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Thanks for rewording pretty much exactly what I said in different words badchad lol. But yes, you are correct, and a bot mroe detail is never a bad thing

I am a serious nail biter. And a scientist with a PhD in Medicine. With publications and I have presented at conferences. Am I not respectable? Or human? btw. Nobody else in my family bites their nails. I have done so since i was a child.

Just make sure you choose custom settings as to the size of the pic. It has to be small, i think 75 X 75 pixels? Some sites allow larger avators.

On any given weekend I could easily go for almost 48 hours without sleep. EASY. Helps when your friends are party animals, and you live in a city littered with recovery parties every sunday morning. This very weekend I didnt sleep from 7:30 am friday morning until 11pm sunday night. Worked at trance club fri night, went to a recovery party saturday morning, clubbed saturday night and all day sunday until sunday night. Although, I wasn't exactly unassisted, either. And yeah. Im pretty sure there were periods of microsleep in there too.... or at least i THINK it was microsleep ......

Your science teacher is highly misinformed And she shouldn't be teaching students incorrect information. And you can tell her i said so too

Radiation therapy involves applying a strong dose of radiation directly to the tumour in ana ttempt to kill the tumour cells. In most cancers, radiotherapy is generally attempted before chemotherapy. Chemotherapy involves intravenous drug administration. In simple terms, these drugs are usually highly toxic, eg. cisplatin, and are generally targeted to rapidly dividing cells (such as tumour or cancer cells, but also to hair, skin etc) where they intercalate with DNA (as an example), causing nicks and the death of the cell. Thats in very quick simple terms, I can explain it a little better, just on my way out to work though. DreamLord - a quick google search or PubMed search of your drug's name might be able to shed some light on that for you.

Prehistoric humans did not wear shoes. Their toenails, I would suspect, would be kept ground low due to the filing effects of the ground they walked/ran on, much as with other animals.

The Selfish Gene theory is beautifully shown when observing the behaviour of certain bird species especially. I remember studying about the Selfish Gene back in 3rd year University Zoology, under behavioural ecology. Nice thread

Wow, thank you very much, all of you, for your advice, it is truelly appreciated. I have not updated my XP for a loooong time, thanks for the reminder. I have heard that AVG is a great free AV, I used to have it but I deleted it because.. well i cant remember why, obviously i found it irritating for whatever reason I think formatting the hard drive is the way to go with my friends computer, although I won't be the one doing the formatting. But yeah, thanks again!

hahaha thankyou Tristan My name is Dani, nice to meet you. And the clubbing, well, I work at the door (Guest list girl) at a trance club every friday night, just for something a little different. Although Id take breakbeats over trance in a second, any day

OK. Since the thermodynamics and chemistry are a little out of my field, Ill stick to the genetics. My field Firstly, mutations are commonly neutral, sometimes harmful, and occasionally beneficial. Nachman, M. W. and S. L. Crowell, 2000. Estimate of the mutation rate per nucleotide in humans. Genetics 156(1): 297-304. - estimate around 3 deleterious mutations out of 175 per generation in humans, of which the beneficial mutations have a higher survival rate than those that are harmful. Examples of beneficial mutations: http://www.gate.net/~rwms/EvoHumBenMutations.html - lists a number of beneficial mutations in humans http://www.gate.net/~rwms/EvoMutations.html - lists a number of beneficial mutations observed in nature Boyden, Ann M., Junhao Mao, Joseph Belsky, Lyle Mitzner, Anita Farhi, Mary A. Mitnick, Dianqing Wu, Karl Insogna, and Richard P. Lifton, 2002. High bone density due to a mutation in LDL-receptor-related protein 5. New England Journal of Medicine 346: 1513-1521, May 16, 2002. - Results in increased bone strength with no observable negative effects. Prijambada, I. D., S. Negoro, T. Yomo and I. Urabe, 1995. Emergence of nylon oligomer degradation enzymes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO through experimental evolution. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 61(5): 2020-2022. - confer ability to bacteria to degrade nylon And some more: http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB101.html And even more: Peck, J. R. and A. Eyre-Walker, 1997. The muddle about mutations. Nature 387: 135-136. And some more still: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mutations.html, http://info.bio.cmu.edu/Courses/03441/TermPapers/99TermPapers/GenEvo/mutation.htm, And if you are still not convinced, here is a little more still: http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/Most_mutations_are_harmful And you studied evolutionary biology for how many years?

Hi, I want to update my security on my computer, but I really have no idea about what to do, and what I might need. So Im coming to the people in the know Im running Windows XP, with Norton Internet Security (up-to-date with automatic updates, etc etc). Is that good enough? Should I install anything else? Also, a friend of mine has a seriously screwed up computer. His Norton Anti-Virus software is disabled, and a spyware search with Ad-Aware came back with 280 hits. And when I tried to delete the software, the computer crashed. Trying to do a virus scan from an online source was practically impossible, since the pages were continually redirected and the speed was mind-numbingly slow. Any ideas as to what may be the problem here? And how I might be able to fix it for him? Thankyou

I read that whole thread. It seems the computing world is a hell of alot more interesting than what I ever took it for.....

And what of those with recurring short-term memory loss. What of them? Who are they?

I use this username on every forum I am a member of. in·am·o·ra·ta A woman with whom one is in love or has an intimate relationship. [it. innamorata, fem., innamorato, masc., p. p. of innamorare to inspire with love. See Enamor.] A woman in love; a mistress. ``The fair inamorata.'' --Sherburne. Syn: Goddess. I just like the name of it, I guess. And the fact it is a synonym for Goddess.....

I used to use this: Now I just use a picture of myself, taken after coming home from clubbing one night about a month or so ago.

My pleasure

Are you still the same person as you were 24 hours ago, or even one hour ago, given that you have had an extra hour or 24 hours worth of experience? What is it that makes you "you"?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Display&dopt=pubmed_pubmed&from_uid=3037531 Has a list of some very early papers, which you can easily search from, deatiling the discovery of the original retrtoviral gene from the AKR mouse. Go back early enough, and you should be able to work out where they got Akt from, although I suspect it may just be the name of the oncogene, and not an acronym.

Its a protein in the apoptosis pathway, a serine/threonine kinase. I searched for HOURS to try and find the full name, and couldn't OK. Look at this: A serine/threonine kinase, named protein kinase B (PKB) for its sequence homology to both protein kinase A and C, has previously been isolated. PKB, which is identical to the kinase Rac, was later found to be the cellular homologue of the transforming v-Akt. ok im checking that now. A previous report described the isolation of a directly transforming retrovirus, AKT8, from a spontaneous thymoma of an AKR mouse. The AKT8 provirus has now been molecularly cloned from a transformed, nonproducer cell line. The virus genome contains both viral and nonviral, cell-related sequences; the nonviral sequence has been designated v-akt, the presumed viral oncogene of the AKT8 virus. Ok so its derived from teh name of a viral gene.

And here we go: http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/coleoptera/col-home.htm It has a number of links on coleoptera indentification, including pics Hope that helps! Even better: http://www.coleoptera.org/ Nothing but beetles

Ugh. And entomology was a one of my major streams in Zoology :/ I can get you a resource. Ill get back to you

I had the same problem Its also known as protein kinase B, so you'll often see it written as Akt/PKB (protein kinase B). I couldn't find the name either, and ended up using PKB rather than Akt as the abbreviation.