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JoshuaFH

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DNA folding
« on: May 16, 2009, 02:35:37 am »
Look at this interesting video I found:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/paul_rothemund_details_dna_folding.html

I love seeing cool stuff about new science.
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Yanlin

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Re: DNA folding
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2009, 05:22:00 am »
This shit is awesome. Go nanocomputers!
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Re: DNA folding
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2009, 05:33:39 am »
Related. Harnassing the power of bored young children to fold proteins at a rate you would need monsterous supercomputers to match.
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Re: DNA folding
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2009, 06:38:57 am »
Quote from: Darkone on May 16, 2009, 05:33:39 am
Related. Harnassing the power of bored young children to fold proteins at a rate you would need monsterous supercomputers to match.

That is genius.
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Re: DNA folding
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2009, 09:08:13 am »
Wow, this is awesome. I wonder how much more efficient they'll be, i guess you would need to feed your PC. Heh, awesome. But what if it got a virus :( It'd be properly sick.
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Re: DNA folding
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2009, 02:04:26 pm »
I wish i understood it all  :(
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Re: DNA folding
« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2009, 12:52:13 am »
Quote from: Nilocy on May 16, 2009, 09:08:13 am
Wow, this is awesome. I wonder how much more efficient they'll be, i guess you would need to feed your PC. Heh, awesome. But what if it got a virus :( It'd be properly sick.

No more than you feed it electricity and it gets sick with viruses now.

But then again, viruses would be far more devastating if they could literally kill your computer.
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Re: DNA folding
« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2009, 06:09:14 am »
Dunno, it would be pretty bad to have the computer sneeze all over you.
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Re: DNA folding
« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2009, 09:14:55 am »
Oooh... Realistic porn...
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Re: DNA folding
« Reply #9 on: May 17, 2009, 12:49:15 pm »
Wait what?
How did we get into this conversation!?!
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Re: DNA folding
« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2009, 12:29:09 am »
This is the internet.

Those are some damn interesting ideas but I don't see how feasible they are.
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