'Lego' Approach Thwarts Anthrax Toxin 78
NewScientist is reporting that scientists have discovered complex nanoscale structures that have successfully protected rats from anthrax. From the article: "The technique relies on using tiny 'peptide' molecules, stuck onto one large molecule, which bind to toxins and prevent them from causing damage. They do this in much the same way that two Lego bricks might fit together - with several studs from the binding molecule slotting into, and so blocking, the sites on a toxin molecule which are needed to cause damage."
Patent Violation (Score:5, Funny)
Dang microscopic kids! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ho Hum... (Score:5, Funny)
KFG
Cellular peptide cake (Score:2, Funny)
Like putting too many legos in a balloon! (Score:5, Funny)
Fry: Well, usually on the show someone would come up with a complicated plan then explain it with a simple analogy.
Leela: Hmm. If we can reroute engine power through the primary weapons and reconfigure them to Melllvar's frequency that should overload his electro-quantum structure.
Bender: Like putting too much air in a ballon!
Re:Ho Hum... (Score:3, Funny)
Oh boy, here goes the movie.
First were the websites. Then the crops. Now, they come for your BLOOD.
ATTACK OF THE KILLER PATENT VAMPIRES.
"This time there's no escape"
You just said Lego to make me read it! (Score:3, Funny)
I can see it now... (Score:3, Funny)
Sweet. Analog version of Folding @ Home (Score:4, Funny)
Monsanto, here we come!
Obligatory Lego funding report (Score:1, Funny)
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Thin 2x2's - $52,193.31
Fat 3x1's - $19,493.95
Spinners - $49,128.59
Folders - $23,485.20
1x1 blue see-through squares - $6,921.10
Damage due to separating pieces apart with teeth - $4,129.04
(-1 offtopic, but it was worth it!)
Re:Ho Hum... (Score:3, Funny)
Better yet, wait until the next Atkins-like fad hits after some clever nutritionist "discovers" that foods which are high in protein are also high in "peptides"... miraculous molecules that can help protect against anthrax, provide increased energy, and help the body heal.
Re:Ho Hum... (Score:4, Funny)
I have but three serious perturbations: people who stand in the way of scientific progress, the use of logical fallacies, and carnies (you know, circus folk. very small hands. smell like cabbage.)
With that in mind, I only now noticed your sig. Your violation of my first personal peeve is somewhat rectified by your support of my second. If I had seen it earlier, I may have formed my reply using more flowery prose. You have been added to my "friends" list. Unless, of course, you are a carnie.
Besides, this is the internet. Civil discourse hasn't been here since the early 1990s.