My favorite is in one of the scenes where Gromit is reading the paper, one of the headlines is "Dog reads paper!". I don't remember which short its in, though.
Mules are by definition the product of a male donkey and a female horse. You can make the opposite cross (pony stallion + female donkey) but then its called a "jennet".
There are some birds that make fertile hybrids all the time - I think the finches do this a lot. But they are probably closely related species anyway. For what its worth.
They're not really pro-small government - what they want to is to shrink the parts of govt that they don't like, like social security, welfare, etc. They don't consider what those agencies/programs do to be what the government is supposed to be doing.
I have to say that the odor of rotting marine mammals is far worse than any fish odor. Really ripe dophin is gag-inducing from half a mile away. I had a summer internship where among other things I had to catalogue dead stuff that washed on shore...dolphins included.
Re:Okay so they live forever. Why can't other cell
on
The Immortal Cell
·
· Score: 1
Ok. I just checked with the ATCC (www.atcc.org)and HeLa cells are selling for $167.00
(http://phage.atcc.org/cgi-bin/searchengine/longvi ew.cgi?view=ce,28375,CCL-2&text=hela).
As for some of your other questions, other cancer cells *are* immortal and will replicate endlessly. Also, regular cells can be immortalized by fusing them with cancer cells (=hybridoma) or by infecting them with a virus.
Regular cells are *not* immortal. The experiment you mention has been discredited for years because someone proved that the "nutrient broth" that the guy was using to feed his chicken cells contained chicken cells, so he was continually reseeding his culture dishes with new cells. Apparently the problem was a faulty centrifuge in his lab.
This study spawned all kinds of quackery by claiming (in part) that if you just led a clean enough lifestyle that you would could live forever, which is bullshit. Normal cells isolated from tissue are not immortal- they can usually only be passaged a certain number of times before they stop growing.
these eucaryotes would scream Poison!, yet you ingest this poison voluntarily
Fyi, Bacteria are prokaryotes. Animals (and humans) are eukaryotes.
Re:Once bitten, twice shy.
on
Golden Rice
·
· Score: 1
"What if genetically engineered food was as buggy as most commercial software?"
ARGH! If only you knew what the FDA was like! The FDA has to approve GM food for any use (in case you didn't know)and they are pretty hard ass. At least I know they are for drugs, I work in biotech and have seen the fear the FDA instills in managers. An FDA audit is NOT pretty. Any GM food has to be checked to make sure its at least as safe as the regular non-GM food and for allergens. If only computer applications were subject to the same scrutiny- we would be in a less crash-free world.
Slashdot Mirror
My favorite is in one of the scenes where Gromit is reading the paper, one of the headlines is "Dog reads paper!". I don't remember which short its in, though.
Mules are by definition the product of a male donkey and a female horse. You can make the opposite cross (pony stallion + female donkey) but then its called a "jennet".
There are some birds that make fertile hybrids all the time - I think the finches do this a lot. But they are probably closely related species anyway. For what its worth.
They're not really pro-small government - what they want to is to shrink the parts of govt that they don't like, like social security, welfare, etc. They don't consider what those agencies/programs do to be what the government is supposed to be doing.
I have to say that the odor of rotting marine mammals is far worse than any fish odor. Really ripe dophin is gag-inducing from half a mile away. I had a summer internship where among other things I had to catalogue dead stuff that washed on shore...dolphins included.
As for some of your other questions, other cancer cells *are* immortal and will replicate endlessly. Also, regular cells can be immortalized by fusing them with cancer cells (=hybridoma) or by infecting them with a virus.
Regular cells are *not* immortal. The experiment you mention has been discredited for years because someone proved that the "nutrient broth" that the guy was using to feed his chicken cells contained chicken cells, so he was continually reseeding his culture dishes with new cells. Apparently the problem was a faulty centrifuge in his lab.
This study spawned all kinds of quackery by claiming (in part) that if you just led a clean enough lifestyle that you would could live forever, which is bullshit. Normal cells isolated from tissue are not immortal- they can usually only be passaged a certain number of times before they stop growing.
Fyi, Bacteria are prokaryotes. Animals (and humans) are eukaryotes.
"What if genetically engineered food was as buggy as most commercial software?"
ARGH! If only you knew what the FDA was like! The FDA has to approve GM food for any use (in case you didn't know)and they are pretty hard ass. At least I know they are for drugs, I work in biotech and have seen the fear the FDA instills in managers. An FDA audit is NOT pretty. Any GM food has to be checked to make sure its at least as safe as the regular non-GM food and for allergens. If only computer applications were subject to the same scrutiny- we would be in a less crash-free world.