Would a taller person have higher chances of a developping cancer, because they would have more cells and therefore more cell divisions that could go wrong ?

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• Would a taller person have higher chances of a developping cancer, because they would have more cells and therefore more cell divisions that could go wrong ?
• Are Polar, Grizzly and Brown bears the same species?
• Why do you have to wait longer in between jabs if you are mixing and matching vaccines?
• Is ischemic colitis and transmural infraction are same thing?
• What happens to the fructan in garlic when burnt?
• Can a Language Model learn multiple languages or it has to be retrained from scratch for each language?
• Are we really learning that prior recovery from COVID infection has a sort of 'stacking' effect with vaccination?
• What determines the rate of each flu type each flu season?

Would a taller person have higher chances of a developping cancer, because they would have more cells and therefore more cell divisions that could go wrong ? Posted: 02 May 2021 03:06 AM PDT submitted by /u/gastonprout [link] [comments]

Are Polar, Grizzly and Brown bears the same species? Posted: 02 May 2021 03:18 AM PDT I am under the conception that two animals are of the same species if they can produce fertile offspring. Tiger + Lion = Liger which is infertile so they are distinct. However I've read online that Grizzly bears can mate with Polar bears to produce fertile offspring - and some reports of Brown bears and Grizzly bears mixing also. I can understand how quickly a bear might adapt lighter fur and a heavier frame over an evolutionary timescale. Does that mean that they are the same species just with different physical traits, similar to humans? submitted by /u/thenerj47 [link] [comments]

Why do you have to wait longer in between jabs if you are mixing and matching vaccines? Posted: 01 May 2021 09:45 PM PDT The FDA recommends that, if one has a severe allergic reaction to your first jab, you can get a second of a different type but they recommend waiting four weeks instead of three. French regulatory agencies recommend waiting 12 weeks in between jabs if you are mixing and matching. Is there an immunological reason why we should wait longer in between jabs if we are mixing and matching vaccines? What is the purpose of waiting between jabs in the first place? submitted by /u/Wgeorgian69 [link] [comments]

Is ischemic colitis and transmural infraction are same thing? Posted: 01 May 2021 11:36 AM PDT Just tried google. But no help. submitted by /u/kalan_96 [link] [comments]

What happens to the fructan in garlic when burnt? Posted: 01 May 2021 07:48 AM PDT Hi all, hope this is okay to post here... sorry for such a random question but I'll give context at the end if anyone's interested! I'm wondering what happens to fructan when it is burnt, specifically the fructan in garlic. Would it change at all and in what way? Context: I'm doing a medical diet currently and one of the things I'm testing to see if I am intolerant to is fructan. To do this I am eating garlic to see if I get symptoms. The first time I ate garlic I didn't get any symptoms and the second time I ate garlic I got very bad symptoms. The first time I burnt the garlic (not awfully but fairly burnt) and I'm wondering if that somehow altered the fructan, so that's why I didn't get any symptoms. Could this be possible? If anyone can help at all that would be very much appreciated! submitted by /u/everyonedeservesmayo [link] [comments]

Can a Language Model learn multiple languages or it has to be retrained from scratch for each language? Posted: 01 May 2021 07:51 AM PDT Can a Language Model, maybe like GPT3, learn and be able to use multiple languages, and if so, can it use " knowledge" adquired on one language and aply it on another, or is the knowledge more closely related to the language itself? submitted by /u/TransparentBlack [link] [comments]

Are we really learning that prior recovery from COVID infection has a sort of 'stacking' effect with vaccination? Posted: 01 May 2021 10:38 AM PDT A UK study published this week indicates that prior COVID-19 infection seems to increase the immune response from vaccination. I don't know how to square this with previous reports that post-infection immunity wanes over time, particularly when the study seems to include quite a few people who got infected at the start of the pandemic a year ago. I don't see any indication in this study that suggests "time since infection" alters the booster effect between past recovery and current vaccination, am I overlooking something? Second, while I know they work a bit differently, is it likely that the effect indicated in the study for the Pfizer vaccine is also likely to occur with AstraZeneca and Janssen? Thanks in advance! https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-one-dose-of-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-still-leaves-patients-vulnerable/ Researchers in Britain have found that one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine provides insufficient protection against new variants of the COVID-19 virus and urged public-health officials to be vigilant about ensuring that people receive a second injection. "We're looking rather vulnerable to variants after one dose," said Danny Altmann, a professor of immunology at Imperial College London who co-authored the research. Dr. Altmann said the findings were especially relevant to countries such as Britain, where most people have had only one dose of a vaccine so far. More than 34.2 million people in the United Kingdom have had one shot and 14.5 million have had two. "For the situation of countries like the U.K., we're saying hang on a minute, those people are doing well at the moment, and the U.K. has done well, but watch out and keep your eye on the ball for the variants because [people] are far more vulnerable than you might have expected to the variant strains," he told a media briefing on Friday. In a study released Friday, the scientists tracked 731 British health care workers for several months last year. About half of those in the study group had contracted COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic in March, 2020, while the remainder had not been infected. The study found that those who'd previously had a mild or even asymptomatic infection had a far higher immune response after one dose of the Pfizer vaccine than those who hadn't been ill. The immune response was so strong, the study said, that it also offered good protection against the variants first detected in Britain and South Africa. The study "is basically showing that if you've had prior COVID-19, and then you've had a single dose vaccine, you are really in a different league in terms of your immune response," said Rosemary Boyton, a professor of immunology and respiratory medicine at Imperial College who co-authored the study. "It's almost like the infection has acted as a prime and the first dose has acted as a boost." However, the group of volunteers who had not been infected showed a much weaker immune response to the variants after one dose. The study showed that their level of neutralizing antibodies was 11- to 25-fold lower against the B. 1.1.7 variant compared with the original version of the virus, "resulting in the majority of individuals falling below the protective threshold." The research team said their findings also likely apply to other variants in circulation, such as the P.1, first detected and Brazil, and the B.1.617 and B.1.618 variants, first associated with India. submitted by /u/pfcthrowawayfeb2020 [link] [comments]

What determines the rate of each flu type each flu season? Posted: 01 May 2021 08:50 AM PDT Im researching the history of confirmed flu cases each flu season for a specific region, and have found some things that I am interested in learning more about. Firstly, the amount of confirmed flu cases has generally greatly increased each flu season over the past several years (up to end of 2019), is this because more and more people are actually getting the flu, or more because of increased testing, or something else? Also, the flu cases are categorized as either Influenza type A or type B. Up until recently, it seemed like the two types were fairly consistent, so if the total flu count increased one season to the next, both types A and B increased, and vice versa. But the last few seasons, it looks something like Type A will see a massive increase while B sees a large decrease and then the next season the opposite occurs and the types fluctuate in count change. Is there something that determines the rate of each flu type each season? Or is it just by random chance that the consistency no longer applied these past few seasons? Is there different antiviral medications for the different types of flu, or are they treated the same way? Hope this is the right subreddit for this, as I'm really just looking for more insight and to learn more to explain why I'm seeing what I am while going through the data. Thanks! submitted by /u/misalo [link] [comments]

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