Posted on 02/01/2018 4:23:11 PM PST by blam
The CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique is an important concept to know about in these days of biotech advances, but it can be pretty difficult to visualize properly. Is it really like molecular scissors? Where does the DNA go? Is it a big molecule or a small one? Fortunately a group has created a 3D animation of the process that shows it at the molecular level.
You can watch the animation, created by biologists at Russia's Skoltech Institute and the Visual Science organization, below or at the latter's website:
Wonder how accurate it really is? It got the thumbs-up from none other than Jennifer Doudna, one of the people who helped discover and refine CRISPR techniques:
Molecular animations are an essential way to demystify and explain complex biological systems. Through the use of stunning imagery and attention to detail, Visual Science and Skoltech have captured the dynamic mechanisms of CRISPR-Cas proteins and their use as research tools.
These animations were created as part of a "nonprofit education project," so if you'd like to license, modify, or otherwise use them for educational purposes, go for it.
(Go to the site and see the video)
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
"The prospect of influencing the course of human evolution through technological intervention has been thought about for a long time, but usually in an abstract or theoretical way. But that possibility has become an impending reality at a breathtaking pace in the past few years. "
Wow!
So can it be used to remove the stupid from Democrats.
They also raid spider webs for insects. And maybe spiders. Can’t raise baa keys on nectar.
I’m still curious on what they subsist on through the winter in temperate areas. I keep my feeder full of sugar water, but they have to be eating something!
I’ve seen them sit on twigs and zip out for gnats Kinda like a flycatcher. That’s coastal Oregon. Amazing what insects turn up on a sunny winter day. Have you seen the protein feeders? Fill with fruit to attract fruit flies. Fruit flies lay eggs and produce more fruit flies.
Wow!
You'd need the Industrial Strength version for that. And authorized overtime.
Hey! I’m ready! Been waiting for a full rebuild for over a decade! I DO have a few customizations in mind.
Can this technology be used to heal heretofore untreatable diseases like neuropathy and diabetes?
I believe that it will eventually correct/eliminate all disease.
It will also be able to give a pig a human head and all sorts of crazy stuff.
It will also be able to give a pig a human head and all sorts of crazy stuff.
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That is not new.
Manbearpig?
It will also be able to give a pig a human head and all sorts of crazy stuff.
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That is not new.
GREAT IDEA, thank you!
I just happen to have a few canned blueberries that I was going to compost. I’ll put them out in a basket with some cut apples and hope for some fruit flies.
(I would have laughed in your face 5 minutes ago if you had said I would EVER hope for fruit flies VBG)
Hummingbird mothers use spider silk in their nests. They need to be careful not to be caught in the webs!
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