yo have u got any like spare mice with ears growing on their backs that glow in the dark? those things are rad
willing to pay for shipping, hit me up
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 14:01 (six years ago) link
yeah this is 100% a plant operation, that's someone else's thing
― mh, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 14:04 (six years ago) link
yo have you got any like spare corn with
― how's life, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 14:06 (six years ago) link
^ gets it
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 14:08 (six years ago) link
I can only allocate computing resources, and not very good ones
on my more useful days I see some data that has ATCG in it, but I am told if I rearrange the letters I am not, in fact, doing science
― mh, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 14:17 (six years ago) link
wow science must be harder than i realised i guess
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
BTW, CRISPR is definitely not ready for clinical use for any but the most debilitating genetic defects.
CRISPR Gene Editing Can Cause Hundreds of Unintended Mutations
In the new study, the researchers sequenced the entire genome of mice that had undergone CRISPR gene editing in the team’s previous study and looked for all mutations, including those that only altered a single nucleotide.The researchers determined that CRISPR had successfully corrected a gene that causes blindness, but ... found that the genomes of two independent gene therapy recipients had sustained more than 1,500 single-nucleotide mutations and more than 100 larger deletions and insertions. None of these DNA mutations were predicted by computer algorithms that are widely used by researchers to look for off-target effects.
The researchers determined that CRISPR had successfully corrected a gene that causes blindness, but ... found that the genomes of two independent gene therapy recipients had sustained more than 1,500 single-nucleotide mutations and more than 100 larger deletions and insertions. None of these DNA mutations were predicted by computer algorithms that are widely used by researchers to look for off-target effects.
― it's just locker room treason (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 14:30 (six years ago) link
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
oh yeah they grow plants from scratch, nobody's editing anything that's already growing
I personally eat all the rejected seed though, I will let you know how that goes
― mh, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 14:34 (six years ago) link
maybe you'll be rewarded with superpowers, eg the proportionate strength and speed of a stalk of corn
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 14:37 (six years ago) link
as tall as an elephant's eye by the fourth of july
― mh, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 14:39 (six years ago) link
imo it's a good thing they didn't try to put genetic material in humans they way they first tried with plants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_gun#Gene_gun_design
― mh, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 14:44 (six years ago) link
The gene gun was originally a Crosman air pistol modified to fire dense tungsten particles. It was invented by John C Sanford, Ed Wolf and Nelson Allen at Cornell University,[1][2][3] and Ted Klein of DuPont, between 1983 and 1986. The original target was onions (chosen for their large cell size) and it was used to deliver particles coated with a marker gene.[4]
i'm picturing a bunch of guys in lab coats taking it in turns to fire a pistol at an onion with a target painted on it
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link
from what I hear, that is not far off
― mh, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 14:58 (six years ago) link
potentially of course a monster movie is crispr but atthe same time think of the possible benefits if we can play with DNA in this we - we ourselves will be Ridley scott's' architects in prometheus.
that is an awesome responsibility
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link