Vicente Mendoza Reyes

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Why is the human right lung bigger and has 3 lobes, compared to the left lung, which is smaller and has only 2 lobes?

What evolutionary pressure(s) selected for this asymmetrical configuration and size of the two human lungs? Is this lung asymmetry also present in lower mammals, such as dogs, cats and mice?

06 September 2018 4,341 2 View

Is there a fundamental structural difference between Mt. Kilauea, which is erupting now, and Mt. Pinatubo, which erupted in 1991?

Mt. Kilauea seems to just spew largely lava, which then spreads on to the surrounding land, while Mt. Pinatubo produced lots of volcanic ash or "lahar", which were ejected high up into the air...

27 May 2018 534 1 View

Has anybody applied Fourier transformation on stock market graphs?

If it can be resolved into simple sinusoids, it might be possible to predict stock market behavior, even if only with partial success. But I am sure that there is a straight line component with a...

09 May 2018 3,512 3 View

What are the top 10 (or less) most important topics or subjects in medical and health informatics?

Basically, I would like to know the core courses that a medical or health informatics major must take in order to be awarded the BS and MS degrees in the field. Thanks much!

04 May 2018 7,087 6 View

Is it possible that the so-called "global warming" is due to heat diffusing from the earth's interior to its surface, as the earth continues to cool?

We all know that the interior of the earth is composed of exceedingly hot molten iron, and that the tendency of heat is to diffuse from hot to cold. Humans cannot control the cooling of the earth,...

24 June 2017 5,370 16 View

Are certain sets of neuronal connections (in our "connectome") heritable from parent to child?

I want to know whether memories are somehow heritable, given the fact that our connectomes constitute our memories. Has there been any calculations comparing the connectomes of the biological...

22 May 2017 3,400 1 View

Has there been any mapping done between specific sets of neuronal connections (within the "connectome") and specific memories of individuals?

It has been theorized that the totality of the specific connections between neurons in our brains (the "connectome") constitute our memory, knowledge and personality. I want to find out if indeed...

22 May 2017 1,131 2 View

As university and college professors, are we grading the students' performance or their effort?

If effort is to be graded, how do we measure it objectively and fairly?

01 May 2017 611 12 View

Does anyone know if glycomic profiling has ever been used successfully to diagnose the early stages of any type of cancer?

If so, which type(s) of cancer? Thank you very much in advance.

24 April 2017 8,066 0 View

Has lipidomic profiling ever been used to diagnose the early stages of any type of cancer?

If so, which type(s) of cancer? Thank you in advance.

10 April 2017 1,212 0 View

Has the genetic process of speciation ever been modeled using the mathematical theory of bifurcation?

Speciation is the splitting of a single species into two species and qualifies as a bifurcation phenomenon. Has bifurcation theory ever been applied to speciation? If so, how? Any published...

01 April 2017 5,485 3 View

Does anyone know of any ongoing study involving synthesis of a protein made up entirely of D-amino acids?

If such a protein has in fact been synthesized, has it been shown to be crystallizable and amenable to x-ray crystallographic 3D structure determination?

18 March 2017 6,955 4 View

How far are we from true "personalized medicine"?

During the first few years of the 21st century, right after the completion of the human genome sequence, there was a lot of talk (and hype) about "personalized medicine" -- the tailoring of the...

12 February 2017 9,466 15 View

At present, how much "trust" do doctors place on OMICS profiling of patients suspected of cancer as an early detection (before metastasis) method?

I am not an MD, so I am not privy to what today's MDs (esp. oncologists) think about how effective OMICS profiling (transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic, lipidomic, glycomic profiling, etc.) is...

07 February 2017 8,645 1 View

Why are we limited to seeing, thinking & imagining in only 3-dimensions? Why are we unable to visualize 4-dimensional space (ignoring time) & higher?

Why are we unable to visualize higher dimensional space? Is there any special feature or structure in the visuo-spatial area of our brain that limits our perception of the world in only...

04 February 2017 7,930 4 View

How come mathematical biology has not taken off as a discipline, although it has been around for quite a while?

I gather that computer simulation is (presently) the only way to "solve" complex biological problems. Do you think a new branch of mathematics is yet to be discovered that can solve biological...

24 January 2017 860 1 View

Does anyone know how the transcriptomic profile of a patient with pancreatic cancer differs from that of a healthy (normal) person?

Pancreatic cancer is a worst type of cancer because it kills in a very short time, and there is currently no early detection method that I know where surgery can make a difference.

10 January 2017 2,179 3 View