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Just because we are the most intelligent does not by any means mean that we are the most fit for survival. Cockroachs, for example like the above poster had mentioned, are nearly freaking impossible to get rid of.

lol if i needed to get some there's ebay.

Lol how us males have deviated from the standard courtship procedures where we just went roaming around and had sex with everything.

Not really, I was more assuming that they had evolved on a planted that is pretty similar to earth. Wouldn't life naturaly wind up fitting into the "specifications" that life fits into here as those seem to work?

Because the odds of evolving a similar homeobox out of random mutations that is so structurally organized and preserved is almost nil.

The decendants of an emigrant are still aliens but I don't see where your getting this assumption from.

Lets put it this way:

If they have limbs or organs, then they need to have homeoboxes

If they have homeoboxes they are derived from earth species

If they are from earth then they are not aliens rather than migrators

Thats like saying if I went to the moon, started a colony, and my descendents came back 10000 years later, would I still be an alien even though there would be clear simiarities within our genomes?

However, ebola is a highly capricious virus. The reston strain is proof of this, as its virulence can be easily modified. Does anyone know what strain that test was conducted upon?

Does anyone even remotely remember the Ebola Reston incident, where two members of the USAMIIRD didn't goto the lock down area DESPITE having whiffed ebola from testtubes? We were ridiculously lucky that Reston wasn't a virulent strain.

Nobody ever said that the Pentagon's plan had to make sense. In fact, when homosexuality was still a 'disease' in the DSM, the Pentagon paid for some research to see if homosexuality could be transmitted by a bacterium or a virus - the thought being that enemy troops would be too busy humping each other to fight (I kid you not).

rofl that gave me a good chuckle

what exactly is your PhD in? marketing?

the usamriid still houses god knows how many hot viruses...

Cornelius, it's called a nuke, we've used them to stop wars, or else we could use chlorine gas, a nerve agent, or something that takes effect really really quick screwing up interal body parts. Remember, the body parts weren't effected by the cold too much in this article?

rofl and a nuke doesn't really really quickly screw up internal body parts how?

any idea as to how to make our muscle memory neurons become denser and synapse faster? i'm getting sick of all these chords for the guitar

Hi, I'm a newb to the PHPNuke and general PHP world, so I've a few questions about how to accomplish the following:

I'm planning on making a science site, by creating the modules for Biochem, Genetics, Immunology etc. etc.

Now, when I go and create the modules, I wanted so that it displays only the news that are labeled with their respective categories, (Immunology module would display only news that are categorized as immunology and not others)

Anyone might be kind enough to tell me how I might go about doing this?

My AIM is windig0zz if anyone wants to contact me.

double post, doing a direct IP query gives me a cpanel error

I've adelphia, and its also slow, mainly with the looking up part, which i'm guessing is also DNS related. Gonna try it with IP

I'm getting multiple connection failures quite often lately only to this site, the actual loading of the site isn't that bad ,just too many bad connections, like NCBI's front page. OMG I just had to press the submit button 3 times to post this.

anyone know a reaction that would yield either aqueous CHCl3 or gaseous CHCl3?

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Rofl I don't know how you knew about this...

ferrobacillus ferrooxidans? They are chemoautotrophic...

Immortality = no more natural selection

no natural selection = No evolution

No evolution = other species still evolve and kill us eventually.

^ I was laughing, and laughing is a form of breathing that people who have difficult breathing do with less frequency.

lol Chimaeras, hybridomas are the closest thing you'll probably ever come across to mix n matching 2 species.

sigh its a standard procedure... i'm not going to waste my time explaining the procedure, just do a quick image google of hybridomas.

Sigh, if you talking about hybridomas, then that only works because one of the cells was cancerous while the other one was normal. And cancerous zygotes are a bit scary.

There's a reason as to why homeoboxes are so ridiculously preserved, as they are essential to an organism's organ and body development. The system of homeoboxes has been evolving since the dawn of... well lets just say that both flies and humans have a system of homeoboxes, and their common ancestor is.. well is pretty damn ancient.

In order to add any body parts would have to be accomplished by engineering the gametes, not somatic cells. And as people have previously mentioned, trying to add DNA to homeoboxes so that it will develop into somethin with wings is almost nil. If you were however, trying to modify certain organs so that they are similar to that of other species, it is an easier process.

This is SCIENCEForums.net, not SCIFIChannel.net

Possibly' date=' but my bet would be that increased tissue specialization and complexity are what got in the way. That the only salamander which can really regenerate perfectly is a very neotenic species (meaning it retains the juvenile form of the genus to adulthood) supports this, I feel.

 

It also might have something to do with the nervous system, since one of my labmates used to work with them, and mentioned that they can only regenerate if the nerve is intact relatively close to the wound.

 

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speaking of which... i remember reading articles a while ago that claims scarring actually impedes the process of tissue regeneration. As to its exact biochemical impediments, I have no clue.

 

 

But if we were able to synthesize a compound that inhibits scarring, it might lead to some regenerative capabilities in the future. But it would have to be delicately worked in conjunction with blood clotting as well I imagine