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The Speed of Time in Health and Disease
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My father was an economist who came up with a formula for pricing derivatives called the Black-Scholes option-pricing model. He was interested
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I have been thinking a lot about how we characterize the side effects of drugs. Truth be told, that is a topic
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What Is Thiamine to Energy Metabolism?
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What Is Energy?Energy is an invisible force. The aggregate of energy in any physical system is a constant quantity, transformable in countless
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Over the last several years, stories of young women, many of them athletes (here, here), suffering from dangerous and sometimes deadly blood
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Unraveling Symptoms and Syndromes
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What Is a Syndrome?A syndrome is the name given to a collection of symptoms and physical signs that have been observed in
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Fitness and survival are by nature estimates of past performance. George Wald Reconsidering Genetic Mutations: What is Baseline?Each person possesses a set
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