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RuBisCO
4 billion years of fixing inorganic carbon in the biosphere. Sometimes mistakes O2 for CO2. Not as fast as some enzymes, but very abundant. Here, have some phosphoglycerates about it.
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Cake day: December 23rd, 2023
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Love it. One example that springs to mind is calling out the NCAA.
“‘Student Ath-uh-letes’? Haha, that is brilliant, sir.”
So when it helps out with a recipe, we won’t get a suggestion specifically for Elmer’s, but rather the IUPAC name for superglue?
Gotcha. Thanks! Do the points P, E, Y, U, and F stand for something or are the letters arbitrary?
Can a TI-84slinger explain this for us pipette-wielders?
It passed through the bacteria filters! So small that it passes by the filters and it kills–poison, toxin. But wait, it can be diluted to lowest effective concentration, and then with addition of host it grows back to high concentration. What poison does that?
At this scale we’d be seeing with electrons not photons, and everything would be gold coated. It’s unlikely the head would be transparent. But other than that, not bad. False color gets applied to the B&W EM images, which helps.
Rabies is shaped like a bullet!
o7
“Obligate intracellular parasite” was drilled and showed up on multiple exams, along with all that you mentioned. I’ve also heard “escaped cellular machinery.”
Absolutely fascinating…if a tad frightening.
Hey, at least the samples are still in the gel rather than the buffer solution!
It looks like they were going for cellular scale, which would explain the absence of icosahedral shapes as viruses would be way too small at this scale. However, some parts look like colonies rather than cells.
Most cells would not be this colorful unless stained or grown on media that colors them.
Hard to say what specifically they were trying to portray. MRSA and Strep look represented, still looking for Candida auris. Maybe some cyanobacteria?
To tell friend from foe would require more than looking at them–DNA sequencing, drug resistance assay, etc.
“What’s with all the files named after cannabis strains on the gcms and lcms computers?”
“I was making a point.”
Looked like it from the picture, but I wasn’t sure. Then I went back and forth on “lupin” or “lupine”. Didn’t know that about Iceland.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&taxon_id=49722
The pitchfork pedipalps are adorable. Lovely little organisms.
Tater tots