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In a new perspective article published on February 27 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Rutgers University, U.S., the importance of integrating environmental effects into genetic research is underscored. The authors discuss how failure to do so can perpetuate deterministic thinking in genetics, as historically observed in the justification of eugenics movements and, more recently, in cases of racially motivated violence.

I hope this provides some real benefit so those macaques didn’t give up their brains in vain :(

Ah I see, so plasmids can be introduced by bacterial infections. I was wondering otherwise how would they end up in mammalian cells. Although it seems this structure is basically a dump for extra nuclear DNA, whether it’s self or other.

Plasmids in eukaryotic cells?

This is pretty cool, but is there a reason to use NN rather than differential equations? Seems like it might be more computationally expensive.

Are you using some kind of declarative language to define the networks? Not sure if a standard for that exists yet. There are the standard symbols for genetic circuits though.

Based. What did you think about Dune? I read books 1 and 2, and then started reading Orientalism by Edward Said, and I’ve found that Dune is smacking of orientalism and sexism. It makes it hard to go back and read the 3rd book.

Imperialism, the highest stage of Capitalism by VI Lenin

Agreed

You’re right, my first post was a bit over reaching

ah that is unfortunate, they probably hadn’t inspected it in a while

what is it in your opinion?

Agreed

That article was written by an ai, kept repeating itself and didn’t explain what this actually does

Wow that’s amazing

Climbing, the gear is all rated to lift 2 tonnes, so a medium sized car. It won’t snap with you on it.

Edit: sorry this is misleading, climbing is not harmless, and a lot can go wrong even with good equipment. The point I wanted to convey was that equipment failure is an unlikely cause of problems for climbing

Lizards are cool, we shouldn’t shame them by comparing rich people to them

Is that a good thing necessarily?

The normal state of most animals is to be diseased, often with parasites

Afaik, it depends on where the medicine came from, if it’s from a eukaryote (compounds from plants, fungi, animals) then it may be glycosylated, and you’d therefore have to produce it in a host that supports glycosylation (another eukaryote). I think prokaryotes also have some features of transcription and translation that make them different to eukaryotes, but I can’t remember off the top of my head.

But to be honest, I think the point of this may be that growing stuff in a plant is easier than using a bioreactor or flask.

For a plant, you need:

• Soil
• Water
• Light
• A bag of seeds

For a bioreactor you need:

• A bioreactor (not cheap)
• Sterilisation equipment
• Closed processing equipment (tubes, filters, tube welders)
• Bioreactor control device
• Biological safety cabinet to work in
• Sterile media, probably with specific additives depending on your cell line
• All of the numerous plastic consumables used in modern labs
• Liquid nitrogen storage of cells
• Probably some more stuff

Dunno about you, but the former sounds easier to do in a space station to me.

EDIT: didn’t consider extraction of the molecule, in both cases of plant and microbial production, that would require eome specific equipment. Probably centrifuges and chromatography required for both.