I'm surprised no one has mentioned a very unusual book by Lem (unusual by anyone for that matter) - His Master's Voice. It is on Amazon for the curious.
My son, an English major pointed this out to me because of how interesting it is, even though it is not science fiction in the traditional sense. Some have described it as a scathing commentary on science and others have applauded the connection between the title, subject matter, and a dog listening to a gramaphone.
Good read. RIP, Stan...
What an inspiration to the troops this guy is!
Just go into the laboratory - or computer room - with a couple
of bright undergraduates and give them an interesting problem
to work on. You will be amazed at what they come up with.
I've also worked in industry (3M) and the number of creative
people there who came up with new and inventive things was
also very impressive. (and not just "post-it notes")
Perhaps this guy was just having a bad day and made some ill-considered remarks, I hope so.
It is a little disappointing to see people talking about "showboating" in this
case. The NAMD program is a fantastic md program for biological systems that has been designed from the bottom up to be scaleable. The same group has also
developed a graphics program VMD that allows one to analyze results from MD runs
and even interact with a simulation while it is in progress...
The folks at the University of Illinois are WORLD CLASS in this area and deserve
congratulations for making it widely available. You can download NAMD and VMD for your pc (if you want to) or your Mac and have a heckuva simulation system. What is nice is that you can use any little toy program files that you develop for calculations on supercomputers at Pittsburgh or San Diego, say.
The NAMD program won the Gordon Bell program a few years ago.
Check it out!
Gmail's spam system seems to work pretty well. After a month, the stuff in the spamcan goes bye-bye. Or you can just go down there, select it all with a keystroke and dump it.
Pretty nice...
Actually old Crays were cooled by being immersed
in fluorocarbons - supposedly inert. I remember
going out to Cray in Mendota Heights about a
"leetle problem" with this.
They actually had the system hooked up in a sort
of "fountain" that looked very cool. I am sure
the marketeers loved it...
This stuff could be used to attach to the surface of transferrin and may have beneficial effects on it. Also I am a little skeptical of cyclodextrin encapsulating transferrin. Cyclodextrin is a donut shaped molecule with a fairly small cavity. It might hold say cholesterol, but not a protein.
I assume you meant collagen, in your post. This has its own problems because, depending on its source, it can be immunogenic.
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As Bill the cat would say... Puh-leeze go back to normal. Is this your pre-April Fools attempt at humor ? paul
I'm surprised no one has mentioned a very unusual book by Lem (unusual by anyone for that matter) - His Master's Voice. It is on Amazon for the curious. My son, an English major pointed this out to me because of how interesting it is, even though it is not science fiction in the traditional sense. Some have described it as a scathing commentary on science and others have applauded the connection between the title, subject matter, and a dog listening to a gramaphone. Good read. RIP, Stan...
What an inspiration to the troops this guy is! Just go into the laboratory - or computer room - with a couple of bright undergraduates and give them an interesting problem to work on. You will be amazed at what they come up with. I've also worked in industry (3M) and the number of creative people there who came up with new and inventive things was also very impressive. (and not just "post-it notes") Perhaps this guy was just having a bad day and made some ill-considered remarks, I hope so.
Thanks! (We use it and it is great also. Unfortunately it does not scale as well as NAMD, but it is nevertheless very useful.)
It is a little disappointing to see people talking about "showboating" in this case. The NAMD program is a fantastic md program for biological systems that has been designed from the bottom up to be scaleable. The same group has also developed a graphics program VMD that allows one to analyze results from MD runs and even interact with a simulation while it is in progress... The folks at the University of Illinois are WORLD CLASS in this area and deserve congratulations for making it widely available. You can download NAMD and VMD for your pc (if you want to) or your Mac and have a heckuva simulation system. What is nice is that you can use any little toy program files that you develop for calculations on supercomputers at Pittsburgh or San Diego, say. The NAMD program won the Gordon Bell program a few years ago. Check it out!
Excuse me, sir, have you ever heard of thalidomide?
Gmail's spam system seems to work pretty well. After a month, the stuff in the spamcan goes bye-bye. Or you can just go down there, select it all with a keystroke and dump it. Pretty nice...
yep, I was working for 3M at the time...
Actually old Crays were cooled by being immersed in fluorocarbons - supposedly inert. I remember going out to Cray in Mendota Heights about a "leetle problem" with this. They actually had the system hooked up in a sort of "fountain" that looked very cool. I am sure the marketeers loved it...
And oddly enough, the pH of normal blood
is approximately 7.38 which is slightly alkaline.
Tis true however that if you deviate from that
number by a few tenths of a pH unit - you daid...
Are you sure that you don't mean PEG?
Please see
http://www.nektar.com/content/advanced_peg
This stuff could be used to attach to the surface
of transferrin and may have beneficial effects on
it. Also I am a little skeptical of cyclodextrin
encapsulating transferrin. Cyclodextrin is a
donut shaped molecule with a fairly small cavity.
It might hold say cholesterol, but not
a protein.
I assume you meant collagen, in your post. This has its own problems because, depending on its
source, it can be immunogenic.