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Is there a reason your own "young" bone marrow couldn't put in storage for an immune system "restoration" when you are older?

Is there a reason your own "young" bone marrow couldn't put in storage for an immune system "restoration" when you are older?


Is there a reason your own "young" bone marrow couldn't put in storage for an immune system "restoration" when you are older?

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 07:48 AM PDT

It seems a reasonable hypothesis that a portion of the "problems" with an aging immune system come from aging stem cells in your bone marrow.

Obviously bone marrow extraction is very painful, but other than that hurdle, is there some reason I am not seeing that storing your own bone marrow on LN2 for later wouldn't be a way to restore the "youth" of your immune system later on in life?

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How single propeller Airplane are compensating the torque of the engine without spinning?

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 03:06 AM PDT

Is there such thing as having resistance and/or immunity to some diseases due to a specific blood type like AB or O positive?

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 06:45 AM PDT

AskScience AMA Series: We are Cosmologists, Experts on the Cosmic Microwave Background, The Cosmic Web, Dark Matter, Dark Energy and much more! Ask Us Anything!

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 04:00 AM PDT

We are a bunch of cosmology researchers from the Cosmology from Home 2022 conference. Ask us anything, from our daily research to the organization of a large, innovative and successful online conference!

We have some special experts on:

  • Inflation: The mind-bogglingly fast expansion of the Universe in a fraction of the first second. It turned tiny quantum fluctuation into the seeds for the galaxies and clusters we see today
  • The Cosmic Microwave Background: The radiation reaching us from a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang. It shows us how our universe was like, 13.8 billion years ago
  • Large-Scale Structure: Matter in the Universe forms a "cosmic web" with clusters, filaments and voids. The positions of galaxies in the sky shows imprints of the physics in the early universe
  • Dark Matter: Most matter in the universe seems to be "Dark Matter", i.e. not noticeable through any means except for its effect on light and other matter via gravity
  • Dark Energy: The unknown force causing the universe's expansion to accelerate today

And ask anything else you want to know!

Those of us answering your questions tonight will include

  • Shaun Hotchkiss: u/just_shaun large scale structure, fuzzy dark matter, compact objects in the early universe, inflation. Twitter: @just_shaun
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We'll start answering questions from 18:00 GMT/UTC on Friday (11pm PDT, 2pm EDT, 7pm BST, 8pm CEST) as well as live streaming our discussion of our answers via YouTube (also starting 18:00 UTC). Looking forward to your questions, ask us anything!

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Why/how do benzodiazepines and Z drugs/sleeping pills cause damage when used long term?

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 02:18 PM PDT

Is there any evidence that the strains of Covid prevalent in the US this summer tend to produce milder, shorter symptoms?

Posted: 14 Jul 2022 04:10 PM PDT

The reports of the illness I read in 2020 were typically along the lines of "holy shit that was awful!" and this summer, I get much more muted reports. Does the large-scale data collected by public health reflect my own personal/anecdotal impression? Also, is there data providing any sign that rates of mortality, and chronic, post-infection complications are reduced this summer?

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If you are infected by Covid and produce natural antibodies, will occasional exposure to Covid ensure regular production of antibodies?

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 01:41 PM PDT

Not sure if I worded the title correctly, but I was wondering how antibodies and resistance to Covid works. Take, for instance, my experience with the virus…

  • I was vaccinated in August 2021.
  • I was infected by Covid-19 in October 2021. No hospital visit or monoclonal treatment required.
  • Antibodies are said to be good for 90 days.
  • I chose not to get any boosters.
  • I have not been as "safe" as one could be, and have been in largely unmasked crowds on occasion. I have been to stores, out with friends, on vacation, etc. — always following Covid guidelines, but when given the option not to mask up, I have chosen not to.
  • Luckily, to my knowledge, I have not been infected by Covid-19 a second time.

If your body produces antibodies after infection, is it possible that continued exposure to Covid would ensure your body continues to produce antibodies?

Why would continual exposure to Covid not act similarly to a booster?

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What is the most exciting, realistic thing we can/are hoping to learn about the Universe through the James Webb telescope?

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 06:30 AM PDT

How are plants in greenhouses pollinated?

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 01:23 PM PDT

e.g. tomatoes, cucumbers. Do they bring in bee hives?

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How old are the pillars of creation?

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 10:57 AM PDT

I'm trying to find out more about celestial nebulas and ai read that the pillars of creation may already have been destroyed at their location 7000ly away, but how old are they?

It doesn't say anything about how long they've been swirling about for, neither on Wikipedia, nor on their NASA website. Is it something we can't say for sure?

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How do we know that a 3rd or 4th booster is helpful?

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 04:10 AM PDT

Do we have data to backup saying that a 4th dose will reduce hospitalization for someone under 50? Are the memory B and T cells no longer active? I am so confused by the messaging from the thought leaders because I thought that part of the immune system had long term memory

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How reliable is the DNA molecular clock?

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 06:42 AM PDT

I was reading the rise and reign of the mammals by Steve Brusatte, and in it he says we can calculate species divergence by looking at the DNA, and calculating how long that much difference from each other must have taken given DNAs rate of change.

How true is this? Is the rate of change the same in all animals/bacteria/etc.? Wouldn't the average age of reproduction of a species change this or no?

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What is the link between the way the brain converts visual perception into a language representation?

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 06:45 AM PDT

If a non-blind person sees a given familiar object (e.g., a dog on the street), they immediately "know" what that object is, even before the word describing the object (e.g., "dog") in a given language "appears" in consciousness.

Is it understood why this delay occurs and what the link between the brain's ability to perceive a given object, and then recall its lexical term is? In a broader sense - where and how does the link between vision and language occur in the brain?

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Why does COVID produce neurological symptoms and is it common for viruses?

Posted: 14 Jul 2022 11:23 PM PDT

I've wanted to ask this question since the pandemic began.

I don't remember hearing of many viruses that cause neurological systems (like loss of scent/taste) but I'm not a biochemist or virology expert.

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(Geology) Could the North and South American continents have remained separated?

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 05:48 AM PDT

North American and South American continents remained separated until 3 million years ago, when Panama formed, uniting the two continents. This then resulted in migration of animals from North America into South America, causing some of the South American as well as sea animals like Megalodon to die out. I was wondering if it was possible for the two continents to never unite, thus some of the strange ancient animals could have survived longer, possibly until modern day?

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Ok so I’m no scientist here and I hope this isn’t a stupid question but if the JWST can see so far deep into space then could we theoretically use it to map the surface of a lot of planets that are relatively close to us? I’m not saying we should I’m just saying is it possible?

Posted: 14 Jul 2022 10:14 PM PDT

Why do some mammals move their nose/nostrils when they breath?

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 11:47 AM PDT

As comparison, humans have no movement associated with the nose when they breath. How are animals/mammals different? Do they have muscle responsible for breathing other than the ones in their chest?

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How many stars exploded in order to create the Carina nebula?

Posted: 14 Jul 2022 06:14 PM PDT

I just saw this post: https://reddit.com/r/jameswebb/comments/vysbxk/in_the_highresolution_image_of_carina_the_size_of/

And it made me wonder. How many stars exploded to create this nebula? Or was it formed through some other process?

Given how large this is, it's hard for me to imagine that one star could create something like this?

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How can an electric sparker ionize air with such low voltage?

Posted: 14 Jul 2022 08:32 PM PDT

According to google the piezoelectric sparkers used for things like barbeque lighting have a voltage of around 800 volts, while air has a breakdown voltage of ~30k volts/cm, yet an electric sparker can still easily create an arc over half a centimeter of air. How is this possible?

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Did proto-bears have long tails?

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 03:24 AM PDT

Is there in the fossil record any bear ancestor with a long tail?

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Are there multiple independent measurement of the universe’s age?

Posted: 14 Jul 2022 03:26 PM PDT

I understand using redshift data to back out when the Big Bang occurred. Can we instead use Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data to determine the universe age, without using redshift data?

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How does drying pasta actually work scientifically?

Posted: 14 Jul 2022 06:29 PM PDT

So from my understanding, commercially dried pasta is dried using hot air and then cool air somehow to remove moisture. But my question is how this works, like on a chemical level. Like how does this not just bake the pasta? If I made pasta at home and tried to dry it, it wouldn't end up the same as the theoretically everlasting dry pasta that you get at the grocery store. What's actually happening to the pasta when it dries?

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