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Developing a modular, nanoparticle drug delivery system(biologynews.net)
4 points by ingenium 19y ago|3 comments
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by ingenium 19y ago
While it would technically be considered a different species (though perhaps in the same genus as the parent species), I wouldn't consider it artificial life. All they did was repeatedly remove genes and see if the organism was viable. They
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by ingenium 19y ago
Your comment that forced hereditary occupations lead to differences in IQ. I fail to see the selecting force that would drive a lower IQ. If there are generations of manual labor as an occupation, that would be a selection force in favor of
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by ingenium 19y ago
I agree with this. I went to a private school because my family could afford it, and as valedictorian I got into every school I applied to and received full scholarships to most. The valedictorian of the public school didn't get any scholar
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by ingenium 19y ago
Why would they make excuses and mislead me in a way that makes their country look bad? We were simply talking one day comparing the educational systems of India and the United States, and they said they favored the system here and thought i
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by ingenium 19y ago
Yes, but you can't get into the universities without a good education before that. I work with many people from India from all age ranges, from 22 to their 50s who are all MDs or PhDs, and they all tell me that before a child is even born t
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I Was a Cybercrook for the FBI(wired.com)
2 points by ingenium 19y ago|0 comments
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by ingenium 19y ago
The brain is composed of neurons. Each neuron either fires or it doesn't, just like on or off in a computer. This is determined by chemical reactions in and outside the cell. A powerful enough computer can simulate this down to the atomic l
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by ingenium 19y ago
Basically, consciousness is nothing special and we don't differ from computer at all in that we're simply a more complex computer than anything we've created thus far.
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The Unwinding of the Asian Currency Crisis(bitsofnews.com)
20 points by ingenium 19y ago|30 comments
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by ingenium 19y ago
See, the problem is that you are simply wrong. I do not believe in the soul, and I cannot say for certain that it does not exist. I CAN say for certain that we are just cells and molecules. Our brains are composed of neurons, which are simp
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by ingenium 19y ago
It depends. I would think that as long as the antibody is human, it SHOULD recognize it. If it doesn't, there is no harm, it won't cause an allergic reaction or anything. However, by targeting this region, the binding of the antibody preven
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by ingenium 19y ago
Does anyone know the details of how this particular vaccine worked? The problem is that most companies are STILL approaching it as though it's a traditional virus like chicken pox. HIV-1 has a defective DNA polymerase, so everytime it repli
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by ingenium 19y ago
I'm currently a philosophy of science and molecular biology double major, and I have to say I agree with Paul Graham's criticisms of traditional philosophy. None of it really makes sense, and is generally nothing more than someone's opinion
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by ingenium 19y ago
I agree that option 3 is a great thing to go, but the problem is that most people won't pay to have these tests done unless their insurance covers it. I doubt an insurance company will pay for it because it costs them more money to have reg
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Mammoth dung, prehistoric goo may speed warming(reuters.com)
9 points by ingenium 19y ago|8 comments
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by ingenium 19y ago
The paper is not publicly available, but it has conveniently appeared on Scribd. http://www.scribd.com/doc/296901/HIV1-Proviral-DNA-Excision-...
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by ingenium 19y ago
It would be a enormous breakthrough if this works as they say. One possibility is to use a modified lenivirus (such as HIV itself) to insert the gene for this enzyme. The promoter for this gene may even be able to be designed in such a way
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by ingenium 19y ago
Slight correction, we'd have to introduce other human receptors that HIV binds to, not just the human CCR5 receptor. It's still not that difficult though, we can put them all on the same plasmid. New techniques, such as magnetofection ( htt
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AJAX SQL Schema Designer. Outputs in any format(ondras.zarovi.cz)
18 points by ingenium 19y ago|8 comments
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by ingenium 19y ago
I don't understand how you answered it. Can you clarify?
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by ingenium 19y ago
But you still never answered the question of why you have faith in the Christian god as opposed to the gods other religions.