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Cloning Factory in China Has Familiar Partner: Hwang Woo-Suk

December 2, 2014 Paul Knoepfler 1

Cloning of animals is becoming a big, global business. It turns out that this reproductive cloning of animals goes well beyond making duplicates of pets for sentimental customers at $100,000 a copy. Cloning of livestock by agribusinesses is becoming fairly […]

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ben goldacre@bengoldacre·

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This is https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/11/08/fake-rhino-horn-invented-oxford-university-flood-market-take/

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Paul Knoepfler@pknoepfler·

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Surprising heart finding. Surgery for Blocked Arteries Is Often Unwarranted.
Drug therapy alone may save lives as effectively as bypass or stenting procedures, a large federal study showed. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/16/health/heart-disease-stents-bypass.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

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Eric Topol@EricTopol·

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Just when you thought you were overcoming percentages, and "normalizing" dog-human years, they've come up with a new calculation involving a natural logarithm :-)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/our-problem-with-percentages-11573743724?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1 by @DrEugeniaCheng
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/here-s-better-way-convert-dog-years-human-years-scientists-say @NewsfromScience
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/829192v1?ct=

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