Cold Spring Harbor, NY
We Can Design Cars But Why Can't We Design Cells?
- Posted in the Cold Spring Harbor Forum
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When you get an automobile mechanic, who knows exactly how & why an engine does what it does, and can explain all that to you, then you will learn, from him, how to build an engine. By the time we come to understand genetics to the extent we do automobiles maybe we will understand our selves as well!
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The Recall of autos is an alomost everyday accurrance but the number of parts on a car is very very small and can be changed out pretty easy as in comparison to microbiology. Cells mutate into varing forms and growths and auto parts don't. Cars are designed by auto engineers and cells are designed by GOD and believe it or not biologist ARE NOT GOD. (believe it or not)
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“My Life Is A Shell Game”
Joined: May 18, 2007
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So what's wrong with visiting a body shop to have a cell-mechanic fix your problem? If a cell biologist could fix your growing aneurysm, I'm sure you'd drop the "Only God can design a cell" BS and accept the help in silence. |
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“Got Science?”
Joined: Apr 4, 2007
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Somewhere, on another article now lost for posterity, someone congratulated me on a one year anniversary at Topix. And I replied that the future for Topix is so bright we have to wear shades, and put up a pic of me wearing shades. I just haven't replaced it again yet but I refuse to succumb to peer pressure on the interweb. That's how those teenage suicides happen, I betcha. Condensed matter physics, but I don't think that anyone here is going to be disqualified from citizen science if they have even a junior high education - thinking and learning is what counts. I don't know a single PhD who thinks a degree is what matters. If you can think, you can understand and comment on science. Any other mode of thought is the kind of elitism that takes science to a weird place. |
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Saw the crescent moon last night.
The Topix future seems so bright. Dr Cash must wear his shades. Still to hide his supermodel might. |
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Bradley, FL
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Touche. |
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“Stay tuned, more to come...”
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San Diego, but now: The Woods
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I read this article yesterday and it took a while to absorb it. I thought that it was insanely well written and had incredible links.
Systems biology seems to be a fascinating new field. Although they are "still far from being able to build a computer model of the cell, or even a small cellular subsystem, with which we could simulate changes caused by a drug or a mutation," it seems as though the research is headed in the right direction. The Onion article and picture of Dr. Waterston with the What The Hell?!? chart was hilarious. I agree, "science is really, really hard." |
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“My Life Is A Shell Game”
Joined: May 18, 2007
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Saginaw, MI
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I think most people wrongly believe that DNA is the final word on cell manipulation. From what I gather, the rest of the story, the larger story, is the system that uses the DNA as a simple parts catalog and index. We haven't nearly scratched the surface of the cell interior yet. The Universe can be seen in a drop of water but even more will be seen soon inside the human cell.
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