Armatus

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bio	website	youtube.com/user/Arm0ry
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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.

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May 29	comment	How might I break down bread into glucose in a model of the human digestive system? <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amylase#.CE.B1-Amylase>: it breaks starch (amylose/amylopectin) into maltose and possibly glucose (amylase is the part of pancreatic juice that digests starch). I suppose you would try to dilute it as little as possible from how you buy it. I'm speculating though, I'm not sure how realistic it is to use amylase in your model.
May 28	revised	Do trees really get a large share of their mass from the carbon in the air? let's not mix up volume and mass here
May 28	comment	What is the similarity between how cells organize themselves to form a human and how humans organize themselves to form a society? Another good example: The heart beats on its own, nerves from the brain can only speed it up or down a little. The beats themselves are initiated by a group of nerve cells called the "SA node" (sinoatrial) in the right atrium of the heart.
May 28	comment	How might I break down bread into glucose in a model of the human digestive system? That depends on the concentration you use. I would aim for a ridiculously high concentration to try and get it done quickly. As for the resulting glucose-containing solution... I don't know, you could pump it out of the model stomach around the rest of the model?
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May 28	comment	How might I break down bread into glucose in a model of the human digestive system? If you just keep some bread crust in your mouth without chewing, it does become sweet at some point. You will just be waiting for quite some time... I spent a whole school day with bread crust in my mouth XD Adding the mechanical action might be hard in a model.
May 28	answered	How might I break down bread into glucose in a model of the human digestive system?
May 27	awarded	Enthusiast
May 25	comment	Productive turnover and generations in the fruit fly Yup, and there's an excellent video on ted about that :) ted.com/talks/lang/en/…
May 24	asked	Macrophage pathogen fixation
May 24	revised	Skeletal muscle without antagonist deleted 14 characters in body
May 24	revised	Skeletal muscle without antagonist minor
May 24	comment	Productive turnover and generations in the fruit fly You would need a good explanation why you want to repeat the same experiment. And being famous has the advantage that people tend to give you access to things more willingly - and may not ask for as many explanations if you ask for things :)
May 24	comment	Skeletal muscle without antagonist Good point, of course everyone can decide what exactly the rule should be and adding conditions removes exceptions. But that's not really what my question was about :-)
May 23	asked	Skeletal muscle without antagonist
May 23	revised	Productive turnover and generations in the fruit fly added 239 characters in body
May 23	comment	Productive turnover and generations in the fruit fly I'm not aware of what experiment they carried out there so I wrote my answer trying to stay on the safe side, assuming that it was a full-out scientific project :) Of course, experimenting is well possible on a small scale especially with these little ones.
May 23	answered	Productive turnover and generations in the fruit fly
May 23	answered	Does becoming martyr have an evolutionary advantage?
May 23	comment	Does becoming martyr have an evolutionary advantage? Traits do not have to give an advantage, they can simply not bear significant enough of a disadvantage in survival of a common gene (/genetic group).