"Prenez vos pattes puantes sur moi, vous damnés sale singe!"
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If keyboard cat is in the actual episode where Locke is murdered, then "Lost" got a lot weirder since I stopped watching.
"We come from the future" kind of has a new meaning for me today.
The paper has now been retracted:
It's still water, the same as water in the form of clathrate hydrates, bound in proteins, or taken up by copper sulfate is still water.
Not true.
If Reynolds is tired of writing Space Opera then he should write something else.
Surely Arnie deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for this?
Ah, but it becomes more subtle than that. Consider the distinction in English between "run away" and "runaway", between "handyman" and "handy man", or between "everyday" and "every day".
Tell that to Kierkegaard ...
Shockingly, the Danish word "hygge" is missing (best translated as "cosy" or "comfy", but actually more evocative of a party of close friends and family in a log cabin with an open fire, lots of wine and brandy and good food and laughter, where outside is grey and cold and rainy, especially close to Christmas).
Turns out that this is a bad paper on a couple of counts.
Oops. True. (The sugar is, of course, part of the nucleotide, not the base ...). That would also explain the lack of specificity in describing complementarity of bases - it hasn't changed!
@IceMetalPunk: "It's the nucleotides (the GATC) that encode the information into protein, and those are unchanged."
@Howard: ALL cancers are linked to DNA mutations, directly or indirectly.
"Dumt og Farligt" translates as "Stupid and Dangerous", of course.
Also, would an 'XNA aptamer' be a 'xaptamer'? :)
OK, I've now read the paper, and, well, the exobiology perspective doesn't even get a mention. I guess the quote was just from your interview with Pinheiro.
But scientists have been synthesizing XNA molecules for well over a decade.