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Can beauty sleep fight the common cold?

Getting a full night’s sleep could be more important than simply preventing groggy, sluggish mornings. According to a 2015 study conducted by researchers at the University of California San Francisco, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center,…

Biotech Basics: Accuracy and Precision in Measurements (and a #SciArt Project!)

  What is the difference between accuracy and precision? Accuracy describes how close a measurement is to the true value of a given quantity.  Precision describes the reproducibility of the measurement. Accordingly, measurements can be categorized as follows: Neither accurate…