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.
- Comment on made a sticky 1 week ago:
That Bass Pro Choice in the background is cool, too!
- Comment on Solarpunk AF 3 weeks ago:
Completely understandable. It’s a lovely neighborhood; everyone collaborates, natural lighting nearly everywhere, and there is a convenient arrangement worked out with the larger surrounding community. Haven’t looked back since I moved in.
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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 2 months 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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- Comment on Social media users probably won't read beyond this headline, researchers say 2 months ago:
o7 Thank you!
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Ahhh, thank you.
- Comment on Social media users probably won't read beyond this headline, researchers say 2 months 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…
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“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 4 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 5 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.
