>do well in actual /sci/ related courses >do mediocre in

>>8763645
Werner von Braun similarly did well in his technical and science classes, and poorly elsewhere, and he got to be a Nazi and build moon rockets, and had all the pussy he could use.

So do not despair.

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Picture a tablet that you can fold into the size of a phone and put away in your pocket, or an artificial skin that can sense your body's movements and vital signs. A new, inexpensive sensor developed at the University of British Columbia could help make advanced devices like these a reality.

The sensor uses a highly conductive gel sandwiched between layers of silicone that can detect different types of touch, including swiping and tapping, even when it is stretched, folded or bent. This feature makes it suited for foldable devices of the future.

"There are sensors that can detect pressure, such as the iPhone's 3D Touch, and some that can detect a hovering finger, like Samsung's AirView. There are also sensors that are foldable, transparent and stretchable. Our contribution is a device that combines all those functions in one compact package," said researcher Mirza Saquib Sarwar, a PhD student in electrical and computer engineering at UBC.

The prototype, described in a recent paper in Science Advances, measures 5 cm x 5 cm but could be easily scaled up as it uses inexpensive, widely available materials, including the gel and silicone.

"It's entirely possible to make a room-sized version of this sensor for just dollars per square metre, and then put sensors on the wall, on the floor, or over the surface of the body -- almost anything that requires a transparent, stretchable touch screen," said Sarwar. "And because it's cheap to manufacture, it could be embedded cost-effectively in disposable wearables like health monitors."

The sensor could also be integrated in robotic "skins" to make human-robot interactions safer, added John Madden, Sarwar's supervisor and a professor in UBC's faculty of applied science.

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Researchers at the University of Alberta have developed a new method of controlling biology at the cellular level using light.

The tool -- called a photocleavable protein -- breaks into two pieces when exposed to light, allowing scientists to study and manipulate activity inside cells in new and different ways.

First, scientists use the photocleavable protein to link cellular proteins to inhibitors, preventing the cellular proteins from performing their usual function. This process is known as caging.

"By shining light into the cell, we can cause the photocleavable protein to break, removing the inhibitor and uncaging the protein within the cell," said lead author Robert Campbell, professor in the Department of Chemistry. Once the protein is uncaged, it can start to perform its normal function inside the cell.

The tool is relatively easy to use and widely applicable for other research that involves controlling processes inside a cell.

The power of light-sensitive proteins, Campbell explained, is that they can be used to study the inner workings of any living cell. For example, optogenetic tools are widely used to activate brain activity in mice.

"We could use the photocleavable protein to study single bacteria, yeast, human cells in the lab or even whole animals such as zebrafish or mice," explained Campbell. "To put these proteins inside an animal, we simply splice the gene for the protein into DNA and insert it into the cells using established techniques."

The gene for the photocleavable will be made available on Addgene, providing access to other researchers and scientists.

http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmeth.4222.html

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It's a good thing we don't have to think about putting all the necessary pieces in place when one of our trillions of cells needs to duplicate its DNA and then divide to produce identical daughter cells.

We'd never be able to get it right. The process is so complex, calling for the orchestration of over a hundred highly specialized proteins, each of which must play its part at precisely the right moment and in the proper spatial orientation. It has often been compared to an exquisitely choreographed molecular dance. The smallest errors, left uncorrected, can have deadly consequences. It is essential that the genome replicates once and only once during each cell-division cycle.

In the journal eLife, a team of biologists co-led by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor and HHMI Investigator Leemor Joshua-Tor and CSHL President and Professor Bruce Stillman has published pictures at atomic resolution of the multi-part protein complex that performs the very first step in the genome-replication dance. The images of the human version of this complex, called ORC -- for origin recognition complex -- show it in its active mode.

ORC complexes self-assemble in the cell nucleus and bind at specific spots called start sites or origins along the double helix in chromosomes. In human cells, ORC assembles at literally thousands of origin sites across the entire genome, to form an initial configuration called the pre-replication complex, or pre-RC. Once assembled, these pre-RCs are like highly prepared Olympic swimmers standing on the starting block, waiting for the signal to start the race.

https://elifesciences.org/content/6/e20818

>>8763653
Source?

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>>8763663
Reading this at the moment...

I am at the pount where he is living in the US, just got married and had a born again conversion experience, so presumably the "all the pussy he could use" part is over, or at least the amount of pussy he could use dropped to one.

>>8763669
just 1 pussy? shit man, that's weak

maladapted human
maladaptation = lack of intelligence

>>8763943
Be fair, he was up to his ass in pussy before that. Whatever "poon-hound" is in German, he was that.

>>8763645
>Be norwegian
>Norwegian, as a subject, is split into oral, written and nynorsk, the shitty spinoff language
>All three are graded and count for GPA
>Literally literature analysis/history is weighted at 3 times the value of math

So glad to be in a uni where I can do pure /sci/

>>8763645
>can't communicate feelings except through memes
>is still somehow curious why he's failing his English class

If you're so smart why are you failing those classes? Maybe it's time to admit you are shit at something and need to work on it?

humanities classes were the easiest A's you are an idiot and need to take harder science classes

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