philosopher

former biostatistician in a previous life

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  • the fathers were HIV-positive, not the mothers.

    that (besides the obvious ethical concerns) was a big reason behind the backlash from the genome editing community. we had already known a much less invasive method for preventing HIV infection of the embryo in this case, by ‘washing’ the seminal fluid away from sperm (sperm cannot become infected with HIV, but the HIV particles would be in the fluid surrounding the sperm).




  • the attempt to mimic compression artifacts, they are just random lines throughout the edges of the image

    the computer ports, they are different every time

    the hand in the bottom left frame, it is drawn weirdly and bleeding into the other line

    the guy’s random eyebrow in the middle right frame

    and also, click on OP’s profile and look at the banner