Rubisco
@Rubisco@slrpnk.net
4 billion years of fixing inorganic carbon in the biosphere. Sometimes mistakes O2 for CO2. Slower than other enzymes, but very abundant. Here, have some phosphoglycerates about it.
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Sticky, Silky, and Danger Syrup! Sounds like a cool lab.
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*enzyme
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Thank you for the clarification! That checks out.
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Not guilty.
- Comment on Heavy Metals 1 month ago:
Iron sulfide, pyrite, greigite.
My favorites from this rabbit hole: “imbricating chitinous sclerites” and “conchiolin”.
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Ceratocaryum argenteum
inaturalist.org/…/581940-Ceratocaryum-argenteumFaecal mimicry by seeds ensures dispersal by dung beetles
researchgate.net/…/Faecal-mimicry-by-seeds-ensure…DOI: 10.1038/nplants.2015.141
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Mitch Hedberg: Where the fuck you get that
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o7 Thank you!
- Comment on Social media users probably won't read beyond this headline, researchers say 1 month ago:
Ahhh, thank you.
- Comment on Social media users probably won't read beyond this headline, researchers say 1 month ago:
Unfortunately, Sci-Hub doesn’t have the requested document: 10.1038/s41562-024-02067-4
Rats! Anybody got a pdf?
- Comment on It's a tradeoff 2 months ago:
There is a small wormy parasite that attacks our red blood cells (RBCs).
It turns out that people with mutant and half-mutant RBCs are less likely to be attacked by the parasite.
Also, the red blood cells of the mutant variety are more likely to be cleared by white blood cells than those that are non-mutants.
Full-blown (homozygous) mutant RBCs kinda suck at their day jobs though. Whereas half-mutant (heterzygous) RBCs are still mostly functional by comparison.
So being a little weird, but not totally weird, gives an advantage over normies (wild-type) when the RBC parasite is common.
Were there no parasite around, the advantage would go to the non-mutant RBCs because they do their job best. Their downside is being easy targets.
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For the curious: www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa072464?url_ver=Z39…
- Comment on Protein 2 months ago:
“Those are some good-lookin helices you have there. Wanna come back to mine and try out some novel ways to fold?”
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The on-the-fly meme-making by the Trekkies is positively inspiring.
- Comment on Science or some other arcane wizardry PCM 2 months ago:
Comrade Pauli?!
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Because Crake is saving it for some special project at Rejoov.
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To the depths of Jupiter, then.
- Comment on Clueless about Biology 4 months ago:
Wouldn’t Jabba being ‘stupid as fuck’ and making erroneous claims about nature be the less convoluted answer here? Bioengineering, canon or not, sounds like the more complicated explanation.
- Comment on Clueless about Biology 4 months ago:
Sarlac that lost the ability to grow ‘roots’ and instead worked out venom and energy storage (fat and muscle) would outcompete and supplant the sarlacs still producing energetically-expensive, overly-complicated stasis bellies.
What happens if they momentarily fail to keep their meals alive, do they starve or become poisoned by the rotting meat? Do they have issues keeping a varied diet alive? How do they maintain a net positive energy balance after producing all that is required to keep organisms alive? Why not stun them and stash them, like wasps and spiders? Why not fatten up like -gestures broadly at all life-. Fat requires very little maintenance.
Could one, in theory, rescue one’s friends were they trapped in a sarlac?
Sounds like an organism that would quickly be out of business were there any competition at all.
- Comment on Lord of the Rings Characters: Screen Time vs. Mentions in the Books 4 months ago:
He could wear the one ring and remain unaffected by it, laughed at it even. Then he could make the ring vanish and bring it back at will.
He seemed unconcerned by the war, almost as if he knew of and had seen wars greater and far more terrible. Yet he had chosen a side and was willing to provide what aid he could.
He was Doolittle to all lifeforms, his songs tranquilized ancient evils, and he could be called upon at long range to swiftly respond.
His very existence suggested fundamental mysteries about the world; old and powerful.
Bombadil, moreso than Strider, was the embodiment of strong, old roots not withering, remaining out of reach of the frost. Old roots that could reason with willows and wights.
