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A reply to "Open letter ...to the WHO on the issue of vaccine safety" Infographic source:  Leon Farrant In a Dutch Facebook group titled "To Vaccinate: Yes or No?" (literal translation), someone posted this "Open letter to the WHO on the issue of vaccine safety", asking us what questions we think should have priority. A number of members were quick to comment that it's unclear what questions she means, calling it a bit of a word salad. I'd like to take you through the open letter, posted by the European Forum for Vaccine Vigilance (EFVV)  here . I'll try to provide both scientific papers  and human-readable  articles  as sources and mark them as such. My response to the letter By sharing science and joining efforts towards better health, your organisation has improved the lives of millions of people, and we are grateful for this. Providing better nutrition, clean water, improved hygiene, and access to medical care, mortality an

How are your devices kept cool? Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips  hugging a custom built computer featuring a water cooling system. In our pockets, we carry around devices that used to take the space of an entire room.  They stay cool, or sufficiently cool to operate, even though we are processing massive amounts of data at our fingertips. But how? How are computers, laptops, tablets and phones kept cool? I found myself discussing this with a friend and decided it would make for an interesting blog post. Over the last year, I've developed PC building as a hobby and cooling is one of the more interesting topics. Cooling a computer touches on a lot of topics in physics, particularly fluid flow and thermodynamics. I'll discuss the cooling of computers first, then move through laptops, tablets and phones. Rather than explain the principles first, I'd like to discuss them in passing. Computer cooling: Heat sinks and Fans AMD delivers these  Wraith Co

Introduction In my first post , I discussed what DNA is and how it relates to phenotypical (outward) change through the central dogma of molecular biology. In the second post I discussed the techniques of genetic engineering, including the novel and prodigal technique called Crispr/Cas9. In the third and previous post we discussed current uses of the technology. In this post, we will look at the future uses of the technology.  I can not promise to cover all possible future and research purposes, simply because it is too extensive. I will discuss three good examples, one for research, one for medicine and one for food. We will leave the issue of designer babies for the next part in the series. Wide-field Fluorescence microscopy Frames from two-colour video microscopy showing single-molecules diffusing and binding  inside E-coli. [Royal Society Publishing] Wide-field fluorescence microscopy is a research technique to investigate how things work on a microscopic sca