shellfishgene

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by shellfishgene 6y ago
I wouldn't call it "highly" redundant, more than two thirds of mutations will cause an amino acid change.
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by shellfishgene 6y ago
Thinking about this some more, there may even be an advantage: The virus also mutates, so some error mRNAs may actually confer additional immunity to future or current virus strains. In reality there are probably way to few errors for this
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by shellfishgene 6y ago
As any biologist knows there are exceptions to almost all rules. It's not strictly correct there is zero risk of genomic integration, it's just very low. However there are some 4500 annotated retrocopies in the human genome, so sp
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by shellfishgene 6y ago
There are various options for RNA polymerases commonly used in vitro [1], generally the error rate is considered to be "pretty low", something like 1 in 10k. An error will also have to result in a change of amino acid, which less
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by shellfishgene 6y ago
The knowledge is not there to simulate the immune system in any useful way. Apart from that the main issue why it takes long to test vaccines are side effects. Checking for those would require simulating the whole body including various int
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by shellfishgene 6y ago
There is Illumina competition now with BGI Nanoball sequencing...
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by shellfishgene 6y ago
There are three options, the mRNA "carrier", such as the lipid particle, the mRNA itself, and of course the protein product. The first part is hard to guess without knowing what's in those delivery methods. mRNA, or RNA in ge
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by shellfishgene 6y ago
In the video the drone self-destructs by exploding and producing shrapnel, I doubt knockback is a problem.
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by shellfishgene 6y ago
The paper also has data for Los Angeles, with concentrations begin similar.
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by shellfishgene 6y ago
It's surprising they did not check toxicity on other salmon species. Either it's specific to the coho salmon, which is maybe unlikely, or other salmon species are not stocked in streams near cities?
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by shellfishgene 6y ago
They seem to sell the Neochef models in Germany, what's different about them?
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by shellfishgene 6y ago
No, this does not involve gene drives. The mosquitos used here have to be released repeatedly to keep the natural populations down.
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by shellfishgene 6y ago
I wonder what's going on there, at the bottom it lists the authors of the original study and if they agree or disagree with the expression of concern. It's almost split between Yale and the Brazilians, with one exception, whith th
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by shellfishgene 6y ago
You also have to ask the other way around: What do ticks do to their hosts? Animals such as moose or reindeer can suffer greatly from heavy tick infestations. Depending on the death rate this causes removing the ticks could have similar eff
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by shellfishgene 6y ago
Which site is that?
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by shellfishgene 6y ago
For the German speakers, this podcast is a few years old but super interesting interview with scientist working on it: https://alternativlos.org/36/
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by shellfishgene 6y ago
Well there is SamyGO which let's you root and patch your Samsung TV, for SSH and other access, at least in older models. Not a firmware replacement but a step in the right direction ;)
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by shellfishgene 6y ago
The ICARUS system [0] enables trackers of 5 g weight or less, the receiving antenna is on the ISS. It uses GPS, and is used on small birds and other animals. It's not exactly real time, as it needs the ISS to pass overhead to upload da