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Post #Awe0eQl42wvHCP3ETA by [email protected] |
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Why’d they call it the “Pacific” ocean anyway? |
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Post #Awf27l31yzsndXxlmC by [email protected] |
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@rmd1023 Hoo boy. |
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Post #Awf27ldBoYo3Rgse8W by [email protected] |
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@rmd1023 NOT NOW, RADIOACTIVE WASPS |
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Post #Awo46kt2hqDRiuuoym by [email protected] |
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I learned about a new *organ* recently!Not actually new, of course, they've… |
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Post #Awo46l0UGAAe60OlaC by [email protected] |
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(I learned of their existence because a mutual was having trouble with theirs b… |
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Post #Awo46l7Dr7YgQtY956 by [email protected] |
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Meibom is similar to, but chemically distinct from, sebum. It's oily, and s… |
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Post #Awo46lGRIqvmtTrVRo by [email protected] |
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Anyway, each sebaceous gland is a tiny flask-shaped structure that opens onto a… |
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Post #Awo46lNWsUbPFTBAUy by [email protected] |
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… the lymphatic vessels just have valves, so that the contraction and relaxat… |
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Post #Awo46lUcS8H1bSUpY8 by [email protected] |
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Each sweat gland is a tiny, coiled, unbranched tube, open at one end to one of … |
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Post #Awo46lbi1lwdxRoUbI by [email protected] |
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So a sweat gland cell is adding and removing salts and proteins and water until… |
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Post #Awo46liRcjKgIKxs6C by [email protected] |
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In your pancreatic beta cells, the vesicles are being filled with insulin. In t… |
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Post #Awo46lpXCN0IeKHX9M by [email protected] |
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In general, oily things aren't soluble in water, so you wouldn't make s… |
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Post #Awo46mL5J4F0EB2jKK by [email protected] |
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Adipocytes are specialized to do this and keep doing it and grow, making more c… |
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Post #Awo46mnRbcvTe8JNWy by [email protected] |
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The resulting mixture of mostly fat droplets plus a little bit of cytoplasm and… |
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Post #Awo46nIHkxb1Bmk0bQ by [email protected] |
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And so it turns out meibom is made exactly the same way. It just has a differen… |
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Post #Awocf3ZN9CaFxEF6H2 by [email protected] |
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@NanoRaptor Ask for what you want! Maybe you can't have it, but maybe you c… |
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Post #AwphNQNYIXCaPe5MEC by [email protected] |
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@MCDuncanLab @afewbugs @quixoticgeek I was present for a centrifuge failure onc… |
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Post #Aws5qD4DekuMjzDmCG by [email protected] |
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@dramypsyd Fuckin' brains, man. Who do they think they are? |
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Post #AwyG3hTU4uBxIoryls by [email protected] |
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@Nonya_Bidniss I did a pretty careful skim of the Nature paper and it looks leg… |
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Post #Ax2jqY3uu3TFN4qJyi by [email protected] |
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I've been talking about the lithium paper a lot and last night my husband s… |
