Phil Watson

Phil F Watson
Something of an immunologist/antibody engineer
Now devoting my autumn years to machining and tinkering with more solid materials.

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@web3annie NHS robots may order a series of investigations but a human will apply a cost/benefit analysis and you will end waiting until the problem is frankly evident. At the same time the majority of the future health burden won't be complex rocket science it will be calorific input.

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@QDrop2450 @sciencegirl Until recently I wasn't even aware that some people take PPIs daily.

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'Bob Says Opportunity Knocks' auditions in Glasgow.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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@One_Way_Home If you have a shutter fitted to your eyes

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@21percentgroup In the aftermath and rebuilding remember to outsource HR and give them NDAs. Never let them get feet under the table.

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@MorEdge_Insight Not being a rocket scientist I thought at this stage a failure would be say - a drop in telemetry or some sensor packing in. Rocket engine engineering has been around for some time now. Are we really still at the stage where a new design may simply explode?

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@timeshighered Phew

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@mattwridley Perhaps Nature or careless experimentation killed 20 million people. Oddly enough I think the more important issue is how many biologists have the hubris to carry gain of function experiments. With total faith in their containment protocols, and believing the goals are worth it.

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@AbbottEddi5270

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@ruthefordml There is a kind of symmetry at work as medics tend to imagine they could excel at everyone else's profession. Save perhaps lawyers, the only individuals that cause them a certain degree of apprehension.

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@MetamateDaz What you seek is genetic modification that will enable you to make chlorophyll

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@niftymitch @PorterPj85856 @DrNeilStone Fluorescence would really be simply a modification.

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@niftymitch @PorterPj85856 @DrNeilStone The definition of "well contained" should factor in the risk of human failure. If a failure can lead to 20 million deaths worldwide then perhaps express confidence by building BSL-4 units on islands over a buried thermonuclear device.

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@niftymitch @PorterPj85856 @DrNeilStone In general, gain of function studies are carried out to enhance the virulence of a pathogen in order to understand the mechanisms behind the evolution of natural pathogens and how they come to be a health problem. A lot of debate among scientists about the ethics and hazards.

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@BestofDem_szn Mature onset mumps?

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@jonathanbfine It was interesting in the 80s before the proliferation of journals and the advent of the all-powerful metric...

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@aroog1278 A Victorian stent?

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@MumofFatCassie Reasonable arguments - though only if we selectively ignore his appointment of Mandelson - which seems to suggest he is either seriously compromised or madly deluded. Certainly tone deaf.

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@NeilFlochMD @Jmortonmd @PSchauerMD @Ali_Aminian_MD @JaimePonceMD @IfsoSecretariat @ASMBS @ASMBSIH A refreshing absence of Powerpoint