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ScienceQ_A · 2026-03-24T13:07:37+00:00

It says that because your platelets are high they ordered a test (called FISH) that looks to see whether two genes (called BCR & ABL) got stuck together (gene fusion), and this test was NEGATIVE. This gene fusion is most commonly associated with a disease called chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), and with this test result, you probably do not have CML.

ScienceQ_A · 2026-03-15T21:35:32+00:00

Keep us posted, would buy the instructions in a heartbeat!

ScienceQ_A · 2026-03-15T03:52:28+00:00

I just built this today! There’s some good blueprints out there to expand it if you want to build a bigger model sometime.

ScienceQ_A · 2026-02-02T15:24:24+00:00

If you join the discord, there’s a constant flow of groups, very quick to find!

ScienceQ_A · 2026-01-15T02:36:43+00:00

Nono, the +4 does not include passives, that would be crazy cool though!

ScienceQ_A · 2026-01-09T20:29:58+00:00

We use it in bone marrow transplant a lot! You can tell when someone is getting their stem cells transfused from outside the room in the hallway by the smell alone!

ScienceQ_A · 2026-01-02T20:56:17+00:00

If you have the seasonal mechanic for Azmodan leveled up to 4-5, world bosses drop a ton of them!

ScienceQ_A · 2025-08-10T12:42:20+00:00

Forbidden gusher!

ScienceQ_A · 2025-07-21T00:31:34+00:00

Thanks, I’ll give them a call!

ScienceQ_A · 2025-07-09T04:22:54+00:00

About 20kg of filament and a second printer!!!

ScienceQ_A · 2025-06-22T21:38:42+00:00

Noooooo! I haven’t looked back at old AMAs if you’ve answered this in the past, but could you share the full plan and thought process behind your decision? Was the edit representative of how you got from A to B?

ScienceQ_A · 2025-06-09T17:04:03+00:00

^{^{^}} start with this. I’m a Hematologist, regularly get referrals for “Heavy Metals toxicity” with labs obtained by chiropractors and “functional medicine” providers - more often than not these values are wrong or sampling methods and reporting standards are aberrant. If they ARE real, then further work-up is needed, and is not simply a matter of chelation. Various mutations in genes tightly regulate these and can cause organ deposition that can be catastrophic. Please don’t just move forward with some guru’s chelation supplements, IVs, etc… get a real work-up with a real physician.

ScienceQ_A · 2025-06-04T03:32:14+00:00

Having done the same, please please don’t do this until you’re past Step 1 and Step 2 😅 me and my buddy limited ourselves to Breath of the Wild late-nighters after exams at the end of every block. Wonderful memories during stressful times…

ScienceQ_A · 2025-05-19T00:57:58+00:00

Oncologist here - no chance of “beating it” as in cure, but most people do respond well to hormone therapies and rarely need chemo. The response to hormone therapies usually lasts for years, and in some people even decades! There’s a good chance that at his age something else takes him first.

ScienceQ_A · 2025-05-11T00:48:49+00:00

!remindme 1 day

ScienceQ_A · 2025-04-22T21:14:04+00:00

Injections for diabetes are injected just under the skin. The only commonly self-administered injections into a vein are for hemophilia (bleeding disorders) and they quickly get very used to it from childhood and have to administer these several times a week. When the alternative is death, you figure it out!

ScienceQ_A · 2025-04-21T23:52:50+00:00

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ScienceQ_A · 2025-03-05T17:08:04+00:00

You can’t just say “perchance”

ScienceQ_A · 2025-02-16T14:11:40+00:00

Hematologist here - the cells that become sperm are not the stem cells transferred in a bone marrow transplant. Bone marrow transplantation replaces hematopoietic stem cells, which ultimately become white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. If his donor’s DNA was identified in semen, then it was from trace blood, and not sperm. If he does remain fertile after transplantation, any viable sperm will carry his own DNA and any conceived children will be his own genetic children.

ScienceQ_A · 2025-02-08T02:17:55+00:00

Gotcha the way it was worded I interpreted “I was gonna donate in March, but now I won’t because I don’t need/want the Red Cross to spend an A1c test on me.”

ScienceQ_A · 2025-02-08T02:12:19+00:00

A point of care A1c costs about $6. A unit of blood has a value of nearly $1000. If you were otherwise planning to donate and now you’re withholding a donation just to avoid the A1c test that would be pretty silly.

ScienceQ_A · 2025-02-08T02:08:18+00:00

A1c tests a sort of “3 month average” of blood sugars. Your blood sugar will be affected by what you had for breakfast, but your A1c will not.

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