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trogdor
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 Posted - 03/20/2006 : 17:41:51
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...why creationists are wrong again!
for all those who say that random mutations only create problems, look at this!
Protein returns youth to cardiac muscle
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As reported in Nature Medicine, Day and Metzger's team found a way to improve adult troponin I by using DNA technology to make a combined fetal and adult version.
Day explains, "What we did was to take a very small piece of the DNA from the fetal form and insert it into the adult form." Indeed, it was a very small piece of DNA — they switched a single amino acid of the troponin I protein from an alanine to a histidine....Even though this is a very small change, the team saw dramatic results. When they put this combined protein in to mice, they discovered that the animals with the new form of troponin I withstood heart attacks better than those with the normal adult version....Even when there's nothing wrong in the heart, this combined version of the protein functions normally.
thank god for discover magazine, putting articles from Nature into words I can understand.
bolding mine.
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 03/21/2006 : 12:31:48 [Permalink]
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| Nice article. I think they might be able to make us younger before I die so this is hopeful. I would love to live forever. |
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trogdor
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Posted - 03/21/2006 : 13:54:26 [Permalink]
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I wouldn't. I think it would get really boring.
Get yourself a rogue particle accellorator and a rubber band. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 03/21/2006 : 15:17:49 [Permalink]
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I wouldn't mind living for a couple hundred years. I find I tend to accomplish things at a fairly slow pace, mostly because I like to enjoy what I am doing and not be stressed out by it.
A lifespan of 200 productive years or so... I could probably do more of what I want to.... but then I'd probably find a ton more stuff to do.... viscious cycle..
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
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"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 03/22/2006 : 12:53:31 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by trogdor
I wouldn't. I think it would get really boring....
Are you kidding? With the pace of scientific discovery boring is out of the question. A nightmare with global warming, religious fanaticism, nuclear terrorists, or something might be a problem though. |
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trogdor
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Posted - 03/22/2006 : 13:15:55 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by beskeptigal
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Originally posted by trogdor
I wouldn't. I think it would get really boring....
Are you kidding? With the pace of scientific discovery boring is out of the question. A nightmare with global warming, religious fanaticism, nuclear terrorists, or something might be a problem though.
yes well, the comment was made while I was quarantined for Whooping cough.
I am quickly running out of reading material, and I know that no matter how long I stare at that last article in Science News I will never read it, or understand the importance of the carbon nanofiber crap it describes. |
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