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Why can't white blood cells (B-cells) be stirred-up in vitro with a virus and the antibodies harvested? Why must the antibody response happen in the body?

Why can't white blood cells (B-cells) be stirred-up in vitro with a virus and the antibodies harvested? Why must the antibody response happen in the body?


Why can't white blood cells (B-cells) be stirred-up in vitro with a virus and the antibodies harvested? Why must the antibody response happen in the body?

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 01:47 AM PDT

Does your blood type influence how sick will you get with the common cold?

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 05:21 AM PDT

I have read an article stating that people with A blood type tend (on average) get more sick with COVID19 than people with O type blood.

I wonder if the same applies to other types of coronaviruses. Do I also tend to have a worse time with common cold if I have A type blood?

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How do companies get the viruses for vaccines?

Posted: 10 Jun 2020 06:40 PM PDT

Like do they farm it?

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Is it possible to have PTSD for something that never happened ? Like when our brain creates false memories ?

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 07:52 AM PDT

Is it possible for a digital file to be corrupted by excessive copying? If so, how many times must a file be copied before the copies become unreadable?

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 08:00 AM PDT

When people forge metal and parts flake off, what's actually happening to the metal?

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 06:04 AM PDT

Are the flakes impurities? Or is it lost material? And why is it coming off in flakes?

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Why can't we throw lightweight things very far away?

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 06:30 AM PDT

I never understood why I can throw an apple very far away but not a piece of cotton. It's lighter so I should be able to make it reach higher speeds with less force. But if something is too heavy I can't throw it far away either. Is there a soft spot for weight?

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Why do lung transplant patients have a poorer long-term outlook than other organ recipients? Do we know what causes this?

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 08:35 AM PDT

How do people die from hypothermia? Why can't your body stand to low temperatures?

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 07:17 AM PDT

How do birds spot food? Specifically how do they find seeds that have been scattered or in a bird feeder? [Zoology]

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 08:16 AM PDT

Has scavenging for seeds from bird feeders or spotting free seeds on the ground been conditioned in to the avian population or is there some natural behavior this stems from?

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Do any other animals with physiology that permits apply pressure to wounds instinctually as we do?

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 08:14 AM PDT

I just got done watching a guy crowbar himself in the noggin and it struck me (I went there) that people have a natural and rapid reaction to apply pressure to a wound which got me thinking whether this is a uniquely human trait.

I realise I may have incorrectly assumed that this reaction is instinctual rather than learned.

I suppose it's probably limited to primates in general if it exists at all in other species. I just found it interesting because it's an extremely specific adaptation. Unlike having a reaction to intense heat to withdraw a limb, which any animal can do, it requires having the physiology and dexterity before the adaptation becomes advantageous.

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Why do African American men seem to with prostate cancer experience a faster transition to metastasis then other races?

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 08:13 AM PDT

How to get a Lagrangian when there are constraint forces that do work?

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 08:00 AM PDT

Say you have a spring-mass system that has a rest length of 0 and is confined to a rod that rotates at a fixed angular frequency w. The constraint force that keeps it rotating at the fixed frequency does work when the radius changes, yet Newton's law for the radial component of motion gives the same equation as the usual T-V Lagrangian written in polar coordinates (assuming phi-dot is constant). But, I thought this Lagrangian only works when constraint forces don't do work - what's going on here?

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Why are orbits of planets stable over billions of years? How do they not go into the sun or slowly drift away?

Posted: 10 Jun 2020 05:47 PM PDT

As I understand it, the early Earth was struck by a Mars sized object creating the Moon. I feel like that's close enough in size to at least change Earth's orbit by some appreciable degree depending on how fast the impact. How does Earth stay in stable orbit after that?

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Why are some boobs saggy and some boobs perky, assuming they are the same size?

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 07:42 AM PDT

Is there a system that controls where the blood flows in the brain?

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 07:04 AM PDT

Hi all,

Is there a system in the brain that controls how much blood each zone gets in the brain. Let's say, your sitting down, listening and talking, does your muscle control system gets less blood than the language processing part?

If so what system controls this?

Thanks

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Multiple ponds and lakes have been around for 100s if not 1000s of years, sediment goes into them every rainfall, how can they stay there so long and not fill in?

Posted: 10 Jun 2020 05:32 PM PDT

How loud would a nuclear explosion be?

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 12:26 AM PDT

Question in the title. What would you actually hear? Also, would you perceive the shockwave as sound? Would it deafen you at a certain distance?

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How do I know which restriction enzyme to use?

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 06:04 AM PDT

https://ibb.co/D5cyYKc

I attached an image^^

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Do (urban) magpies have a special call to warn about predators?

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 02:17 AM PDT

Context: I spend a lot of time on my balcony so I am constantly paying attention to the environment around me. There are lots of magpies that I usually notice only visually until yesterday when I heard a song that I couldn't recognize.

I looked under the tree they were sitting and there was a cat (common known urban predator for birds) and 3-4 magpies were having the same loud call (that sounded rather alarming) and were following the cat (flying from tree to tree while issuing the same call).

As soon as the cat disappeared and ran behind bushes (probably out of sight for them) the call stopped. I normally don't see cats roaming free on the street so I am pretty sure the magpies were trying to warn their fellas about it.

Can anyone tell me more about this subject or am I just getting crazy for listening too much to birds and their songs? 😅

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Do both granules and lysosomes fuse to the phagosome during phagocytosis?

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 05:32 AM PDT

Why do orange skins dry out so quickly after peeling them?

Posted: 10 Jun 2020 11:44 PM PDT

I was just noticing the oranges I've had for about a week or two - at the time I'm peeling them they're fleshy and soft, but after being peeled they'll dry out completely within a day or so.

I'm sure there's some moisture transfer going on but it's not very apparent to me what the mechanism is. Is the skin of the orange attached to the fruit juices in some way? Or are there living cells in the orange rind that die once peeled?

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Why is it when we get food and drinks from a restaurant, we already get really full when drinking the drink first?

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 06:32 AM PDT

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