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Originally Posted by JustMrJ  I've always wondered how they come up with some of the really crazy stuff... like Secrets of a Pregnant Woman's Urine... I mean... how does that happen? A lab worker is processing a pregnant woman's urine and suddenly thinks of it as having an Anti-HIV agent in it?  |
i would say that someone researching HIV infection/transmission came to the realisation that not all babies born to HIV positive mothers are in fact HIV positive at birth. that led them to believe that maybe something is secreted by either the foetus or the mothers body to prevent transmision. easiest place to check for that stuff is blood or urine (pregnant womens urine has all forms of wierd and wonderful hormones and stuff in it). if it was in the foetus there would be a good chance that the kidneys would deal with it before it could build up in concentration before it rose to elevated levels in the mothers blood, so they checked the urine?
just a guess at the process there.
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Originally Posted by wewannabebad2 And why aren't dogs and cats supposed to get along?  |
they aren't. i'd better wake my malamute up and tell her to stop cuddling the cat...
she's 8, the cats 1, so they didn't grow up together... who knows.
the things that make me go hmmm at 4:30 aren't as light hearted. mainly "where am i going to be next year" "will i ever get my thesis finished" and "dammit i have a flight to catch in 2 hours why can't i sleep"