haha okay, i'm a geneticist, so you can keep telling me how things are done in science and government all you like, but it's not going to change the fact that i'm devoting my life to solving genetic diseases while you are not. it's not going to change the fact that i actually have an NIH grant, so i'm exceptionally…

haha, once again, you say stuff (that runs contrary to the current accepted science) without citing anything while acting indignant about it. an appeal to authority like a saying "TON of M.D.s with PHDs" believe it belies the fundamental fallaciousness of your argument. show me the papers in respected journals that…

haha, okay. you are part of the herd that neither understands nor cares about the science behind vaccines and gmos, yet feels indignantly entitled to make a bunch of claims about it but cites zero primary literature. as i said before, take your bullshit elsewhere.

Take your bullshit elsewhere, please. Thank you.

it works kind of like a phonograph - there's a tip dragged along a surface that responds to changes in that surface. at the same time, a laser is bounced off it back to a photodiode, which records the contours. in this case, since they use noncontact AFM, the tip is oscillated just above the surface and atomic forces…

you don't think that we have, as a culture, built a mythology of the "drone" because we are so casually able to drop the word "drone" in a sentence without really understanding what we're referring to? you don't think that because all UAVs (which are only unified by virtue of being called UAVs and not because they all…

right, sure - that we can cut dna isn't as cool as the fact that we can nick it and insert whatever we want within those nicks (the D10A mutation turns the HNH domain into a nickase rather than a nuclease) - though to cut jamie some slack, the difference between ligation (as in cloning) and in vivo DNA editing is…

While I agree that this is a poor explanation of cas9, this has not have anything to do with restriction enzymes. But trust me, cas9 is not overhyped - I work with it.

yeah - in a sense we're the only people who actually taste it - people who like it lack the ability to fully taste it. supertasters tend to hate cilantro.

jeez, stupid and not funny.

the show Girls, but also white people in general

Can I quickly diffuse a misconception? This is not an image of DNA (i.e. it is not an x-ray image) This is an x-ray diffraction pattern that indicates helical structure. Unless you are an x-ray crystallographer, you cannot look at this picture and think it's a double helix. From a picture like this, you do a ton of…

you mean reservations

If the plan is to terraform Mars, I'd say we've made the decision as to whether we're trying to keep Mars absolutely pristine.

In principle, this'll be accounted for by brick design i.e. they're not just slabs of bacteria. However, if they were, it wouldn't really matter because most mutations you could cause are innocuous or would kill the cell.

GymPact, fatsos

See A-Trak's response to that article, in which he explains the difference between what deadmau5 does and what a DJ does.

No, there are non-retroviral RNA viruses. See Ebola, Marburg, Influenza, Hep C, etc.

This only works for RNA viruses - RISC wouldn't work for DNA.

This only applies to RNA viruses. RISC doesn't wouldn't work for DNA