But is that how it works? are electrodes applied to the skin and only the cells in the immediate vicinity are affected? So how deep does the field penetrate the body? If the answer is not very deep then you couldn't treat stuff like cervical cancer or colon cancer, because you can't stick electrodes (comfortably?) onto those body parts.
If its a big field, however, that you slide the person into (like an MRI) with a deep-penetrating field, it'd make more sense.
If every baby shark is an exact copy of its mother, the population will eventually be just handfuls of clones from the original 3 (or however many there were).
Are the behaviour patterns the same, then? If you've got Shark A, who's a girl... and she likes to eat a certain type of fish, and swim to this area, and splash around in a particular way; will her baby, Shark A' also prefer the same type of fish, the same swimming area, and the same motions?
Imagine if that happened to humans... you had Jane, who always wore khakis and a red shirt, who ordered the #3 latte from Starbucks, and walked in the park. Would the future Jane Primes also wear the same stuff, eat the same stuff, and go the same places? (of course this is entirely hypothetical; most people aren't creatures of habit (to that extreme))
Indeed. I read that and was thinking "maybe I will finally understand what my boyfriend is rambling on about all the time"
Code is sexy though. Just wish I knew how to do it.
I didn't have any problem with the articles either, but it took a bit more concentration to string the words together. Then again, I go to an engineering school where I'm learning a little about my friends' majors by ranting about classes. When they say "layman" do they mean...someone who has an inkling of knowledge about the article in question? or just random guy off the street?
I use wikipedia as a quick source of information; often it is the most comprehensive because there is no basic chemical "dictionary" so to speak that's searchable and fast. Everyone's favorite strong acid is easy to look up... I get the necessary information for the experiment (molar mass, boiling point, etc). If you want to know about the mechanisms its involved in, you read the article. If you really want to know more about it, you go look up a scholarly article on Ebsco or JSTOR something. If you're confused about any part of the article, you click around until you've answered your own questions....?
I don't think the iron can get oxidized... if you look at a
heme molecule, its complexed with all kinds of ligands
I think we just studied this in class, but not in depth...so I don't know if oxygen could come snap off the ligands and rust it up.
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So would it be possible to make a surrounding field? I don't remember much physics... you can't have a field that goes in a loop?
But is that how it works? are electrodes applied to the skin and only the cells in the immediate vicinity are affected? So how deep does the field penetrate the body? If the answer is not very deep then you couldn't treat stuff like cervical cancer or colon cancer, because you can't stick electrodes (comfortably?) onto those body parts. If its a big field, however, that you slide the person into (like an MRI) with a deep-penetrating field, it'd make more sense.
If every baby shark is an exact copy of its mother, the population will eventually be just handfuls of clones from the original 3 (or however many there were).
Are the behaviour patterns the same, then? If you've got Shark A, who's a girl... and she likes to eat a certain type of fish, and swim to this area, and splash around in a particular way; will her baby, Shark A' also prefer the same type of fish, the same swimming area, and the same motions?
Imagine if that happened to humans... you had Jane, who always wore khakis and a red shirt, who ordered the #3 latte from Starbucks, and walked in the park. Would the future Jane Primes also wear the same stuff, eat the same stuff, and go the same places?
(of course this is entirely hypothetical; most people aren't creatures of habit (to that extreme))
Indeed. I read that and was thinking "maybe I will finally understand what my boyfriend is rambling on about all the time" Code is sexy though. Just wish I knew how to do it.
Since it's a hydrogel, why doesn't the gel suck up the water in the blood and thus dehydrate the person?
I use wikipedia as a quick source of information; often it is the most comprehensive because there is no basic chemical "dictionary" so to speak that's searchable and fast. Everyone's favorite strong acid is easy to look up... I get the necessary information for the experiment (molar mass, boiling point, etc). If you want to know about the mechanisms its involved in, you read the article. If you really want to know more about it, you go look up a scholarly article on Ebsco or JSTOR something. If you're confused about any part of the article, you click around until you've answered your own questions....?
I don't think the iron can get oxidized... if you look at a heme molecule, its complexed with all kinds of ligands I think we just studied this in class, but not in depth...so I don't know if oxygen could come snap off the ligands and rust it up.