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Many people wonder about it. I think it is impossible to predict weather silicon based life is possible or not

Does anyone in here know any articles related to biophysics of bacteriophages?

You are either a kid or a very dumb person in an university. First, I would recommend you to finish you B.S. in Physics, then you can talk about Ph.D. in physics. If you are already in your university in a physics program, YOU SHOULD ALREADY KNOW which schools are the best ones. Just by what the professor say in class you shoudl now "In MIT XYZ discovered that the quantum state..." "Three years ago, Mr. XYZ from Princeton, discovered that the EM radiation..." P.S. I really hope you are a kid!

Get reseach in your university first. Same here, I applied as sophomore and they thought I did not have experience. It is kinda ironic, if you do not hire me how in hell am I going to get experience? But anyhow, companies think that students are retards and cannot learn pretty basic techniques in a short amount of time!

I just think that the majority of Americans do not care to study about science because they can live relatively well with an easier major. Who woudl bother spending many hours at night solving problems when you can make a decent living just by managing people? NOT MANY!

I know of a software called EyeQ. It is VERY expensive. I used it several times. After the session your eyes hurt like hell!

I have amny friends taht have been admitted and rejected from different UC's. Here is a profile of your chances: UC Berkeley: With 3.6 and out-of-state. You'd have to win a national chemistry or math competition in order to get in! UCLA: So-so chance, I knew a girl with 3.7 in-state (with all her classes being honor math classes) who did not get it. On the other hand, there was a guy with 3.4 that got in. UCSD: A little bit easier than UCLA, so I would say in your case is 50/50 UCD: I am getting into this one! (Nobody knows about it, but according to USNEWS its chem eng program is supposed to be better than UCSD's) to get in is easier than UCSD. UCI: Same as UCD USC: Money money money!

Dumb, dumb question!

I think the question is stupid, it just intends to attract attention. Stop watching sci-fi movies! Your question is similar to: "Will humans eventually fly (withut any apparatus)?"

Hi there, Actually Bioengineering is too general. Many bioengineering programs actually are EXACTLY the same as biomedical engineerin. I guess they just wanted to make it sound more interesting. If you are into genetics, get into Biotechnology! You will learn all the goodies of recombinant genetics, cloning vectors, etc etc.

Hehe, same here, it took me along while to get accepted into a lab. Right now, I have my mojo baby!

There is no such thing as a genetic engineering major. If you are into recombinant DNA and all those goodies. I would recommend you to take genetics, biotechnology or molecular biology. Biomedical engineering has NOTHING to do with genetic engineering, it deals more with mechanics, electronics and to cure diseases using physical and chemical devices

Hi, Well, I can tell you for sure that people who work at the labs have a bad impression of college students. Just like in your case, I had to struggle a lot to get into an internship position. Now I have been working for 7 months and I have acquired many skills that I would not have dreamt of. As far as preparation, I think that universities expect you to have good grades so that they think that you can learn stuff pretty fast. Interships usually last for 10 weeks and you learn a variety of skills... and it depends in the lab. Some labs will give you boring stuff to do, some others will challenge you as much as you can handle. I am also into the bioengineering stuff. There are a few REU programs accross the nation. Next year, I will apply to many of them and I already have the universities that I want to go in mind.

Hello there, I think it will be hard if you try to find the composition of ribosome on the net. If you are really interested, I think you should go to any university library and look for protein production in vivo. I read some books about protein production and it is pretty interesting. As mentioned before, the ribosome consists of two units the 30S and 50S. The S is a centrifugation coefficient or something like that. Then, each of the units has many sites. I do not recall exactly, but they name it A, B, C, D or something like that. When a protein is produced, each of these sites bind to the sequence of aminoacids that is going to be elongated and provide the "right" environment so that the elongation proccess is thermodynamically stable and viable. That is how more or less the ribosome is divided. If you want specifics, I would definitely recommend you to go to a biomedical library.

My original stance, I thought this was supposed to be a science forum,

Even though there are many genes, there has been significant advances to determine what is the effect of certain genes. There are many methods and approaches that are currently used to determine the use of the genes. But they can be classified into constructive and destructive. Constructive are those that engineers cells by the addition of genes into the genome to see what happens. Destructive, on the other hand knocks out a gene to see what happens to the organism. Although the described techniques are not perfect, they do give a general idea of what a sequence does. Moreover, with the appearance of new computers and bioinformatics tools, we have been able to analyze the use of genes more quickly than ever before...

Unless you have an IQ of 200. I doubt that you will be able to learn everything as fast as Algebra. As you experience university, every subject is exponentially complicated. In one month, you learn more things than what you learn in elementary and junior high together. Which is why I wonder, why do students have to spend so much time in elementary, I think that we should skip student if proficiency is shown.

Just some questions, When do you guys think that we will be able to produce a human organ in another specie? Why are organs produced in pigs, aren't primates more similar than pigs are to us genetically? Is it possible to knock-out the immune response to certain genes when the pig is in its embrionic state so that we may cultivate our organs at our pleasure? Is it possible to make an artificial medium that simulates the human medium to make an organ grow? What are the complications? I know that sometimes a pig kidney may be used by humans to purify the blood. This suggests that, at some degree, human and pork blood is somewhat similar. Why hasn't anyone suggested to use pork blood as a substitute blood? What are the differences? Is there any organ that may the transplanted and that does not trigger any immute effect? Thanks!

I thought this was supposed to be a "science forum"

Hello, I wonder if anyone knows of a good website with good bio-related science terminology. It would be even better, if the website explains pathways. I have been trying to read Journals at the Pub Med and at the Journal of Biological Chemistry and I need a reference source for the concepts that I ignore. Thanks!