Sensible Erection | We could discover and enable the unknown functions of the hidden genome. Oh, and cure HIV

Thursday, 30 April 2009

We could discover and enable the unknown functions of the hidden genome. Oh, and cure HIV

quote [ What these scientists have done could give us the first bulletproof HIV vaccine. They have re-awakened the human genome's latent potential to make us all into HIV-resistant creatures... ]

Bioshock immediately springs to mind. I'll have the latent electroshock gene, please.

[sci&tech] [by iqqy@12:06amGMT] [+10 Interesting]

Comments

Krutz said @ 12:11am GMT on 30th Apr [Score:2 Underrated]
I'll take eternal youth, a bigger dick, adjustable metabolism, and, oh... how about the Winter Blast plasmid, because I do enjoy cold drinks.

krimz said @ 12:24am GMT on 30th Apr [Score:1 Insightful]
Quite good list, I'd just add prehensile between bigger and dick (For parlor tricks when I go to parties.)

Chop-Logik said @ 12:34am GMT on 30th Apr [Score:1 Funny]
You want a bigger prehensile dick? Your normal prehensile dick just ain't cutting it?

PottyMouth said @ 12:39am GMT on 30th Apr [Score:1 Funny]
Not without at least one sharp edge it ain't.

krimz said @ 12:44am GMT on 30th Apr
it ain't prehensile enough :(

incpenners said @ 4:17am GMT on 30th Apr

Atlas said @ 1:25am GMT on 30th Apr
Nothin like a fist fulla LOIGHTNIN.

snowfox said @ 1:54am GMT on 30th Apr
I want to be stronger and faster. Maybe I could even get my senses enhanced. Fur wouldn't be back either. I'm sure I could find someone to brush it for me.

zenviper said @ 2:13pm GMT on 30th Apr
FURRY!

Fenny said @ 2:18pm GMT on 30th Apr
unf.

KingPellinore said @ 2:38pm GMT on 30th Apr
So, basically you want to be Beast from X-Men?

snowfox said @ 4:44pm GMT on 30th Apr
Well... I'd be prettier.

KingPellinore said @ 4:46pm GMT on 30th Apr
Naturally. Of course, it's fairly easy to be prettier than Kelsey Grammar!

ckfahrenheit said @ 6:06am GMT on 30th Apr [Score:2 Funny]
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dangerm00se said @ 12:16am GMT on 30th Apr
This is pretty rad science

X said @ 12:22am GMT on 30th Apr
Gettin' HIVVY wit' it!

cb361 said @ 12:27am GMT on 30th Apr
If an individual is 'resistant' to HIV, presumably they would still be capable of passing the virus on to others. And who cares about Flying Cars, if they're going to start unlocking dormant DNA, I want to be able to Jaunt.

X said @ 1:01am GMT on 30th Apr [Score:1 Insightful]
If someone is 'resistant' to measles, the same logic applies, but get enough people immunized and you have herd immunity. The virus never grabs a foothold in a population because enough peoples' immune systems are primed to it because of the vaccine.

This is what we're losing now, and why there are large outbreaks of german measles. There's a statistically significant portion of westerners who are refusing to have their children vaccinated due to bogus scare tactics by Jenny McCarthy and her cult.

soulecho said @ 1:34am GMT on 30th Apr
+1 calling a spade a spade.

maryyugo said @ 1:53am GMT on 30th Apr
no. usually successful vaccination implies that the organism can not infect the vaccinated host because it is destroyed by vaccine-induced antibodies. in the case of induced "retrocycline" as in this concept, it's probably that the virus couldn't reproduce and the small amount one might encouter would be eliminated by t-lymphocyte killer (nkt) cells.

what else unlocking other areas of dna might do is certainly something to have concern about.

maryyugo said @ 1:54am GMT on 30th Apr
sorry-- should've been response to cb361

partick10014 said @ 1:54am GMT on 30th Apr
sounds insightful... what does this mean in simplified english?

maryyugo said @ 1:55am GMT on 30th Apr
it means cb361 is mostly likely incorrect. such a "vaccine" would prevent any infection by hiv however the side effects are completely unknown and could be considerable.

what an interesting discovery tho.

jaxtraw said @ 12:35am GMT on 30th Apr [Score:1 Insightful]
It'd be dead handy to switch our broken Vitamin C synethesising gene back on. Might upset fruitarians, though.

Shrike96 said @ 12:53am GMT on 30th Apr
Wrench Jockey 2 FTW!

crwk8 said @ 1:13am GMT on 30th Apr
Sooo rerooo

crwk8 said @ 1:13am GMT on 30th Apr
i meant retro

Krutz said @ 1:25am GMT on 30th Apr
You must be so ronery.

foobar said @ 1:36am GMT on 30th Apr
You all can have the lighting and whatnot.

I will shoot bees from my hands.

snowfox said @ 1:55am GMT on 30th Apr
Kinda like the dogs with the bees in their mouths so when they bark they shoot bees at you?

ckfahrenheit said @ 6:09am GMT on 30th Apr
that was my favorite weapon

Nihil said @ 1:40am GMT on 30th Apr
In related news, Bioshock 2 looks headed to bore and/or suck.

KingPellinore said @ 3:41pm GMT on 30th Apr
I, too enjoy commenting on unfinished projects!

graham said @ 2:29am GMT on 30th Apr [Score:4 Funny]

Bodnoirbabe said @ 2:39am GMT on 30th Apr [Score:2]
YOU CAN'T DO THAT! PEOPLE WILL BE SCREWING IN THE STREETS IF THEY'RE NOT AFRAID OF SEX! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

theolypse said @ 4:11am GMT on 30th Apr
THERE WILL BE MORE OF THEM!

yevishere said @ 3:13am GMT on 30th Apr [Score:1 Interesting]
Awesome article in Science.
Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data
Michael Schmidt1 and Hod Lipson2,3*

For centuries, scientists have attempted to identify and document analytical laws that underlie physical phenomena in nature. Despite the prevalence of computing power, the process of finding natural laws and their corresponding equations has resisted automation. A key challenge to finding analytic relations automatically is defining algorithmically what makes a correlation in observed data important and insightful. We propose a principle for the identification of nontriviality. We demonstrated this approach by automatically searching motion-tracking data captured from various physical systems, ranging from simple harmonic oscillators to chaotic double-pendula. Without any prior knowledge about physics, kinematics, or geometry, the algorithm discovered Hamiltonians, Lagrangians, and other laws of geometric and momentum conservation. The discovery rate accelerated as laws found for simpler systems were used to bootstrap explanations for more complex systems, gradually uncovering the "alphabet" used to describe those systems.

f00m@nB@r said @ 1:09am GMT on 1st May
ya could've linked it:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/324/5923/81

lsdbeta said @ 12:28pm GMT on 30th Apr [Score:1 Underrated]