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- Comment on woolly mice is bioweapon 5 days ago:
He intentionally dodged ethical review and the law, the consent forms he had the parents’ sign obfuscated the nature of the treatment, the experimental treatment offered no benefit over the currently used treatment to prevent HIV transmission from the father (sperm washing), the parents likely only agreed because the law prevented them from having biological children (IVF isn’t available to HIV+ patients in China), the high risk of modifying non-target genes was well known, and the gene he introduced is believed to be linked to neurological differences.
- Comment on meow >:) 6 days ago:
…are we sure he’s not doing any more human germ line gene editing without ethical approval or patient consent?
- Comment on Safe dating tips 1 week ago:
The upper row is from the EU’s Directive 67/548/EEC which has since been replaced with the international GHS (oddly enough a UN standard instead of ISO). The lower ones are in fact the DOT symbols from the US rather than the very similar GHS transport symbols. No idea where this figure showing EU-specific hazards for containers and US-specific hazards for transport together would’ve come from.
- Comment on This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual” 1 week ago:
- Comment on IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE 2 weeks ago:
A dogwhistle for “the Jews”
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- Comment on CONTAM 3 weeks ago:
Inadvertent eDNA research
- Comment on sussvival instinct 4 weeks ago:
No actually. If you consider the plants to be Archaeplastida (glaucophytes, red algae, and Viridiplantae) or Viridiplantae (the green algae including Embryophyta) then the common plant ancestor is unicellular (greens and reds evolved multicellularity independently). If you consider the plants to just be Embryophyta (the land plants) then they already had highly specialized cells and looked plant-like before they split off from the rest of the green algae.
I’m not sure if the fungal common ancestor is believed to have been unicellular or multicellular but if it was multicellular then it would’ve been filamentous like modern multicellular fungi, rather than a sheet of cells
- Comment on sussvival instinct 4 weeks ago:
Fun fact: Animal embryos can be disassociated by depriving them of calcium (E-cadherin, the molecular that holds the cells together, needs to calcium to work) and then can be allowed to reassociate by adding back calcium. If you do this in early enough stages then the embryo will function and develop normally once reaggregated
- Comment on sussvival instinct 4 weeks ago:
Early animals were likely very similar to Trichoplax, but there weren’t Trichoplax. Trichoplax adherins is a modern species with just as many millions of years of evolution between it and the first animal as between us and the first animal. Just bugs me when people end up implying that orthogenisis is real
- Comment on sussvival instinct 4 weeks ago:
I think you misread wikipedia when it talks about its endosymbioses. Whole bacteria are found within an organlle (the endoplasmic reticulum) of Trichoplaxs.
That being said what you described does happen in a number of organisms (including ‘complex’ ones like nudibranchs). They steal the chloroplasts from the algae they eat in a process called kleptoplasty. Seeing as mitochondria and chloroplasts originated as endosymbionts that were then heavily integrated into their hosts, calling kleptoplasty a form of symbiosis isn’t that unusual.
- Comment on It's not up for debate! 4 weeks ago:
Crabs are people!
- Comment on it really do be like that 1 month ago:
It’s the habitual be, a seperate tense in Black American English
- Comment on Please answer. 1 month ago:
vanilla
- Comment on Please answer. 1 month ago:
haha the joke is that we all have to live under the thumb of imperial domination and its demands for conformaty while you have the privilege of being from the metropole
- Comment on Sun God 1 month ago:
And they stay insulating even if soaked all the way through. Perfect for hiking or trudging through snow
- Comment on A childrens tale 1 month ago:
They’ve got it pretty good compared to some animals. Like at least they get to meet their partners or have sex at all
- Comment on I love the future. 1 month ago:
Elon enters the FBI’s inner sanctum and must solve the Vat’s riddles three in order to prove he’s not a gay communist
- Comment on smort 1 month ago:
Yeah sure buddy, sportness is all made up by —let me guess— Big Sportness? Clearly you’re just mad that you’re not very sportnant.
- Comment on smort 1 month ago:
Not to mention the “stupid = ugly” wojacks
- Comment on smort 1 month ago:
Broke: The results of IQ testing are dependent on a person’s intelligence. Intelligence is an objective reality that can be observed and measured with IQ testing.
Woke: The results of IQ testing are independent of a person’s intelligence. Intelligence is an objective reality but complex and impossible to perfectly measure.
Bespoke: A person’s ‘intelligence’ is dependent on the results of IQ testing. Intelligence is a social construct and IQ testing is a means to reinforce it.
- Comment on place yer bets 1 month ago:
Also the impact risk corridor passes through states that are poorly equipped for large civil defence operations: Ethiopia and the CAR are in civil wars, Yemen is in a civil war with the majority of the country under the control of an unrecognized government, and the South Sudanese government is quite week—being at peace only for the last 5 years
- Comment on "Me Ug! Ug feel ACADEMIC!" 1 month ago:
Author-date systems create line noise that makes text hard to grok. Numeric systems (with or without footnotes) don’t have that problem. Honestly I don’t see the point of author-date. If a a paper is really important then it should be referenced in prose, otherwise “(Kowalchuck et al., 2018)” doesn’t tell you anything more than “[11]”; you’re still gonna need to look it up in the bibliography. And that looking up is actually made harder: finding [11] between [10] and [12] is easier than finding Kowalchuk between Kowal and Kowalski or whatever other names happen to be there.
- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 2 months ago:
We already have that technology it just sucks. Look up plant microbial fuel cells
- Comment on Celebrate Non-Conformity 2 months ago:
My favourites are Nqwebasaurus thwazi and Yi qi
- Comment on Our love is like 2 months ago:
((sweet potato) chips) vs (sweet (potato chips))
- Comment on Our love is like 2 months ago:
what’s more sciency: the cycle that controls the vast majority of ocean ecosystems and one that even hobbyist aquarium keepers need to learn, or the niche one that smells like farts?
- Comment on Say it. 2 months ago:
I thought it didn’t need to be said that a bug must be an arthropod. smh, goddamn bug radicals
- Comment on Say it. 2 months ago:
I’m a firm bug centrist—non-hemipterans can be bugs but they have to be from a terrestrial lineage.
- Comment on Say it. 2 months ago:
I don’t really see the point of deveining. It doesn’t change the flavour and the digestive tract is entirely safe to eat
