Another move towards engineering our own demise.
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New antiviral drug could cure nearly any viral infection – including the common cold
New antiviral drug could cure nearly any viral infection – including the common cold
To get around this problem, Todd Rider, a senior staff scientist in Lincoln Laboratory's Chemical, Biological, and Nanoscale Technologies Group, had the idea of combining a dsRNA-binding protein with another protein that causes cells to undergo programmed cell suicide - a process called apoptosis.
The therapeutic agents devised by Rider are dubbed DRACOs (Double-stranded RNA Activated Caspase Oligomerizers). When one end of the DRACO binds to dsRNA, it signals the other end to initiate cell suicide. However, if it enters a cell and finds no dsRNA present, it leaves the cell unharmed. Because each DRACO also includes a "delivery tag," taken from naturally occurring proteins, it is able to cross cell membranes and enter any human or animal cell.
The therapeutic agents devised by Rider are dubbed DRACOs (Double-stranded RNA Activated Caspase Oligomerizers). When one end of the DRACO binds to dsRNA, it signals the other end to initiate cell suicide. However, if it enters a cell and finds no dsRNA present, it leaves the cell unharmed. Because each DRACO also includes a "delivery tag," taken from naturally occurring proteins, it is able to cross cell membranes and enter any human or animal cell.
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several helices could be used to create a polymer with adjustable stiffness .
Look in to it, they had a huge thing about it on the military channel back in like 06.
yeah just wait for it to go haywire and apoptosis all of your higher brain function cells.
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No need to worry, 1 fusion bomb about 100miles above the ground and everything electronic below it is now dead.
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^ From that article from the previous page about caving in the earth.
I'd like to know why it took them soo long to develop a magnetic 'field' to 'catch' the antimater(or whatever it is seeings how they don't even really know what it is), didn't they watch the da vinci code?
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How did they do it? They worked on a new system that would cloud the antihydrogen in a magnetic trap. New Scientist says:
I'd like to know why it took them soo long to develop a magnetic 'field' to 'catch' the antimater(or whatever it is seeings how they don't even really know what it is), didn't they watch the da vinci code?
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