09:46 AM PDT What do we know about the large scale phylogeny of viruses? How old do we think various virus families are? What about the particular strains infecting humans? I've seen dates putting the origin of many of them in the past few hundreds or thousands of years, which is pretty crazy compared to the hundred thousand year timespans I'm used to for animal species. Also, do we know anything about the relationships between virus families? I know they can be grouped based on how they produce mRNA, but is it thought that these are monophyletic groups? How does this mesh with morphology and what kind of organisms are infected? And do we know anything about relationships between different classifications of viruses? Do they even all share a common origin? I'm sure there aren't conclusive answers for all of these questions, it can't be easy to figure out given the small amounts of genes to work with and the rapid mutation rates in viruses, but I'm interested in knowing more. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 09 Apr 2020 06:54 PM PDT |
| Does the "tyranny of the rocket equation" also apply to cars? Posted: 09 Apr 2020 01:54 PM PDT I recognize that there are large differences in terms of not having to constantly fight gravity. But if you attached larger and larger gas tanks to a car, would you still get diminishing returns in the way you do with rockets going to space? Is there a theoretical maximum to the distance you can go (or delta-v you can get?) from a car lugging around an absurd amount of gasoline? [link] [comments]  |
| How are vaccines made and why do they take such a long time to make? Posted: 09 Apr 2020 05:24 PM PDT |
| Why can’t we see clearly underwater? Posted: 09 Apr 2020 08:14 PM PDT |
| Posted: 09 Apr 2020 08:04 PM PDT The assumption is 18 months to get through trials, and people are talking about how to accelerate that, but isn't it likely that we'll never be successful let alone get it right on the first few tries? [link] [comments]  |
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