(since the signals used to transmit the secret message are the same as the ones transmitting the public message, and they do not have permission for destroying the public message) Did you just call a phone call a "public message"? Man, you are even more cynic about privacy than I am.
The best way to remove a tick is to catch it firmly with a forceps close to the skin and simply pull it out. Suffocating it using vaseline or some sticky stuff results in the dying tick vomiting the half digested contents of its gut back into the wound, increasing the risk of infection.
Is there an analogy with this whole Renzor vs. RIAA business? Perhaps that a slowly dying parasitic organization will be even more dangerous?
When I saw the image, the first thing I imagined was this: something hits the surface, then lots of wormlike creatures start crawling out of the remnants. Yeah, too many B-movies...
With Hunger, Global Warming and catostrophic ozone loss affecting the lives of billions, dont you think the scientests/Zombie Cockroaches have something better to do? Hmmm? Oh, I love comments like this. "You are studying cockroaches, hm? Interesting. But MILLIONS are starving, are you going to feed them with cockroaches? Forget about your work, do something, HUMAN LIVES are on stake"...and so on.
You know, there is this thing called fundamental research. You never know when data like this will be useful.
In China, the family of someone sentenced to death has to pay for the execution. Adding some buerocratic fuss for reincarnation was a logical step forward.
try to think of a color that you have never seen. Impossible huh? I am colorblind, you insensitive clod!
No I'm not. But that's not my point. I'm completely incapable of imagining a color I've never seen, but I'm pretty sure it can be defined by its wawelength, as any other color can. And the same goes for any future inventions. I have no idea what they will be like, but I'm sure I can put tags on most of them like energy source, transportation system, or image enhancer. But I would not go as far as calling every 20'th century invention as a refinement of a 19'th century technology (or stone age), as the parent of my post did. And that was the reason for my somewhat aggressive reaction.
Is this guy a troll or genuinely crazy? What is nanotechnology? Just a fine screwdriver? A interstellar vessel just a better locomotive? A teleport device just some exotic phone booth? Thinking in such terms, we hardly made any progress since the stone age. Screaming "UGA!" from one bush to another? - Fast and reliable communication! Running from one cave to another? - Advanced transportation! Using fire for cooking? - Just another power source.
This idea is based on a widely disseminated misconception, that T-cells don't reproduce when out of bone marrow. They do, and happily so, after being activated by other cells, antigens, cytokines and a bunch of other means. Your method has been tried, in a way. A patient's blood was essentially flushed with healthy blood from donors, so his whole blood was exchanged. It did no good in the long term, because the HIV infects also macrophages in other tissues than blood. The next wave of the infection came from those macrophages.
Maybe a genetically-engineered virus designed to attack various HIV strains?
No. That's not how a virus works. A virus, outside of a living cell is a inert bunch of proteins, nucleic acids and sometimes lipids. A "genetically-engineered" virus could only work if it would infect the same cell as the HIV. If two different viruses infect the same cell, a process called interference can occur. This can screw both of the virus types, but the cell is screwed as well. And to kill all of the HIV infected cells, we would need the engineered virus to be more infective as HIV. So essentialy we would end up killing HIV with some kind of uber-HIV. No good.
Ehm. Not a bad idea, but I don't want any 80' pop music encoded in my DNA. I'm sure it would end up with cancer.
As a more serious note, why bother with a DNA reader? Those things are slill prety large to fit into any ear. A biotech device/symbiont that transcribes the DNA stored information directly into a neural feed, connected to the auditory regions of the brain would be a nice solution.
I come to the movies 10-15 minutes late. At first it was because I am a chronical latecomer (is that a word?), but later I figured out that it is actualy convenient. You cut the shouting crap ads, the anti piracy propaganda and maybe 1-2 trailers. Well, I miss the trailers sometimes...
"Monoclonal antibodies are manufactured by implanting genetic sequences into the ovaries of live rodents, then extracting the resultant drugs which the rodent cells have produced."
No.
Monoclonal antibodies are produced by hybridoma cells. To get hybridomes, you immunize a mouse against your target antigen (in this case the human T-cell receptor). Then you extract the spleen cells from the mouse and fuse them with mouse lymphoma cells. After that you culture every single cell separately and test it for antibody production. Most of the fused cells will either die, or lose the ability to produce antibodies, but some of the clones (cell lines derived from a single cell) will produce your target antibody. This is why they are called "monoclonal".
This description is of course very simplified, production of monoclonal antibodies is a very complex process. Using a monoclonal antibody as a biological weapon would be very ineffective, indeed.
If conditions were right, that initial small pocket of bacteria or virii could multiply to cover the planet in a matter of years.
I do not disagree completely, but one word is definitely wrong in this sentence. Virii.
A virus is a parasitic lifeform, that "lives" only inside of a living cell. No cell - no life, no multiplication, no evolution and no spreadnig. Outside of a living cell a virus is an inactive lump of protein and nucleic acid.
Other tahn that, a virus is a potent driver of evolution by mixing up its host genome, possibly creating new genetic structures.
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So I should look at the obnoxious bullshit ads, because if I block them, some even more obnoxious bullshit ads will replace them?
I think it's difficult to find anything really "unique" in something as big and diverse as the universe. By definition.
The question today is not "Are you paranoid?" but "Are you paranoid enough?"
The best way to remove a tick is to catch it firmly with a forceps close to the skin and simply pull it out. Suffocating it using vaseline or some sticky stuff results in the dying tick vomiting the half digested contents of its gut back into the wound, increasing the risk of infection.
Is there an analogy with this whole Renzor vs. RIAA business? Perhaps that a slowly dying parasitic organization will be even more dangerous?
When I saw the image, the first thing I imagined was this: something hits the surface, then lots of wormlike creatures start crawling out of the remnants. Yeah, too many B-movies...
"You are studying cockroaches, hm? Interesting. But MILLIONS are starving, are you going to feed them with cockroaches? Forget about your work, do something, HUMAN LIVES are on stake"
You know, there is this thing called fundamental research. You never know when data like this will be useful.
Something like air hockey?
In China, the family of someone sentenced to death has to pay for the execution. Adding some buerocratic fuss for reincarnation was a logical step forward.
No I'm not. But that's not my point. I'm completely incapable of imagining a color I've never seen, but I'm pretty sure it can be defined by its wawelength, as any other color can. And the same goes for any future inventions. I have no idea what they will be like, but I'm sure I can put tags on most of them like energy source, transportation system, or image enhancer. But I would not go as far as calling every 20'th century invention as a refinement of a 19'th century technology (or stone age), as the parent of my post did. And that was the reason for my somewhat aggressive reaction.
Is this guy a troll or genuinely crazy?
What is nanotechnology? Just a fine screwdriver? A interstellar vessel just a better locomotive? A teleport device just some exotic phone booth?
Thinking in such terms, we hardly made any progress since the stone age. Screaming "UGA!" from one bush to another? - Fast and reliable communication! Running from one cave to another? - Advanced transportation! Using fire for cooking? - Just another power source.
This idea is based on a widely disseminated misconception, that T-cells don't reproduce when out of bone marrow. They do, and happily so, after being activated by other cells, antigens, cytokines and a bunch of other means.
Your method has been tried, in a way. A patient's blood was essentially flushed with healthy blood from donors, so his whole blood was exchanged. It did no good in the long term, because the HIV infects also macrophages in other tissues than blood. The next wave of the infection came from those macrophages.
No. That's not how a virus works. A virus, outside of a living cell is a inert bunch of proteins, nucleic acids and sometimes lipids. A "genetically-engineered" virus could only work if it would infect the same cell as the HIV. If two different viruses infect the same cell, a process called interference can occur. This can screw both of the virus types, but the cell is screwed as well. And to kill all of the HIV infected cells, we would need the engineered virus to be more infective as HIV. So essentialy we would end up killing HIV with some kind of uber-HIV. No good.
Ehm. Not a bad idea, but I don't want any 80' pop music encoded in my DNA. I'm sure it would end up with cancer.
As a more serious note, why bother with a DNA reader? Those things are slill prety large to fit into any ear. A biotech device/symbiont that transcribes the DNA stored information directly into a neural feed, connected to the auditory regions of the brain would be a nice solution.
I live in a post-communist state. I believe in democracy. I allready learned not to fear the governement, but I definitely don't trust them.
This is too cynical for monday morning. Believe it or not, some people are not criminal simply because they have some moral code.
Ah, thanks. That term was unknown to me.
BTW, that stab into the dark missed, not the US.
What's a carbon footprint?
from TFA: "The robots will also create a smaller "carbon footprint" than conventional building methods;"
Offtopic like hell, but my first thought was "Death by snoo snoo"
The cat is dead. It is in the box since 1935. No cat can live this long. Deal with it.
I come to the movies 10-15 minutes late. At first it was because I am a chronical latecomer (is that a word?), but later I figured out that it is actualy convenient. You cut the shouting crap ads, the anti piracy propaganda and maybe 1-2 trailers. Well, I miss the trailers sometimes...
And after the 6 million are gone, we are left with something like this: http://giger.com/ArtDesign/DesignGallery/Sculpture Works01.jsp
"Monoclonal antibodies are manufactured by implanting genetic sequences into the ovaries of live rodents, then extracting the resultant drugs which the rodent cells have produced."
No.
Monoclonal antibodies are produced by hybridoma cells. To get hybridomes, you immunize a mouse against your target antigen (in this case the human T-cell receptor). Then you extract the spleen cells from the mouse and fuse them with mouse lymphoma cells. After that you culture every single cell separately and test it for antibody production. Most of the fused cells will either die, or lose the ability to produce antibodies, but some of the clones (cell lines derived from a single cell) will produce your target antibody. This is why they are called "monoclonal".
This description is of course very simplified, production of monoclonal antibodies is a very complex process. Using a monoclonal antibody as a biological weapon would be very ineffective, indeed.
If conditions were right, that initial small pocket of bacteria or virii could multiply to cover the planet in a matter of years.
I do not disagree completely, but one word is definitely wrong in this sentence. Virii.
A virus is a parasitic lifeform, that "lives" only inside of a living cell. No cell - no life, no multiplication, no evolution and no spreadnig. Outside of a living cell a virus is an inactive lump of protein and nucleic acid.
Other tahn that, a virus is a potent driver of evolution by mixing up its host genome, possibly creating new genetic structures.