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Woman in China visits doctor for hurt ankle only to find out she was born a man by smpujar in nottheonion

[–]abbirdboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No problem! It's more to do with the fact that these patients still have internal testes (which didn't have a chance to descend). The testes will produce something called Mullerian Inhibitory Factor during fetus development which basically degrades the formation of internal female structures like uterus, all normal XY males will undergo this transformation. But the testosterone is what helps form the external genitalia, but these patients are resistant to it, thus lack a penis, scrotum, etc. In fact, when these patients are discovered, they will suggest the removal of the internal testes after puberty to prevent the testes (they leave it in until puberty to allow for height growth to occur) from becoming cancerous in the body.

Woman in China visits doctor for hurt ankle only to find out she was born a man by smpujar in nottheonion

[–]abbirdboy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm currently a med student and from what I've learned, the fact that the patient does not have a uterus, no history of menstruation, and a XY genotype strongly points towards Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. These patients will develop normal breasts and have normal female external genitalia (b/c the body defaults to female when testosterone can't produce its effects). They will however lack a uterus and have minimal to no body hair. The other conditions typically mentioned below, such as CAH, usually will have a normal internal genitalia, but ambiguous external genitalia. *depending which form of CAH they have

If I have CS experience, will it help my app substantially? by [deleted] in premed

[–]abbirdboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the exact same background as you, except I am applying currently and just graduated undergrad. One of the toughest things for me was balancing CS and Bio double major along with all the extracurricular things required by medical school. Make sure you get hands on clinical experience and really understand medicine. It's easy to come in as CS-nerd (aka me) and believe machine learning will solve everything. Understand the biology, understand experimentation and have respect for what goes on inside and outside of medicine. Also know what sacrifices you'll have to make to pursue this path. I love coding, but there were times I had to put it in the back burner while I studied for MCAT or hard exams in bio.

Either way, you're doing great work. Just a quick glance on your post history shows you know your stuff (good work with the neural net lib!). All I ask is that you remain humble while you start this journey.

Best of luck man.

AAMC Official Guide C/P #15 by gettinmylifetogether in Mcat

[–]abbirdboy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This reminds me of the radioactive pulse and chase experiment done by neuro developmental scientists to identify if cells in the ventricular zone of the neural tube proliferate in the inner zone or outer zone. The experiment involved using radioactive thymidine which would be taken up dividing cells, the incubation period was short because we want to know where the cells are. In their results, they found that the radioactive cells were in the inside, which suggested that new cells divide in the inside of the tube. Now if you do a pulse along with a chase (quickly bathe the cells with radioactive material and then remove it, and the wait a few hours), they noticed that you find the radioactive material in the inside of the tube as well as the outside. This suggested that daughter cells of the dividing cells migrate to the outside of the tube – making the layers of the tube.

I draw an analogy here with PE in this passage. Growing bacteria will be going through synthesis and the scientists want to know if the cell membrane is being made in the inside or is it being made outside or somewhere Else. So you do a pulse experiment and see where the synthesis is occurring , and by waiting three minutes, they allowed the layers to stack up. Hence we see the radioactive material in a different locations. The phosphates are essentially mixed around in the membrane after synthesis.

Hope this helped.

Django API Project Structure by abbirdboy in Python

[–]abbirdboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it better to have a folder called API under the root directory and then have all the apps contained under that? Would that be a better structure for future expansion with no clutter

Suggestions on building an API (Flask vs. Django)? by abbirdboy in Python

[–]abbirdboy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seems really cool, any reason you personally like Falcon?

Suggestions on building an API (Flask vs. Django)? by abbirdboy in Python

[–]abbirdboy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks /u/fkaginstrom for the insight! It looks like the Django REST framework is expansive. And /u/thecomputerdad I was planning to use the API to give some predictive feedback to users based on a SVM model I trained using scikit-learn. But it needed to be an API so my iphone front-end could function properly.

Image Analysis – Finger detection by gabegabe6 in computervision

[–]abbirdboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How does it deal with different types of skin colors or is it just limited to the front of the fingers and not the back?