Jason Iles

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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 6,237 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 6,404 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 2,952 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 2,435 1 View

Is the increased cancer risk from smoking recreational drugs compared to cigarettes due to viral transmission by the habitual sharing of a "joint"?

Could this communal behavior being a vector for mucosal to mucosal transmission of HPV account for the increased risk? I am aware, compared to cigarette smoking cannabis users opt for a card...

04 December 2013 2,994 0 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 7,065 5 View

Has anyone had experience staining for TGM2 in mouse and/or human tissue?

I'm a BMS undergrad doing my dissertation preparation using a lecturer's work, which is mainly based on cell lines and I'm hoping to correlate tumor grading and TNM scores with the up or down...

21 November 2012 6,962 3 View