Armatus

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bio	website	youtube.com/user/Arm0ry
	location	London, UK / Stuttgart, Germany
	age	22
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Studying BSc Biomedical Science at Imperial College London.

I have several years worth of experience in

web development (HTML, PHP, CSS, JS, SQL; both raw and using frameworks jQuery and Smarty)

and programming (Windows/C++, Android/Java, Flash/AS3)

as well as some hobbyist experience in design (Inkscape, GIMP, Autodesk 3D).

Active member of the London Hackspace Biohackers whenever time permits; I also love tweaking and meddling but rarely find the time these days (in other words, hacking). Also, laptops don't permit for meddling a lot unfortunately.

	3,404 reputation	bio	website	youtube.com/user/Arm0ry	visits	member for	1 year
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May 15	revised	Why aren't organelles considered alive? added 33 characters in body
May 15	comment	Why aren't organelles considered alive? So very much alike viruses in regards to their being alive or not then. Thanks :)
May 15	comment	What molecules/elements/compounds are in the cardiovascular system? On a broad scale, the same molecules as everywhere else in the body: lipids, carbohydrates, proteins and in much smaller quantities micronutrients such as minerals and vitamins. Blood itself of course is rich in glucose, as well as iron and oxygen or carbondioxide (due to red blood cells).
May 15	comment	If Evolution Is In Progress, Why Fight Extinction? @GoodGravy True, but as I said I think the relevant difference is the extent of manipulation, which is vast for humans. Aside from that, I think it boils down to fear of change.
May 15	comment	Why aren't organelles considered alive? Which genes exactly are you referring to? As far as I'm aware, mitochondria (I don't know about plastids) replicate their genome themselves and perform a process similar to binary fission themselves as well; but under regulation of the "host" cell.
May 15	comment	If Evolution Is In Progress, Why Fight Extinction? Again, invasion may also happen in nature and we are not trying to prevent invasion itself. We are trying to prevent invasion caused (directly or indirectly) by humans, again because we cannot determine the effects it may possibly have on the invaded ecosystems and hence we try to avoid potential problems. The whole idea is that we want to prevent a nature that evolved based on human manipulations.
May 15	answered	Why aren't organelles considered alive?
May 14	comment	If Evolution Is In Progress, Why Fight Extinction? Yes, hence why they're trying to contain invasive species, or at least protect those species they're threatening. Same reason goes for containment of genetically engineered organisms as well.
May 14	comment	If Evolution Is In Progress, Why Fight Extinction? We're not trying to prevent extinction - species go extinct all the time. We're trying to prevent extinction caused by man. One of the big things that sets us apart from other species is how massively we manipulate the environment we live in. Some of those manipulations have a high destructive potential, and we do not understand ecosystems well enough to confidently say that destruction of species caused by us would go without lasting effects that we'd rather avoid.
May 13	comment	Breeding laboratory mice with cancer; how does this work? I could imagine a) they inject a few cancer cells from an in vitro culture which, being cancer cells, find a niche to proliferate; or b) the genes causing the cancer type are known and they produce a local knockout/knockin/knockdown in order to get the cancer started.
May 12	answered	DNA replication Okazaki fragments
May 12	revised	Is it possible for a person to become “reinfected” with the same strain of a virus? added 1107 characters in body
May 12	comment	Is it possible to print humans? Any biomaterial scientist working on bone will read this and just think "I wish..." :)
May 12	answered	Is it possible for a person to become “reinfected” with the same strain of a virus?
May 8	comment	Why does blood come from mouth when people are shot in the chest area? Here you go, there's many more nice pictures where that came from :)
May 8	revised	Why does blood come from mouth when people are shot in the chest area? reference
May 7	comment	How does the immune system “learn” from a vaccine? I think there is some misinformation here. As far as I am aware, the point of memory B cells is that they are able to activate without T helper contact, solely based on pathogen contact. Surely if they required T helper contact, the memory response would barely be faster than the initial one.
May 6	answered	Why does blood come from mouth when people are shot in the chest area?
May 2	revised	What is the use of futile reaction cycling such as Fruc-P to Fruc-BP? added 3 characters in body
May 2	comment	What is the use of futile reaction cycling such as Fruc-P to Fruc-BP? I'd like to note that I have known the reason before, and I'm almost certain I have it somewhere in my material from last year - I just realised that I couldn't explain it to someone right now and I believe this question would be a valuable addition to our site. I am currently busy, but will answer it myself once I am free (unless someone else does beforehand).