Spyke
LwLreply
lemmy.world

For me, default sorting is top day, so if there have been no posts in the last 24h, it will show "no posts". You should see posts if you change to a different sorting (e.g. new).

It's not very active though

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JohnDClayreply
sh.itjust.works

Nothing is showing up even for top of all time. Maybe they're marked NSFW for some reason?

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Hm, some are, but I also see some posts that aren't. Maybe some sort of federation issue then. Except I just noticed you're on the same instance as the community... now I'm just confused.

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lemmy.world

I think the whole community is marked nsfw, so that might prevent you from seeing the posts

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Get ready for this study to disappear due to not confirming the "vaccines cause autism" hoax.

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lemm.ee

Turns out that researchers get to name the proteins they discover and that the venn diagram of biochem researchers and nerds is just a circle.

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bob_lemonreply
feddit.org

This one is actually a big of a tragic coincidence. A lot of genes are first discovered in a certain type of fruit fly (drosophilia melanogaster), which are excellent for this because of the low amount of gene redundancy and high reproduction rate.

There's a series of genes that cause the fruit fly to have little spikes in their body, making them look a bit like hedgehogs. One of those was jokingly called sonic.

The problem is that this gene is present in humans, too, and has since been linked to severe brain deformities. As you can imagine, telling people that their child has a severe brain defect because of the sonic hedgehog gene is kind of problematic (Which is why it's now commonly only called SHH).

There seem to be newer naming conventions that should prevent this kind of issue in the future.

There's an episode of Let's Learn Everything about this fruit fly: Episode 78

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idk I think it's pretty pog personally but I can see the potential pain put upon parents presented with this perplexing appellation

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