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Comment Re:Science Fiction Reality (Score 1) 157

Correction: last sentence should read:

" ...I can envision that in the relatively near future we would be able to embed sufficient angiogenesis-mediating factors into the ex-vivo grown tissues that under the right conditions they would generate a sufficient blood supply of their own in-situ. "

I honestly thought this was a joke response about the absurdity of the in-vivo angiogenetic-microphoroesis gel therocopmanders.

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Designing DNA Circuits To Brew Tastier Beer 135

Al writes "Researchers at Boston University have developed a way to predict the behavior of different DNA segments and make synthetic biology a little bit more reliable. James Collins and colleagues have built libraries of component parts and a mathematical modeling system to help them predict the behavior of parts of a gene network. Like any self-respected bunch of grad students, they decided to demonstrate the approach by making beer. They engineered gene promoters to control when flocculation occurs in brewers yeast, which allowed them to finely control the flavor of the resulting beer."

Comment Re:What if we just got rid of paging? (Score 2, Informative) 900

This is not a good idea. Paging enables all sorts of other behavior besides swapping, such as security and virtualized processes (the standard on all O/Ses). It also allows more esoteric things, like letting user applications use more of the address space, and paging hardware is really optimized, plus, compilers help make decisions to improve the use of the CPU's caching hardware. Paging is a good thing.

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