Oh please shut up with your petty partisan politics. Election rigging has a long history in the US, and neither major party has shown much interest in reforming the system.
That would be so cool. Eliminating heriditary breast cancer just by vaccinating.
If you can identify the problem gene, e.g. BRCA1, then potentially yes, you can alter the germline.
But as it is dominant, it would be so much easier to select an egg or embryo without the gene.
I thought gene editing in mammals could only be done on embryos.
Welcome to the future. It is new, and so far, human trials have only been done "in vitro", with cells taken from body, treated, and replaced. And then only on the terminally ill (afaik). But in theory, something like CRISPR could one day be injected and edit your cells by the billion. Finding a delivery mechanism that gets the gene editing tool to a large number of you fat cells (mitochondria in this case) safely, makes it a much greater challenge than editing an embryo.
This technology could lead to a treatment for human obesity. Now I have your attention slashdot!?
Newborn humans use this gene/protein to generate heat from fat. CRISPR/Cas9 could potentially be used to restore this ability to obese adults, allowing them to burn more fat keeping warm without shivering. (not just new embryos)
NK isn't going to nuke California, because if they do they will cease to exist. Not as a regime or as a nation, but as an object.
You should look at history. NK was bombed back to the stone-age in '50-'53 war, but was able to fight on and rebuild with China's help.
I can't imagine any modern US retaliation being worse than that, even with strategic nuclear attacks on missile sites. You can't do nuclear carpet bombing without going to war with China again.
People who have Pickup Trucks and don't use them for real work, are the ones who do this type of stuff. If the truck is essential for your livelihood,
Not sure about there, but in Australia there is a good rule of thumb: a real working 4WD/SUV/pickup/utility is painted white. Wankers who just want size-compensation have fancy metallic paint-jobs, and never go near mud or bushes that might scratch it.
What if Kimmie J. U. hacks into bunches of them and we all fall down one day?
We already have that risk with fly-by-wire planes. Proper design can mitigate. You don't allow any remotely loaded instruction to tell a plane to fly into a mountain. The regular control interface is higher-level than direct control of thrust and flaps.
Perhaps it's like nuclear power: statistically safer over the long-run than most alternatives, but the results of problems are high profile and have an emotional twist to them.
It is already like nuclear. Safer per km than car travel, but people fear it more because worst case is very bad. But auto-pilot will not make the worst case any worse.
Are you deliberately trying to sound stupid by inappropriate use of the work "fucking", you shit-eating cunt-faced Trump-voter?
Its called context. Few have died from solar, wind, waves, or nuclear energy. Twice nothing is nothing.
Large-scale fatalities have occurred from coal and hydroelectric.
Look at numbers per GW.hr, and don't forget the effects of coal smog, acid rain, and global warming.
Except the Herald, Stuff, and Scoop. And those were the first three I tried. RNZ does too.
Your first link is a reprint of a Washington Post story. Second one starts with a middle-endian date format - must be a foreigner. Third one is a press-release by an illiterate wanker with numerous spelling/punctuation/grammar errors including the humourous "bold-face liar". He prints lies in a heavy font?
20% will support that one party unless a particular line had been crossed.
A lot of us thought that line was crossed with Pussygate. We were wrong. Russia collusion? Water off a ducks back. It seems Trump was right when he said he could 'shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters'.
Elections are normally won, by that 10% of moderates.
That works if everybody votes, e.g. in Australia where not voting can get you a $20 fine. In the US, politicians also win by telling their base that the opponent is evil and will destroy the country if they don't go and vote.
So 'edit' is the euphemism we're using for genetic engineering now?
No. It refers to a specific technique of genetic engineering. What part of "clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats" don't you understand?
Why does Vermont, with no gun controls, have a lower murder rate?
Actually, for a rural white state, the murder rate in Vermont is high. It is comparable to some of the more violent European countries such as France, which are plagued with urban decay, ethic violence and terrorism.
But the obvious answer is that states with more gun crime introduce stronger gun control. Is it not obvious? You have the causation backwards.
It will be much harder to fill a bucket with pure protons.
Given their mutual repulsion, I'd say getting even a picogram of pure protons into a sealed bucket will be quite a challenge. Even Dr. Egon Spengler never achieved it.
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p.s. sorry quantaman, of course that wasn't directed at you, but the AC you replied to.
Oh please shut up with your petty partisan politics.
Election rigging has a long history in the US, and neither major party has shown much interest in reforming the system.
Humans obviously already have that gene, which is clearly written in the summary.
Yes, its not so simple in humans as in pigs. The gene/protein is active in newborns, not but adults.
That would be so cool. Eliminating heriditary breast cancer just by vaccinating.
If you can identify the problem gene, e.g. BRCA1, then potentially yes, you can alter the germline.
But as it is dominant, it would be so much easier to select an egg or embryo without the gene.
I thought gene editing in mammals could only be done on embryos.
Welcome to the future. It is new, and so far, human trials have only been done "in vitro", with cells taken from body, treated, and replaced. And then only on the terminally ill (afaik).
But in theory, something like CRISPR could one day be injected and edit your cells by the billion. Finding a delivery mechanism that gets the gene editing tool to a large number of you fat cells (mitochondria in this case) safely, makes it a much greater challenge than editing an embryo.
This technology could lead to a treatment for human obesity. Now I have your attention slashdot!?
Newborn humans use this gene/protein to generate heat from fat.
CRISPR/Cas9 could potentially be used to restore this ability to obese adults, allowing them to burn more fat keeping warm without shivering. (not just new embryos)
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NK isn't going to nuke California, because if they do they will cease to exist. Not as a regime or as a nation, but as an object.
You should look at history. NK was bombed back to the stone-age in '50-'53 war, but was able to fight on and rebuild with China's help.
I can't imagine any modern US retaliation being worse than that, even with strategic nuclear attacks on missile sites. You can't do nuclear carpet bombing without going to war with China again.
No, this is not a grammar error.
Grammar is a noun, so you made a grammatical error there.
I might spend some time and use multiply-redundant potentiometers with noise-immune readout circuits to give absolute positions
Or you could just fix it in software. Easier to both design and test that way.
Using consumer hardware makes a whole lot more sense than using Microsoft Windows.
1) conservatives would be afraid (and rightfully so) to show Trump bumper stickers in the Google parking lot for fear of violating the group think.
I really find it hard to imagine that intelligent, educated conservatives at Google would be Trump supporters.
I would wager that there were far more "McCain" and "Romney" stickers in previous elections than Trump ones recently.
Trump is anti-science and anti-intellect.
People who have Pickup Trucks and don't use them for real work, are the ones who do this type of stuff. If the truck is essential for your livelihood,
Not sure about there, but in Australia there is a good rule of thumb: a real working 4WD/SUV/pickup/utility is painted white.
Wankers who just want size-compensation have fancy metallic paint-jobs, and never go near mud or bushes that might scratch it.
What if Kimmie J. U. hacks into bunches of them and we all fall down one day?
We already have that risk with fly-by-wire planes. Proper design can mitigate. You don't allow any remotely loaded instruction to tell a plane to fly into a mountain.
The regular control interface is higher-level than direct control of thrust and flaps.
Perhaps it's like nuclear power: statistically safer over the long-run than most alternatives, but the results of problems are high profile and have an emotional twist to them.
It is already like nuclear. Safer per km than car travel, but people fear it more because worst case is very bad.
But auto-pilot will not make the worst case any worse.
Are you deliberately trying to sound stupid by inappropriate use of the work "fucking", you shit-eating cunt-faced Trump-voter?
Its called context. Few have died from solar, wind, waves, or nuclear energy. Twice nothing is nothing.
Large-scale fatalities have occurred from coal and hydroelectric.
Look at numbers per GW.hr, and don't forget the effects of coal smog, acid rain, and global warming.
How many have died from solar, wind, or wave?
15,000 killed in one day by wave when the Fukushima plant failed. Zero by radiation.
Funny how some people forget that perspective.
Oh, it's perfectly cromulent in North American English. I just never heard it from a Kiwi.
Except the Herald, Stuff, and Scoop. And those were the first three I tried. RNZ does too.
Your first link is a reprint of a Washington Post story. Second one starts with a middle-endian date format - must be a foreigner.
Third one is a press-release by an illiterate wanker with numerous spelling/punctuation/grammar errors including the humourous "bold-face liar". He prints lies in a heavy font?
What report?
No report in the Herald or other NZ publication would use the word "surveilled". They still speak English there.
20% will support that one party unless a particular line had been crossed.
A lot of us thought that line was crossed with Pussygate. We were wrong. Russia collusion? Water off a ducks back. It seems Trump was right when he said he could 'shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters'.
Elections are normally won, by that 10% of moderates.
That works if everybody votes, e.g. in Australia where not voting can get you a $20 fine.
In the US, politicians also win by telling their base that the opponent is evil and will destroy the country if they don't go and vote.
The US is a collection of (supposedly) sovereign states.
I think that idea died in 1861.
In the U.S., for presidents, 38% is a terrible approval rating.
Terrible?! After what Trump has said and done, it is fuckin' amazing!!
Anybody else would be lucky to hit double digits in the circumstances.
Would not be much use since they shut down all the 2G networks here.
I see AT&T has closed theirs in the US, so you may need to upgrade soon.
So 'edit' is the euphemism we're using for genetic engineering now?
No. It refers to a specific technique of genetic engineering.
What part of "clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats" don't you understand?
Why does Vermont, with no gun controls, have a lower murder rate?
Actually, for a rural white state, the murder rate in Vermont is high. It is comparable to some of the more violent European countries such as France, which are plagued with urban decay, ethic violence and terrorism.
But the obvious answer is that states with more gun crime introduce stronger gun control. Is it not obvious? You have the causation backwards.
You know they should. Following Artful Aardvark we need an adjective and noun beginning with 'B' .
Do you think a "Mc" prefix is completely out of the question?
It will be much harder to fill a bucket with pure protons.
Given their mutual repulsion, I'd say getting even a picogram of pure protons into a sealed bucket will be quite a challenge.
Even Dr. Egon Spengler never achieved it.