greenprogrammin

nicely put CharonY.

Cholesterol is found in the lipid bilayer of cells. I'm not sure if I can really answer question 1 directly. Cholesterol, and various lipids will also be found in your blood serum. The serum cholesterol will be vailable throughout your body for anabolic and catabolic reactions. Exercise will help you burn the simple sugars in your diet. These simple sugars if not used will be turned into triglycerides. For question 4, I would recommend a book called "Fats That Heal and Fats That Kill". It explains many things regarding the subject. It helps me understand how important it is to stay away from refined and simple sugars. Also, essential fatty acids are important to understand. The book mentioned above is really good for anyone interested in controlling their lipids.

Just to follow up on the topic. If you did have a large culture I would recommend a good yeast culture on the side with a still. The alcohol from the yeast culture and still would be a good antiseptic. Alcohol is also a great solvent. I'm not sure of the soluility of the penicillin but you will probably need to learn to seperate the various drugs out of the stock solution. An acid base extraction would be good to precipitate out some stuff. But, others you may need to perform some chromatography. I think the simpleist chromatography would be using TLC (Thin Layer Chromatography). Chromatography can be as simple as a coffee filter and alcohol to complex as expanded bed column chromatograph. TLC chromatography on thicker stationary phase would be best for preparatory chromatography. If there is a chaotic event, people would have to group together and rebuild and reorganize as soon as possible. I think the first step would be to improve general hygiene as mentioned with the soap idea (BTW... fat + ash = soap). Next, I would recommend the yeast culture and distillation systems. Alcohol is invaluable and will be needed for many other labs. Since you have the still you will need purified water for IV solution. You should also make your IV solution isotonic to blood... Therefore you will need to make some purified salts. Nothing some strong acids and bases couldn't produce. You will probably need someone that works glass real good. You'll need tempered glass or if possible pyrex. If you have plenty of metals to refine you will be able to put a metal worker to work. It's a lot about the resources you have and the knowledge you have to put it to use. You can purify/clean the air and a chamber for sterile work with low tech methods (spark ionizer, volatile oils, bleach, alcohol, etc...). I don't know how easily a hepa filter system is to produce... I think this thread is very important. I don't think anyone should give up on such a question. The possibility is real. Good Luck!

I think there are T cells and B cells. T cells are from the thymus. B cells are from the bone marrow. You may want to look into the stem cells (hematopoietic cells) that produce many blood based cells. I don't think there are any cells specifically born in the lymph nodes.

Personally I can say that it is not about adrenaline. I become violent for many reasons (too many)... Sometimes it is hate. Sometimes it is because of frustration. Sometimes it is because of current pain levels. Most of the time it is because of my CRAVING OF POWER. I pride myself on the power I can harness. Fortunately, I made it through adolesence into adulthood without too many problems. Everyday is a struggle to GIVE UP CONTROL of the things around me. It has a lot to do with control. I hope this helps... lol Peace!!! hahaha BTW... Why do you ask???

Hey Peripheral... I like the work you've done... I'm really new to biology in practice. I would like to get into a few threads on the subject!!! I'm only familiar with hydroponics and a few solid substrates. What books would you recommend? I'm out looking now... lol Thanks for the inspiration. I believe you are serious and you are really pushing the envelope. I would like to learn this in depth for the purpose of understanding another form of "bioreactors". I'm trying to learn bio from as many aspects as I can... This is a new one to me... Thanks again!!!

Are you using electromagnets? If so you will need to know your wire gauge, length, windings, insulator temperature range, Inductive reactance and a few other factors. How much power you are able to safely use without causing a meltdown of your insulator or the wire itself will depend on the above factors. When you determine your power range you will want to consider if you want higher voltage or current. Also if you are using an AC power source you will be able to play with frequency. There are many possibilities. I'm not familiar with the experiment you are performing but I imagine it is just a novelty to illustrate/display iron interaction with the magnetic lines of force in solution. I would imagine you would want around 100 watts. I would use 100 watts as a low estimated figure from the basic understanding of speakers and their performance.

I think you should really consider VSEPR as he mentioned. Also, know about the electron configurations and the OFBAU principle. Lastly, check out a good schaum's outline book on organic chemistry. Good Luck!

For the first part of your UV Spectroscopy I would consider the woods lamp. There is a lamp known as the woods lamp (includes the woods lens). This lamp is a UV lamp that is used in dermatology to flouresce dermal fungal and bacterial infections. These dermal fungal and bacterial infections will flouresce different colors. You may consider this form of macroscopic UV spectroscopy and adapt it for your needs.

I guess this genome is a little different. Looks like there are 8 segments. Some really good reading on this is found on the link below. Look under the nucleic acid section of the description by the International Commitee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Description of Influenza A ://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/ICTVdB/00.046.0.01.htm also: Large-scale sequencing of human influenza reveals the dynamic nature of viral genome evolution. ://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16208317

This is what I have for the HIV Genome Map. I can see the gene layout. ://www.hiv.lanl.gov/content/sequence/HIV/MAP/landmark.html I'm looking for this for the H1N1 Virus. I guess I could look for Influenza A gene map instead... Thanks for the thought and the quick replies!

CharonY: This is similar to what I was looking for: ://www.hiv.lanl.gov/content/sequence/HIV/MAP/landmark.html The above is for the HIV Genome. I'm looking for the H1N1 genome map. Genecks: Thanks for the details on the ScienceMag entries. I'll post details later if I find it. good night!

The more you know the more questions you have... The more questions you answer the more you see the big picture. The bigger the picture you see the more pieces of the puzzle you notice are missing. Your interest in education is vital. It is the guided development of your education that is important. Try to direct your interests into an area that you think would be beneficial. I too have the craving for info. I try to direct my interest towards medicine and various surrounding sciences. Don't let the passion die... Keep feeding it... Lastly, pass on your passion. Peace!

I have been wanting to study the HIV genome map and match known sequences. Has anyone done this? I was looking at some H1N1 sequences back a while a go. I have not found the map to understand the genome... Does anyone know if there is a H1N1 Genome Map laying around anywhere? I'm trying to get involved in current events... I would like to talk about these genomes and stuff later. I think I found the HIV genome map on NIAD but I havn't checked around for the H1N1 map. Also, This is my first post to this forum and I just wanted to start a thread... Thanx