Climbing Cloud Nine

unfreshing: there’s literally no way to tell how many chameleons are in your house

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 21:15:49 -0400

unfreshing: there’s literally no way to tell how many chameleons are in your house

fyeahuniverse: Smallest Five Ringed Structure Imaged Born from...

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 21:06:42 -0400

^{Smallest Five Ringed Structure Imaged}

^{Born from a doodle in a planning meeting this project was born, and it produced this amazing image. Olympicene radical was the molecule of choice, with its five ringed structure. Using atomic force microscopy the team managed to image the single molecule in surprising clarity. The image above is in false colour and the molecule is less than 100,000 times thinner than a human hair.}

^{^{(Image credit: IBM Research, Zurich, University of Warwick, Royal Society of Chemistry)}}

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Sun, 03 Jun 2012 21:00:32 -0400

fuckyeahmolecularbiology: Ancient Viral DNA in the Human...

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:56:41 -0400

fuckyeahmolecularbiology:

Ancient Viral DNA in the Human Genome

Traces of ancient viruses, which infected our ancestors millions of years ago, are more widespread throughout our modern-day genomes than was previously thought.

The new research sheds light on the origins of a large proportion of our genetic material, much of which is still not understood. Only about 1.5% of human genes code for a useful protein product, that we’ve discovered; half of the rest is labeled “junk DNA” - although new research indicates it has a variety of purposes - while the other half was introduced by viruses or parasites, like the ancient ones studied here.

The senior author on the study (published in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences), Dr. Robert Belshaw from Oxford University’s Zoology Department, said: “This is the story of an epidemic within every animal’s genome, a story which has been going on for 100 million years and which continues today.

“Much of the dark matter in our genome plays by its own rules, in the same way as an epidemic of an infectious disease but operating over millions of years.

Learning the rules of this ancient game will help us understand their role in health and disease.”

Not only do these viruses exist within our genomes, but some of are even helpful, Dr. Belshaw insists. Protein syncytin, for example - derived from a virus - helps develop the human placenta.

The study believes that unlocking the secrets of these viruses is essential to understanding the full complexity of the human genome.

Image: SEM image of Influenza A virus.

Bingo Players - Rattle (Original Mix) because i’ve...

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 19:57:00 -0400

Bingo Players - Rattle (Original Mix)

because i’ve had a beautiful day and everyone needs some Feel-Good music sometimes.

collegehumor: Pull in case of finals Red Bull comes out of the...

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:23:36 -0400

collegehumor:

Pull in case of finals

Red Bull comes out of the ceiling sprinklers, which is great during Finals, but only fuels the flames of a fire.

matthewkocanda: concept art by retrovenus miravis what if tony...

Thu, 31 May 2012 20:37:00 -0400

matthewkocanda:

concept art by retrovenus miravis

what if tony stark was a genetic engineer instead??

holy shit this is incredible.

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Thu, 31 May 2012 19:14:23 -0400

radicul: did you try scraping the burnt parts off asdfghjkl

Thu, 31 May 2012 17:55:08 -0400

radicul:

did you try scraping the burnt parts off

asdfghjkl

bortky: One Must Always Reblog When Fandoms Save Each Other

Thu, 31 May 2012 17:33:52 -0400

bortky:

One Must Always Reblog When Fandoms Save Each Other

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theobsessivenerd: fish—bones: pinkhairedlesbianadventures: cal...

Thu, 31 May 2012 13:58:00 -0400

theobsessivenerd:

fish—bones:

pinkhairedlesbianadventures:

callmekitto:

khelleren:

royalrunes:

So I have been in some form of a LOKI’D war with my friend and today I decided to LOKI’D her room. So another friend and I did this. She’ll keep finding them months from now. I feel super accomplished.

whenever I see stuff like this I always think omg so much printer ink went into this

Easily worth the ink though

Um. I’d just keep it all up.

sideofdork: communismthrills: Quoth the Raven perfect.

Thu, 31 May 2012 12:28:21 -0400

sideofdork:

communismthrills:

Quoth the Raven

perfect.

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do-you-have-a-flag: cumberbitchsandwich: dapperwaffles: cumber...

Wed, 30 May 2012 00:01:43 -0400

do-you-have-a-flag:

cumberbitchsandwich:

dapperwaffles:

cumberbitchsandwich:

skallagrimjones:

Dark chocolate cake with raspberry mousse filling and white chocolate buttercream.

tracydear: Assembled by *T1mco

Tue, 29 May 2012 23:57:10 -0400

tracydear:

Assembled by *T1mco

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Tue, 29 May 2012 23:36:09 -0400