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Schild regression

Alright kiddo, today we're going to learn about something called "schild regression."

So, let's say you have a toy robot that you can turn on and off using a remote control. Now, imagine you have different amounts of batteries that you can put into the remote control to make the robot do different things.

Schild regression is a way of understanding how the different amounts of batteries affect the robot's behavior. Scientists use this type of analysis to study how drugs or chemicals affect the activity of certain receptors in our bodies.

They measure how strong the drug is at binding to the receptor, and how much of a response the receptor has to the drug. And just like how more batteries in the remote control can make the robot do more things, more of the drug can make the receptor do different things too.

So, scientists use Schild regression to help understand how these drugs and receptors work together, and to see if they can find new ways to help people who are sick. Pretty cool, huh?
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