WindwagonSmith

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Thanks.

For one thing, why would someone go to the trouble of making a virus to kill pigs.

Um...apparently it's killing more than pigs.

I doubt we'd be discussing it otherwise.

From what I can tell...no one knows where it came from yet.

I posted my question because I thought the topic was interesting

and a conversation with about the mutation and spread of disease would be informative.

If anybody wants to discuss that I'm all ears (or eyes as the case may be).

The CDC has confirmed that American cases were found to be made up of genetic

elements from four different flu viruses – North American swine influenza, North American

avian influenza, human influenza, and swine influenza virus typically found in Asia and Europe

– "an unusually mongrelised mix of genetic sequences."[67] Pigs have been shown to act as

a potential "mixing vessel" in which reassortment can occur between flu viruses of several

species.[68][69] This new strain appears to be a result of reassortment of human influenza

and swine influenza viruses, presumably due to superinfection in an individual human.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_outbreak#Genetics_and_effects

Thanks for the responses.

Do you usually insult people who come on here with honest questions Mr. Skeptic?

Say it ain't so!

(Is it so?)

Merged post follows:

Nevermind I just found this:

There is an urban myth of sorts that says that all cells in our body are replaced every seventh year. Science has shown, however, that some types of cell are renewed each week, others never; for many cell types, the rate of replacement is still a mystery. For instance, it has long been mooted whether heart cells remain the same throughout life or whether they are replaced, a debate that is of immense significance to how cardiac diseases can be treated.

 

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now shown that human heart cells undergo continual, slow replacement. In a 20-year old, one per cent of heart cells are renewed every year; this rate then gradually declines over the years, reaching 0.5 per cent in a 75-year old.

 

The slow rate of turnover means that the majority of heart cells remain unreplaced during a normal human lifespan, leaving the heart a patchwork of cells that have been there from birth and cells that have been formed later in life.

Here:

http://machineslikeus.com/news/are-heart-cells-replaced

I'm just wondering....

I know everything has *a* chance of being true so I included the word 'reasonable' up there for the sticklers.

Thanks!

Think this would be better asked in the Biochemisty Forum, no?

Does anyone know where I can get more information specifically on this line of work?

Or have personal anecdotes relating to this profession.

Thanks.

WWS

Darn, I did a "Fantastic Contraption" search but I guess I should have looked a little harder.

Is there any way to erase it?

Yeah, I think the hardest part may be financial.

But you don't go into Biology for the money....or so I've been told.

And I'm not.

Peeling myself like a tomato...thats funny.

...replacing them may be a better option.

But how?

That's the million-dollar question.

http://fantasticcontraption.com/

So we both need to bathe in bleach and then change our diets?

Or probably change the diet first then....

Thanks for all the responses.

I've read in many separate places over a long period of time that bacteria are the main culprit for body odor.

http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS315US316&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=dead+bacteria+body+odor

This is kind of embarrassing but I swear my body odor has changed since meeting and being married to my wife.

It smells like her body odor which is 'unique', or was, and so thats my question:

Is body odor, or the bacteria that die and produce b.o., contagious/transmittable?

Or is it probably something else causing this like the food we are eating?

Also, I want my old B.O. back...any suggestions?

I've tried vinegar under the arms, bleach solution, H202, a little bit of athletes foot spray(!), anything to kill off this strain so my old strain can prosper again.

Nothing seems to work.

Perhaps biotech is working on new, delicious smelling bacteria to inoculate unfortunate people like me with?

I bet that stuff would *fly* off the shelves!

Thanks for all these great answers....

A lot of food for thought.

I'm 34...am I too old to start down the PhD path toward a career in Biology?

Do the students here see 'older' people like me in their classes?

Teachers, what do you think?

Any advice appreciated.::

Thanks.

MOMA design curator Paola Antonelli previews the groundbreaking show "Design and the Elastic Mind" -- full of products and designs that reflect the way we think now...(...about science and design.)

And the stars are just other cities on the far side of the Egg. right?

Isn't there even (limited) debate on how many Kingdoms there are?

Sheesh, trying following that!

....my name is Windwagon Smith and I am a novice Biologist.