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Research work. Like being on a project. summer project work, final year thesis project that kind of thing.

Yo me too! But I wasn't happy I was pretty hungover. Passout on a hardwood floor last night.

Yep to bad it's impossible. Click here for an explaination I suggest reading up about something call Entropy. (Try not to get to depressed)

Well just like the previous post said if you intend to do more than be a lab technician you need to get your masters, and really ultimatley PhD. There are really 3 types of people who are involved in research in an academic setting. #1 people looking to get a higher ranking. #2 lab technicians. #3 people with the highest ranking possible. If you intend to work for a corporation and do research there you have a chance of getting to actually handle a project with just a masters. But yeah anyone who intends to do research and actually wants to handle their own project ultimatley should be looking to get a PhD. And why not? You know you get paid to do a masters and do research and the same for a PhD. Sure the pay isn't quite as high as you'll get initially in a corporation, but you also get alot more freedom usuaully. Why not do research that will ultimatley get you a higher degree and not just research for cash? To me the degree just seems like a reward for a job well done and not necessarily a goal in itself.

How long have you had this old filter on it? It maybe the old filter if it's been there too long. THough I doubt it.

I was refering to bone as a structural device. Sorry I should have clarified that. There is already very good progress in that respect.

I second that!

The only way this will come into use is if gas prices reach a certain threshold. It's not really that much better for the environment. It still produces lots of CO2. Which is what's going to cause us problems. The only really sustanable solution is hydrogen. There are just a few technological hurdles that need to be adressed first.

He mentions that in the original post

Yep I've heard of this sounds really promissing, but I caution you this is very preliminary work. It will be a while till they get this right for many organs. The first thing you'll probably see this applicable with is bone. Basically it uses something like an ink jet printer to spray thousands of layers of cells and matrix on top of each other to creat a 3d organ. This works like other 3d printers. The idea is that the cells with grown and replace the matrix eventually giving a proper organ. There are so many hurdles to overcome though I wont even get into it.

Yeah you basically pick the tissue that will show the most significant effect. Like if it's a disease you pick the affected tissue, the same for toxicoloy etc. There isn't really much of a question of picking an appropriate tissue in most cases. And if there is it's usually pretty limited.

Why you're right. My slip.

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Or the host may have some sort of natural defense against parasites. In that case it maybe beneficial to kill the host. I know there are certain insects that lay larva in live hosts. Eventually this kills the host and once the parasitic larva has consumed all it needs it matures and leaves the dead host behind.

I've tried but I just don't seem to bleed. The same thing happens everytime, the bag fills up about 1/4 full then the blood stops flowing. This has happened 5 times in a row now, and I've just decided that donating blood isn't going to work. My body just refused to share any blood. It's pretty greedy and there is nothing I can do

Depends on how much. Just a little more? It would go through this reaction. ATP + AMP = 2 ADP Like there are buffers and controls to keep ATP levels constant. Glycolysis would pretty much stop until the basline was regained. Some of the excess would be funnelled into gluconeogenesis for energy storage. But not much since storage capacity of neurons is pretty limited. Way to much more? It would kill you. But in no way would it make your brain work better (If that's what you're looking to hear). Well unless it was deficient in the first place. It would be a baaaaad idea. plus what E. coli said about general negative effects of having a needle poking into your brain.

Well since I don't believe it would have any way of getting into the cells you'd probably just pee it out. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure there is not way for our cells to transport atp over the cell membrane.

Wow he what if'd your what if, then what if'd that again. That's like what if cubed!!! *talk about a what if rampage* (I'd say treat his first what if as a statement ) I'd say we'd probably never guess that all that intelligence would have been wasted on a web site lol. What if you woke up one day and left was right and right was left? (like in a mirror)

I'm assuming you're talking about saturation kinetics. You'd want to use a spectrophotometer to read the absorbance at various times. Compare to a standard curve of various starch concentrations. Plot time vs concentration on a graph and find the slope. That's all I'm going to say. oh yeah use ms exel or someother spreadsheet program to do it. You'd have to be insane to cruch all those numbers by hand.

Yeah they also don't spend so much time sitting on their ass. Physical activity raises metabolic rate quite a bit. lol They tend to act more enegetically in the various activites they do as well. But yeah body heat obviously has something to do with it. I guess growth would also effect it as well, since that requires energy. There are multiple factors, generally the more energy you use the higher your metabolism to supply that energy. Alot of people seem to think that metabolims is some magical thing where some people are cursed with a low metabolism and become fat and others are lucky and have a high one and stay thin. While genetics definatley has something to do with it, metabolims is more so an indirect consequence of other genetically determined features than directy predispositioned (strange exceptions apply). It's not like some peoples inherant chemical reations just work faster or more efficient than other, like the general public seems to believe (I'm guessing it makes certain people comfortable to believe that their weight is completely out of their control). However it can be at a greater rate if the body requires more energy. Also between adults percentage muscle mass is another huge factor, but I don't this applies to your particular question. Muscle requires more enegy to maintain. These are also one of the main reasons why excercise makes you feel better and smarter. It excellerates metabolism freeing up more energy for other things. While a lack of physical activity results in feeling lathurgic and depressed etc... Glucose metabolism in the brain is linked to intelligence, even though this is mostly in the context of lack of in certain dissorders, don't be surprised if letting your metabolism drop to low negatively effects this. In healthy individuals this correlation doesn't seem significant however, but low metabolism may make you lazy and less likely to use the intelligence that you got (just a thought, don't quote me on that last one ). *edit* actually it seems heart rate and glucose metabolism can effect certain cognitive tasks in healthy people. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2000 Mar;149(1):63-71. Just some food for thought ha ha (forgive the pun) Oh don't forget about food!! If you don't eat enough your metabolism will severly drop. You'll feel tired, slow, unmotivated, and pretty bad all around as a consequece as well. Lol sorry went abit of topic but I've actually been thinking about this alot the past few days.

We'd be happy to be getting global warming. What if SFN never existed???

Okay the problem is you have to get it into space. And every action has an equal and oppisite reaction. So for every opject it pulls up it would get pulled down as well an amount proportional to the ratio of their wieghts. So you'd have to go back up and push it out farther again.... Basically you wouldn't save any effort or energy since you have to expend a rediculous amount to get it there in the first place...

Yeah and their are people who call themselves vampires and drink each others blood. But it doesn't make them so...

When possible yes, but how do you explain something for which a simple explaination can't possibly exist? Plus complex terms exist for a reason, it is alot harder to explain such things simply, not everyone is a great teacher you know?