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Yo Pent, genes and biotech

Started by Nephew Twiddleton, May 14, 2014, 11:52:20 PM

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Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 06, 2014, 09:10:32 PM
Also heard about a camera that shoots 100 billion frames per sec. Dunno about scientific shit but if I could shoot helmet cam at even a tiny fraction of that, it'd be king of awesome!

Weird, I feel like I've seen that video before, but this article just came out.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


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Quote from: Reginald Ret (07/05/1983 - 06/11/2014) on December 05, 2014, 08:18:09 PM
Twid, I love your explanations, I think we could work together on a kids guide to biochemistry if I ever get my act/shit/mind together.

P3nt, I love your questions, you ask questions I wouldn't think existed yet when you do they make a lot of sense.

That's a really intriguing concept....
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Next level of structural logic?

If genes equate to functions then the loops would appear to form func main{} or maybe there's another level up from that?

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Upstream regulation and looping is pretty old news (it's in my textbook, which is from 2007) so what's actually new-ish here is the mapping of  the looping, finding consistent patterns in it.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


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Dunno if this is old news but it looks like biology 1.0 just got more complex

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Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 05, 2015, 06:26:42 PM
Dunno if this is old news but it looks like biology 1.0 just got more complex

First I've heard of it!

I liked this quote from the principal researcher:

Quote"This surprising discovery reflects how incomplete our understanding of biology is," says study first author Peter Shen, a biochemistry postdoctoral fellow at the University of Utah. "Nature is capable of more than we realize."

That fact is basically what I find most exciting about biology. Every layer of discovery we make opens up our perspective on how much more there is that we have no idea about. I was reading a book by the neurologist Ramachandran this morning, and he compared the present state of neuroscience to the state of physics in Faraday's time. I don't know what could be more exciting than knowing that most of my field of study is a complete mystery! I actually get a tiny tingle every time I see the words "the exact mechanism is unknown".

And now, here is a mechanism for protein editing protein, when the previous big discovery was that proteins edit RNA! So we now understand that we have potential for code modification at every possible stage of existence. The possibilities are absolutely mind-boggling! The ramifications of what could potentially be done, if we can engineer our own protein-modifiers, are incredible.

Thanks for sharing, this was a good link.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


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FWIW "the exact mechanism is unknown/unclear" is scientist-code for "we have no fucking idea, but we're scientists so our egos won't allow us to just flat-out say we don't know anything". Whenever you're reading something that says that, keep that in mind (but also keep in mind that for any given instance, that's subject to change at any time, because by the time something gets to print as "unclear" someone might have figured it out).
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."