Yes, interesting article. Thanks. There is occasional loss of genetic material through aberrant DNA repair, DNA replication and cell division. Loss...
"taught" vs "learnt" Okay, interesting. It's got me thinking, what's the distinction?
Nature News, 12 October 2022 Neurons in a dish learn to play Pong — what’s next? A cellular version of computer game challenges assumptions about...
Yes indeed. Or, even more precisely, fit to reproduce. It's an evolutionary strategy in many organisms (plants and animals) to die after reproducing...
It’s interesting that the original SARS-CoV that caused the 2002-2004 pandemic (but mostly confined to Asia) disappeared, never to be seen again....
They do. They have Sukhoi and MiG fighters, dozens of them. But they don't have air supremacy and most airport runways have been disabled. It's not...
Wow, you’re giving me flashbacks to my university genetics lectures! :eek: It’s been almost 30 years since I studied bacteriophage transduction of...
Pffftt, let's be serious please. Halfpenny at least.
ISTJ, for what it's worth. From wikipedia... [IMG]
Oh, we’re talking about different things! Crossed wires. I thought you were saying that, when a positive sample is chosen for genomic testing, the...
They are, all of them. The full genome is acquired for genomic surveillance. The SARS-CoV-2 genome is only ~30kb. I don’t know what platform relevant...
This is a complex question. There are many qRT-PCR kits designed for clinical detection of SARS-CoV-2 produced by many different manufacturers....
Interesting, thanks. Yes, this is what I was getting at when mentioning our brain’s interpretation and processing of visual information. Our brains...
The human eye has a resolution >500 megapixels and a dynamic range >20 stops. I’m guessing that’s significantly better than the best camera on the...
I thought so, but if not I’ll wait to be corrected, and would be happy to be so. We have photoreceptor cells that detect specific ranges (colours)...
I take and agree with your meaning, but I think it's more accurate to say "Our brains are really not producing an accurate interpretation of...
I just don’t get this whole woolly mammoth thing. -_O The idea regularly pops up with various people and companies (both private and...
As I said, this cannot be done with current technologies. At this time, artificially synthesizing genomes is restricted to the simplest of bacterial...
Okay, lots of problems here. Huh? Only around 1% of the genome is genes, ie. DNA that encodes proteins. So, say about 32 million base pairs. The...
Assuming for a moment, for the sake of argument, that this plan would succeed in oxygenating the Martian atmosphere, what’s the time frame? The...
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