Jason Iles

5 Questions 38 Answers 0 Followers

Questions related from Jason Iles

Can Coronaviruses quorum sense?

Looking at the various CoV genomes, there are peptides/small proteins, aside from ORF1/2 on the genome, of which functions are unknown. These could circulate and in theory, once in abundance,...

26 March 2020 6,228 5 View

Does the target site of coronaviruses, being ACE II, have an antagonistic affect on renin/angiotensin pathway?

With COVID-19 having a higher mortality rate in cardiovascular comorbidities, is the resulting inhibition causing hypotension and in-turn hypovolemia?

16 March 2020 6,396 2 View

Could ketone supplementation during down syndrome pregnancies and in the neonate reduce Alzheimer-like neuropathy ?

Seeing as PFK,PRGS and SOD1, have a triplicated overload resulting in abherrant metabolism, could a ketone supplement be administered to down regulate the glycolytic pathways, reduce purine...

18 April 2014 2,948 1 View

Is the controversial use of duct tape on warts being studied at a molecular level?

A while back in my usual browse for weird and obscure research papers, I found a few papers talking about the use of duct tape in the treatment of warts. Although studies are unclear on this,...

04 December 2013 2,422 1 View

Could an Ion trap be used to elute masses into a triple quad with CID on the second quad allowing for a simultaneous top-down and bottom-up approach?

In theory, a complex sample could be separated to its constituents via elution from the Ion-Trap to a triple-quad, using the elution mass to set confinement ranges of the first quadrupole to...

09 October 2013 7,055 5 View