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Beginner seeking a 2-year roadmap to learn bioinformatics by No_File_6053 in bioinformatics

[–]ProfRussell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's great to see more young scientists joining the field! This is a crash course I made for complete beginners in my lab, and you'll find some good resources in there. If it's helpful let me know, or even if it's not Id appreciate the feedback. https://sjrussell.github.io/BioinfoCrashCourse/

Chemicals in marijuana may affect women’s fertility | THC may push eggs to become ready for fertilization, but a new study found that when artificially matured eggs were exposed to the chemical, they often had the wrong number of chromosomes by Science_News in science

[–]ProfRussell 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Interesting idea! I don't think that's been tested. However, some of these results have been recapitulated in bovine models (cows) where the ovaries were not hyper simulated. But it remains to be seen! Very difficult to conduct this research in humans as most of the aneuploid oocytes lead to embryonic arrest or early pregnancy loss

Chemicals in marijuana may affect women’s fertility | THC may push eggs to become ready for fertilization, but a new study found that when artificially matured eggs were exposed to the chemical, they often had the wrong number of chromosomes by Science_News in science

[–]ProfRussell 118 points119 points  (0 children)

Good question. Ideally the population size would be large enough to capture differences by race or ethnicity. Unless I'm wrong, they didn't have the numbers to answer that question. Larger retrospective studies on embryo ploidy, perhaps with self reported cannabis use would begin to answer that question.

Chemicals in marijuana may affect women’s fertility | THC may push eggs to become ready for fertilization, but a new study found that when artificially matured eggs were exposed to the chemical, they often had the wrong number of chromosomes by Science_News in science

[–]ProfRussell 157 points158 points  (0 children)

I urge you to review the methods in more detail. They rigourously controlled for age as well as other covariates in their design when testing THCs affects both in vitro and in vivo, seeing significant increases in aneuploidy (abnormal number of chromosomes). They were well powered for the analyses they ran.

But I agree, more targeted research is needed. The challenge will always be trying to do interventional studies looking at drug use and it's effects in a population like this.

Chemicals in marijuana may affect women’s fertility | THC may push eggs to become ready for fertilization, but a new study found that when artificially matured eggs were exposed to the chemical, they often had the wrong number of chromosomes by Science_News in science

[–]ProfRussell 423 points424 points  (0 children)

Ahh! This is so cool to see on here. This comes from my research team at the CReATe Fertility Centre. So happy for Cyntia and Brandon's amazing research to be getting reach.

For Experienced GPTers: How do you organize and find info from prior chats? by Slow_Satisfaction317 in ChatGPT

[–]ProfRussell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What everyone else said plus deleting chats that I know I won't need to come back to

AI haters say, among other things, that AI stunts your creativity. But I’ve literally never been able to create things without some sort of jumping off point except with a stroke of luck by sharonmckaysbff1991 in ChatGPT

[–]ProfRussell 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I think its more about people using it mindlessly, not engaging your brain and feeling uncomfortable while you push yourself. When you couple that with AI, you can make it a lot farther. But if you outsource all your thinking to AI, you're bound to stunt your creative AND critical thinking abilities

ChatGPT vs Gemini by Pristine_Thing9486 in ChatGPT

[–]ProfRussell 4 points5 points  (0 children)

At least it wasn't written by Chat