Nils R. posted an article on The Sciphu Weblog - Dec 7, 2009, 8:29 am
Image via Wikipedia BIOpinionated is two years old today (7/12 2009). Will keep going !
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Nils R. posted an article on The Sciphu Weblog - Dec 2, 2009, 9:01 am
Image by psd via Flickr In our lab we’re setting up the PCA3-test designed to aid prostate cancer diagnostics. The test is representative of many emerging diagnostic tests in that it is a) a su...
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Nils R. posted an article on The Sciphu Weblog - Nov 26, 2009, 3:32 am
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words….The man who could call a spade...
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Nils R. posted an article on The Sciphu Weblog - Nov 20, 2009, 5:30 am
... seasonal flu is not expected to be common. This infection had very mild symptoms in my family. Two of us then had more severe flu symptoms a month later, but this infection was not confirmed by ...
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Nils R. posted an article on The Sciphu Weblog - Nov 10, 2009, 8:58 am
Image via Wikipedia Previous post in series: The Testosterone project. Recap: Project Testosterone is my main project aimed at alleviating  mature age growing pains. Plan is as follows: Test my ...
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Nils R. posted an article on The Sciphu Weblog - Nov 5, 2009, 8:38 am
The last H+ magazine is full of articles telling us that we’ll soon rid ourselves of various body parts, mood swings and even the physical acts of sexual relations. I am still a transhumanist, b...
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Nils R. posted an article on The Sciphu Weblog - Oct 31, 2009, 8:19 am
Image via Wikipedia On a late Friday afternoon Quality control department:  “You missed the last two samples in this dilutions series”. Me:  “Yeah, that’s kind of why we u...
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Nils R. posted an article on The Sciphu Weblog - Oct 27, 2009, 6:30 am
Image by Harm Rhebergen via Flickr Well, while the title alluringly suggests so, this was not a conference for reporting spicy hot ground-breaking news like twelfth generation ultra-high through(the ...
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Nils R. posted an article on The Sciphu Weblog - Oct 20, 2009, 3:25 pm
Image by Gideon Burton via Flickr I am all for open access, my own initiative being sciphu.com – still in early stages and with several unresolved issues. Issues that may prove to be altogether...
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Nils R. posted an article on The Sciphu Weblog - Oct 8, 2009, 2:42 am
An excellent excellent opinion piece in Nature by Bruce T. Lahn & Lanny Ebenstein. Since I cannot write as elegantly as they have, I’ll just urge anyone reading this to go and read the whole ...
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Nils R. posted an article on Sciphu - Sep 25, 2009, 8:50 am
Sirs, In my opinion, there are a lot of fascinating papers on diabetes, but not useful at all in GPs day-to- day practice, since primary prevention ON VERY LARGE SCALE is far better than therapy, ...
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Nils R. posted an article on The Sciphu Weblog - Sep 20, 2009, 10:26 am
Image by Getty Images via Daylife First: State that most of our genome is junk. Second: When more and more promoters, enhancers, repressors and other regulatory elements are discovered, claim that t...
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Nils R. posted an article on The Sciphu Weblog - Sep 18, 2009, 7:49 am
Image via Wikipedia Despite some ridiculous legal obstacles in this country, we are finally able to set up some proper genetic tests. I need to update myself on these tests – and what better wa...
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Nils R. posted an article on The Sciphu Weblog - Sep 13, 2009, 3:51 pm
Image via Wikipedia From Watchmen (introduction to chapter VII / ending of chapter VI): Is it possible, I wonder, to study a bird so closely, to observe and catalogue its perculiarities in such minu...
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Nils R. posted an article on The Sciphu Weblog - Sep 10, 2009, 9:11 am
Image via Wikipedia First off, I have to admit that my scientific knowledge is a bit sketchy on this one. Nevertheless – my impression is that there is a (scientific ?) consensus out there sayi...
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Nils R. posted an article on The Sciphu Weblog - Aug 28, 2009, 9:50 am
I am putting together a list of things lost in translation between science and the public. The full list is compiled here. Following a couple of discussions on friendfeed on exercise and dieting, I&#...
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Nils R. posted an article on The Sciphu Weblog - Aug 13, 2009, 8:01 am
Image by Getty Images via Daylife The last couple of months I have lost about 8 kg Previously, I had unsuccessfully been trying to lose weight by exercising more (Previous posts on this subject:...
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Nils R. posted an article on Sciphu - Nov 3, 2008, 6:42 am
Sergio Stagnaro MD Via Erasmo Piaggio 23/8,Riva Trigoso (Genoa) Europe. Founder of Quantum Biophysical Semeiotics Who's Who in the World (and America) since 1996 to 2009. Ph 0039-0185-42315, Cell...
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Nils R. posted an article on Sciphu - May 28, 2008, 6:09 am
Author: Nils Reinton Furst Medical Laboratory, Søren Bullsv. 25, N-1051 Oslo, Norway (nreinton_at_furst.no) Pharmacogenetics is the analysis of specific genetic markers informing you of how efficien...
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Nils R. posted an article on Sciphu - May 27, 2008, 8:43 am
Authors: Nils Reinton and Amir Moghaddam Furst Medical Laboratory, Søren Bullsv. 25, N-1051 Oslo, Norway (nreinton_at_furst.no) In 2006, Swedish researchers noticed a peculiar trend in the number of...
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Nils R. posted an article on Sciphu - Mar 26, 2008, 3:59 am
Authors: Amir Moghaddam and Nils Reinton Furst Medical Laboratory, Søren Bullsv. 25, N-1051 Oslo, Norway (amoghaddam_at_furst.no). Electrophoretic separation of proteins in non-denaturing and dena...
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