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Researchers Design And Build First Artificial Protein
Science Daily | Howard Hughes Medical Institute ^
| 2003-11-21
Posted on 11/21/2003 4:49:54 PM PST by sourcery
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posted on
11/21/2003 4:49:54 PM PST
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sourcery
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Libertarianize the GOP; Sabertooth; Free the USA
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11/21/2003 4:50:25 PM PST
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sourcery
(This is your country. This is your country under socialism. Any questions? Just say no to Socialism!)
To: *crevo_list; VadeRetro; jennyp; Junior; longshadow; RadioAstronomer; Scully; LogicWings; ...
PING. [This ping list is for the evolution side of evolution threads, and sometimes for other science topics. FReepmail me to be added or dropped.]
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11/21/2003 5:10:13 PM PST
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PatrickHenry
(Hic amor, haec patria est.)
To: All
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11/21/2003 5:12:01 PM PST
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PatrickHenry
(Hic amor, haec patria est.)
To: PatrickHenry
The achievement should enable researchers to explore larger questions about how proteins evolved and why nature ?chose? certain protein folds over others.Who wrote this - f. Christian?
To: Senator Pardek
Those question marks are what appear when you cut and paste from some unusual fonts and the system we're using doesn't recognize the characters. In this case, the question marks probably were substitutes for quotation marks. When I post an article, if that happens I go through it and hand-edit the thing. Some people do it, some don't.
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11/21/2003 5:23:16 PM PST
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PatrickHenry
(Hic amor, haec patria est.)
To: Senator Pardek
That's way too many words in a row for f.
;^)
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11/21/2003 5:54:57 PM PST
by
visualops
(Nothing is fool-proof to a talented fool.)
To: sourcery
Scientific American reported that genetically tailored virus cells could be designed to "attack" cancer cells while passing by healthy cells. In another similar report in the nanotechnology world it is predicted that organic "terminator" robots could be built to reinforce the T-Cells in the immune system. T-Cells with the aid of this nano army could then defeat HIV and prevent AIDS!
We are on the brink of a technological break through that could mean that our generation might be the last mortal one!
Nano technology and biology will be the manufacturing jobs of the 21st Century. Of course the tools will be itsy bitsy!!!
To: Young Werther
I've believed the same as what you say in your post since 1987, as a result of reading Drexler's "Engines of Creation." I'm glad to see that the same awareness and realization are beginning to become widespread.
On the strength of my conviction regarding the future of technology in general, and of nanotechnology in particular, I signed up for cryonic suspension in case of deanimation in January 1989.
The Singularity is approaching at an ever-increasing rate. The acceleration is becoming rather visible and obvious.
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posted on
11/21/2003 6:20:45 PM PST
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sourcery
(This is your country. This is your country under socialism. Any questions? Just say no to Socialism!)
To: PatrickHenry
Thanks for the ping!
To: Alamo-Girl
These threads -- about how close we're getting to creating life in the lab -- never seem to get a lot of action. Strange. Anyway ...
P L A C E M A R K E R
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11/22/2003 4:00:23 AM PST
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PatrickHenry
(Hic amor, haec patria est.)
To: PatrickHenry
Indeed. Perhaps synthesis is not as interesting as forensics?
To: sourcery
Mc Donalds has been doing this for years.
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11/22/2003 8:09:38 AM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
(SSDD - Same S#it Different Democrat)
To: Alamo-Girl
Perhaps synthesis is not as interesting as forensics? Right. It's lots of fun to pound the table and claim that assembling something alive from non-living materials is impossible, therefore a miracle, therefore ...
But some of us have always said that relying on problems not yet solved as "proof" of the supernatural is a terrible trap. If science ever solves these problems, as it may, then the "proof" vanishes and a crisis of one's worldview is the inevitable result. In truth, faith in God is all there is. It should be enough, because running round looking for proof is a fool's task.
To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with the natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot. But I am persuaded that such behaviour on the part of the representatives of religion would not only be unworthy but also fatal. For a doctrine which is able to maintain itself not in clear light but only in the dark, will of necessity lose its effect on mankind, with incalculable harm to human progress....
-- Albert Einstein. Source: HERE.
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11/22/2003 9:09:16 AM PST
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PatrickHenry
(Hic amor, haec patria est.)
To: PatrickHenry
Thank you so much for your post! Frankly, it is always fatal for one to require that God must operate within their own capability of understanding. This is true of atheists, agnostics and some religionists as well.
To some atheists and agnostics, God must allow Himself to be put on trial with themselves as the jury. But God does not entertain such arrogance until the end, when it is too late.
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, [yea], and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence. - I Cor 1:27-29
Some religionists perhaps without even realizing it have built their faith on the counsel of man and not God and thus are in great jeopardy.
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. Jer 2:13
Such as these are all in jeopardy of being crushed by new discoveries in science and math - and more importantly by eventually being confronted with Truth. I agree with Einstein that humility with regard to science, art and religion - is best:
The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavour in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that there is. Einstein's speech 'My Credo' to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin, autumn 1932, Einstein: A Life in Science, Michael White and John Gribbin, page 262
To: Alamo-Girl
Big Al knew what he was doing. Except in economics, of course.
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11/22/2003 10:29:29 AM PST
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PatrickHenry
(Hic amor, haec patria est.)
To: PatrickHenry
LOLOL! Indeed, he had a most remarkable perspective on everything and he was often right.
To: Senator Pardek; PatrickHenry
Folding proteins --- Frankenstein --- evil molecular forces --- DOOM!!
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11/24/2003 8:23:13 AM PST
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<1/1,000,000th%
(Heeheeheeheeheeheeheehee...)
To: <1/1,000,000th%
Invasion from DesignedUniverse // spiritual warfare // syphilis of the intellect!!! ((perversion)) Michael Jackson // world domination ### Darwinism!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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11/24/2003 11:00:44 AM PST
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PatrickHenry
(Hic amor, haec patria est.)
To: PatrickHenry
...researchers have designed and constructed a novel functional protein that is not found in nature. Another feather in the ID cap. That other theory is surely living on borrowed time, yes indeedy....
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11/24/2003 11:13:02 AM PST
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general_re
(Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance.)
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