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2010-01-03 Science & Technology

'Lifeless' prion proteins are 'capable of evolution'

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Posted by tipper 2010-01-03 00:36|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The results of "collegiality" being the prime factor in granting tenure nowadays.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-01-03 01:56|| 2010-01-03 01:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Scary. No DNA, no RNA, but they reproduce. Now they've been found to evolve. Zombies hardest hit (due to their brain-eating obsession.)

Posted by Free Radical 2010-01-03 06:15|| 2010-01-03 06:15|| Front Page Top

#3 [snork]
Prions commented on by 'free radical'!
[snork][snork]
geek joke

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2010-01-03 11:19|| 2010-01-03 11:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Hey people who couldn't cut it doing ~~climatology research~~ AGW religion needed to get a gig somewhere...

Posted by M. Murcek 2010-01-03 12:27|| 2010-01-03 12:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Yet a fetus is disposable as "non-life" by many of these same people.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-01-03 14:17|| 2010-01-03 14:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Interesting isn't it OS, when a tragic car accident or some other calamaity takes the life of an expectant mother, the media reponds with... "doctors were able to save the unborn baby, or the unborn baby was lost as well." I never could really sort those terms of reference out.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-03 14:21|| 2010-01-03 14:21|| Front Page Top

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