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| bio | website | youtube.com/user/Arm0ry |
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| location | London, UK / Stuttgart, Germany | |
| age | 22 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year |
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| stats | profile views | 43 |
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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Mar 28 |
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Can mammals from different species reproduce? It's not a "percentage similarity" that's needed - it's a compatibility of the sperm's attachment mechanisms and what attachment sites the ovum provides. If all the fusion machinery is compatible, a viable embryo should be able to form, so strictly it should be possible for the rest of the genome to be entirely different. Although of course the higher the overall similarity, the more likely it is the fusion machinery will be compatible. |
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Mar 28 |
reviewed | Reviewed what's an ethics-friendly way to measure the protocol of electric shocking mice? |
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Mar 27 |
awarded | Custodian |
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Mar 27 |
reviewed | Reviewed What is a simple protocol for staining cells in suspension? |
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Mar 27 |
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What is a simple protocol for staining cells in suspension? That's probably part of his question ;) |
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Mar 25 |
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Why do some people find vegetables so repellent when evolutionarily they should find them an attractive and thus tasty food? While I'm flattered that you accepted my answer already, I would suggest that you leave it open for a bit longer to encourage other people to give their answers. My answer was not a very good answer in the sense that it's only reasoning and not drawing upon any reliable sources :) |
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Mar 25 |
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Why do some people find vegetables so repellent when evolutionarily they should find them an attractive and thus tasty food? Attractiveness is a cultural value - it wasn't long ago (only a few hundred years) that the ideal figure was actually everything else than slim. Have a look at depictions of beautiful women and men in art throughout the centuries (e.g. in the antique god/esses of beauty, or paintings of literary figures which are supposed to be beautiful). Healthiness also depends on context. As I said, today what we consider healthy are things that sustain a healthy body for a long life. Not long ago, what was healthy were things that sustain life at all. |
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Mar 25 |
answered | Why do some people find vegetables so repellent when evolutionarily they should find them an attractive and thus tasty food? |
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Mar 23 |
answered | What controls the breast size? |
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Mar 20 |
reviewed | Close Specific enzyme for C. elegans |
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Mar 19 |
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Why does sexual selection evolve beautiful features? In regards to the "beautiful features" part, your Q2, Dan Dennett explains the issue well here: ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_cute_sexy_sweet_funny.html |
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Mar 19 |
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Why does sexual selection evolve beautiful features? Hey! Welcome to Bio.SE :) This is certainly a good question. However, it requires a very broad explanation of how sexual selection works, so it seems unlikely that you will get a full answer that clears all of this up. It would probably be a good idea to read the Wikipedia article and see if that makes the issue more understandable to you. If you have any more specific question then, pleasea do ask here! |
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Mar 18 |
reviewed | Close Is there a future for fisheries? |
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Mar 12 |
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Growth kinetics of E.coli on media containing lactose and casein presentation makes half the impression |
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Mar 12 |
awarded | Custodian |
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Mar 11 |
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What metabolite intermediate will accumulate in a mammalian cell-free extracts capable of glycolysis if lactate dehydrogenase is inhibited? Btw since the reaction is only a single electron movement, I think there might not be any intermediate? But as said above, chemistry knowledge like this might be limited on this site (mine definitely is). |
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Mar 11 |
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What metabolite intermediate will accumulate in a mammalian cell-free extracts capable of glycolysis if lactate dehydrogenase is inhibited? While the topic is certainly a biomolecule, I would argue that the actual required knowledge to answer this is more likely to be found on Chemistry.SE. |
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Mar 11 |
answered | What is a “tool strain”? |
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Mar 11 |
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What is a “tool strain”? It would be helpful if you could quote a section from the instructions to that software because such terms tend to depend on context. |
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Mar 8 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Can IVF decrease the probability of trisomy in the fetuses of older mothers? |
