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Immigration Reform: A Second Chance for Undocumented Immigrant Health? | Amasian Science
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Immigration Reform: A Second Chance for Undocumented Immigrant Health? Read more at PLOS Blogs…. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. PLOS Public Health Perspectives. April 9, 2013. In In the News and Media. An “Acceptable” GMO? Blight-Resistant Potato: an “Acceptable” GMO? Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. Blog at WordPress.com.
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Dog-day Cicada | Amasian Science
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Found this little bugger on my tire this morning. A photo posted by Viet Le (@amasianv) on. Jul 30, 2013 at 8:47am PDT. This past spring, my girlfriend and I were in Virginia for a wedding when the 17-year Brood II cicadas. Were just starting to emerge. We were excited by the possibility of seeing some on our trip, but unfortunately, we didn’t spot any–I think we were too early? Still pretty cool looking nonetheless. July 31, 2013. June 8, 2015. In This is Science! One thought on “ Dog-day Cicada.
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Patents On Nature | Amasian Science
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By Youssef Rizk, Esq. Most people are aware that having a patent on an invention, process, or business method is a powerful benefit granted by the government that creates an exclusive right of use to the inventor. Translation: My idea, not yours! For obtaining a patent, which reflect the intent of the government to reward invention, but then to have the invention benefit the public interest are that:. 2 The invention must be new/novel (i.e. does not exist prior to the patent process);. Two recent decisio...
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The Story Behind a Potential Protein Treatment for Achondroplasia | Amasian Science
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The Story Behind a Potential Protein Treatment for Achondroplasia. Injecting sFGFR3 induces bone growth in wildtype mice (. And achondroplastic mice (. Ach/ ). Adapted from Fig. 2 (1). Earlier this week, several news outlets reported on a decoy protein as a potential treatment for achondroplasia or, more commonly, dwarfism, but made no mention of its origins. From the New York Times. Which provides instructions for making a protein involved in the development of bone and brain tissue. The FGFR3 protein i...
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Photo 51 | Amasian Science
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Today’s Google Doodle honors Rosalind Franklin. Whose work on X-ray diffraction was instrumental in determining the double helix structure of DNA. In the Doodle she’s staring at an X-ray diffraction image, known as Photo 51. That got the ball rolling. If you’d like to learn more about how the structure of DNA was determined, Nova has a great interactive dissection. Of Photo 51 that helps unravel the double helix structure from what looks like just an “X.”. July 25, 2013. May 5, 2015. Join 1,194 other fol...
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Emasculated by the Asian Glow | Amasian Science
https://amasianv.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/emasculated-by-the-asian-glow
Emasculated by the Asian Glow. Like for many young adults, college was an opportunity to “find” myself and, in particular, connect with my Asian American. In fact, one of the first college courses I enrolled in was Asian American Literature in which one of the prevailing themes in the class was how history and media depicted Asian men. 8220;Cut that Asian kid off.”. You’re already drunk? Oh right he’s Asian.”. By some arbitary and artificial measure of masculinity. Worse, though, was that inevitably ...
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It’s An Evolutionary Trap!!! | Amasian Science
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It’s An Evolutionary Trap! 8220;A Cuban Tree Frog tries to eat a Christmas light. Photo by James Snyder. National Geographic My Shot”. Over at The Loom. We have altered the environment in a vast number of ways, both small and large. And when animals try to read the cues from our human environment, they can get tricked. They can end up doing something that kills them, loses them the opportunity to reproduce, or simply wastes their time. Scientists call these situations evolutionary traps. June 11, 2013.
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Teflon for Teeth | Amasian Science
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I may come to regret the title of this post given the chemophobia. Surrounding fluoride and water fluoridation, but recent research. Suggests that fluoride may help prevent bacteria from causing cavities by creating a non-stick surface on teeth. Read more at PLOS Blogs. PLOS Public Health Perspectives. November 15, 2013. May 5, 2015. The Story Behind a Potential Protein Treatment for Achondroplasia. One thought on “ Teflon for Teeth. November 15, 2013 at 10:24 am. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Battle of the Sperms | Amasian Science
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Battle of the Sperms. Fruit fly) female is a battleground where sperm can jockey with each other for the honor of fertilizing her eggs. By sequentially mating females with males genetically-engineered to produce sperm that glow either green or red (see video below), scientists have been able to directly observe sperm from two different males competing in what resembles a fruit fly version of Tron. Surprisingly, it’s not always the fastest sperm that wins. Females, however, are thrifty and won’t blow thro...
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Alien Faces or Larval Butts? | Amasian Science
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Alien Faces or Larval Butts? Image credit: Chen Young. These might look like mugshots of unsavory patrons that frequent the Mos Eisley Cantina. But they’re actually the posterior ends of larvae. From 6 different species of crane flies. The dark circles that resemble eyes are in fact breathing holes called spiracles. Instead of lungs, insects have a respiratory system. Spiracles on the side of catepillar. Posterior spiracles of a crane fly larva. Adult crane flies are often confused for being male mosquit...
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