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nullomers and settee-tubs
Jan. 4th, 2007 12:47 pmoh lordy WHY was I watching "America's Next Top Model" and stayed up too late? E! and Bravo "celebreality" prgrams are like crack.
I likes it! although i doubt it's comfortable...actually, anyone who's ever been in a bathtub knows that it's not...
http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19325853.200&feedId=online-news_rss20
"Could there be forbidden sequences in the genome - ones so harmful that they are not compatible with life? One group of researchers thinks so. Unlike most genome sequencing projects which set out to search for genes that are conserved within and between species, their goal is to identify "primes": DNA sequences and chains of amino acids so dangerous to life that they do not exist."
I'm super, duper pro-science and tech, but does this particular search sound like a bad idea to anyone else?
"Whether these sequences have any biological significance in living organisms is not yet known - the next step is to test 20 of the peptoprimes in bacteria and human cells to see whether they have any effect such as causing death or provoking an immune reaction.
Hampikian believes the applications of his work could be wide-ranging. He has already received a $1 million grant from the US Department of Defense.
Further down the line there is the possibility of constructing a "suicide gene" to code for deadly amino acid primes. It could be attached to genetically modified organisms and activated to destroy them at a later date if they turned out to be dangerous, Hampikian suggests."
When oh when will this week end?? I'm tired of minding kiddies. and grading. And I realized that I signed up to be the Detention Proctor after school for the next two weeks. ::mimes jumping out of a plane with no chute, which just looks like me standing dully with my arms spread out, pretending to feel GForce winds rushing me to my doom::
I likes it! although i doubt it's comfortable...actually, anyone who's ever been in a bathtub knows that it's not...
http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19325853.200&feedId=online-news_rss20
"Could there be forbidden sequences in the genome - ones so harmful that they are not compatible with life? One group of researchers thinks so. Unlike most genome sequencing projects which set out to search for genes that are conserved within and between species, their goal is to identify "primes": DNA sequences and chains of amino acids so dangerous to life that they do not exist."
I'm super, duper pro-science and tech, but does this particular search sound like a bad idea to anyone else?
"Whether these sequences have any biological significance in living organisms is not yet known - the next step is to test 20 of the peptoprimes in bacteria and human cells to see whether they have any effect such as causing death or provoking an immune reaction.
Hampikian believes the applications of his work could be wide-ranging. He has already received a $1 million grant from the US Department of Defense.
Further down the line there is the possibility of constructing a "suicide gene" to code for deadly amino acid primes. It could be attached to genetically modified organisms and activated to destroy them at a later date if they turned out to be dangerous, Hampikian suggests."
When oh when will this week end?? I'm tired of minding kiddies. and grading. And I realized that I signed up to be the Detention Proctor after school for the next two weeks. ::mimes jumping out of a plane with no chute, which just looks like me standing dully with my arms spread out, pretending to feel GForce winds rushing me to my doom::
