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Thats another reason to just say no to DO

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Quantum teleportation is a long way from transportation of matter... check out this thread.

Caffeine works to increase the absorbtion rate and efficiency of ergotamine, which then acts as an adenosine antagonist, and also enhances its activity. But personally, caffeine gives me a headache :/ Ergotamine is also a starting point on the road to LSD synthesis

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I'd rather just discredit you than comment on that crap... So, the 10th planet is arriving this month according to you. Well, I'll cya in hell. Ass. And I'm moving this thread to metaphysics. (FYI people who don't know adam- he's obsessed with the belief the 10th planet predicted in ancient summerian tablets is going to smack into the earth this year, and the media is covering this up... he insists the planet is coming, and acknowledges amateur telescopes could see it approaching right now, he even made me waste my time checking out the coordinates where this planet supposedly was)

I'm running it also... but I keep turning it off and on, that combined with the 25 hour per unit time i've only completed 2 :/

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Most good posts restored, besides the usual owning of Zarkov by me and Sayonara. Please post requests for restoration of lost posts in this thread, as well as any problems you may be experiencing.

We all wish we knew something that would actually work :/ BTW has anyone heard of any results from the vaccine tests they're doing in Africa for the past couple of years?

Most viruses don't affect erythrocytes, but all the cells above it would be effected... and the life span of an erythrocyte is only 120 days, so in turn it would cause a depletion of available RBCs and oxygen deprevation.

Well in order to change the structure of erythrocytes and platelets, you'd have to change the type of cells that peform erythropoiesis and thrombopoiesis (erythroblast and megakaryocyte, repectively). The challenge lies in having a virus deliver its DNA or RNA without provoking a cell response that normally happens when a virus enters a cell. Since viruses cannot differentiate one type of cell from another, it infects all cells. This generally creates an immune response where the system will destroy the infected cell. People who undergo genetic therapy are normally given immunosurpressant drugs... but I don't think that's a good idea with an HIV infected person.

That raises an interesting oversight, I do not believe erythrocytes are actively involved in protein production, therefore couldn't be engineered to produce anything. The virus would have target erythroblasts, the immediate nucleated precursor to erythrocytes. The body wouldn't know the invading virus was helping instead of harming, so there would be an immune response to the virus itself.

Erythrocytes are hemoglobin based, and the structure has 4 binding sites sticking out for oxygen, so if there was something blocking those sites oxygen carrying would be signficantly impaired. Even if they were genetically engineered to have properties of T4's, it wouldn't be a great idea since introduced a virus to "infect" erythrocytes, it would increase the viral load and trigger an immune response. That's the primary problem with gene therapy today. Their effect on HIV is questionable, because I haven't heard of in vitro studies that suggest they could stop HIV if there were simply more of them. If this were the case, I suspect we could produce mass quantities of these cells in vitro and introduce them to the affected subject in vivo.

Well said.

Actually there is an immunology forum... moved

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You're confusing habituation with language. These are not the same.

Have to start somewhere. Especially in science, while most of what is done now will be forgotten in the distant future, the near future will have t obuild upon that information. Scientific research is built upon past discoveries, and we wouldn't be where we are today if somewhere along the line people never started asking why and inventing things.

What we do will be built upon by future generations.

Pair production... black hole evaporation. Interest theory put forth by Stephen Hawking, where if a pair is created outside the event horizon, one will escape, causing it to appear that the black hole loses mass. Another theory suggest quantum tunneling could very slowly allow particles to escape.

Then why are black holes predicted to emit certain waves? How could one pure wave escape, but light cannot?

I was going to delete this for being blatantly sarcastic, but I thought you all need a good laugh

Wrong. Gene regulation takes place in transcription, not translation. tRNA simply reads, not activates or deactivates. If a operon is not activitated, the gene doesn't even make it on to the mRNA, much less leave the nucleus. Sounds like you need to review basic biology too.