LetThereBeLight

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   by LetThereBeLight 6y ago

   The technology for synthesizing large quantities of specific RNA sequences has only been available recently. Same goes for forming the lipid nanoparticles that are used for encapsulating and delivering the mRNA. In fact if anyone has more d
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   by LetThereBeLight 6y ago

   What the author appears to be describing is the experience of being a PhD student/postdoc that he misses. As faculty you are (usually) no longer running experiments and analyzing data, but managing people/projects, writing/re
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   by LetThereBeLight 6y ago

   >Being skeptical of the conventional wisdom can be useful, but keeping yourself intentionally ignorant of it is generally a bad plan. Yes, I agree with this. It follows along the lines of the saying: You must learn the rules before you c
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   by LetThereBeLight 6y ago

   Indeed. In fact there are several works directly showing the formation of protein phase separation occurring at the inner membrane surface to cluster receptors [1,2]. [1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/
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   by LetThereBeLight 6y ago

   Doing biology, as in culturing cells and performing biochemical assays does not come cheap. Software and wetware development are totally different ball games in terms of upfront costs and risk levels. Just building a wetware proof of concep
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   by LetThereBeLight 6y ago

   I am one of the 39 PhDs mentioned in this announcement. Very unexpected to see this on HN.