Recent content by gravenewworld

What can the experts decipher on this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.03486.pdf Is this going to win a million dollars? EDIT: The punchline is P =/= NP

Thanks for this response Greg, if more posters posted with this same civility and politeness I think it would go a long way to re-establishing my faith in the forums. Why do I visit less often you ask? Well mostly it is because of lack of interesting topics being discussed (not PF's fault...

Go ahead and look at my profile, I've been around here for over 10+ years. Increasingly I find myself checking PF less and less. We've lost wildly popular and famous posters over the years. Why is this happening? Is it just me or does there seem to be less and less traffic on PF? I remember...

I do not understand the appeal of Hillary at all. She is the biggest phony of all time and won't hesitate to sell herself out at all if it is what the audience wants to hear or if it will get her votes (fake southern accents anyone?). How would she sell out the country then if she were in...

SPSS, MATLAB, R, but you'll see a TON of GraphPad Prism. It is very easy to use and is pretty much written by scientists for scientists.

Hogwash. I have a degree in math, chemistry and am near completion o a Phd in engineering. I basically do biochemistry and molecular biology all day now, and biology is insanely hard. Trying to do a coIP in a repeatable manner was harder than any differential equation, graph theory proof...

We've sent premeds from our lab to medical schools like Stanford and Dartmouth and I have NO IDEA how some of them made it into those schools. These are the same students that couldn't even calcate how to dilute a 100 mm stock solution of a drug to 25 micromolar in 20 ml of media. Or other...

Doing science 'for the love of it' gets extremely old when you're approaching 40 years old, have little saved, still have student loan debt to pay off, and are still a post-doc hoping and praying for a faculty position that doesn't exist. Tons of scientists are employed in healthcare or...

You should look up the theory of allosteric modulators...which is absolutely fascinating in my opinion. Allosteric modulators, in theory, have a built in cap for the limit of the their activity, which is quite different than agonists or antagonists (the more you give, the more response you...

Analytical chemistry, bioanalytical, and mass spectrometry. People who know how to run UPLC/HPLC couple to MS or MS/MS or MS^X and know how to analyze the results are in demand. Organic synthesis has quite horrible employment prospects and is a dying field (pharma has been shipping jobs...

BME grad student here--we're just glorified biologists that know how to solve a few differential equations. Our job prospects are OK, but not amazing like some of the other engineering disciplines. IMO, you're in for a difficult job search with just a BME BS. A lot of our undergrads either go...

Here's a job posting I came across for those that want to do Med Physics: https://hrnt.jhu.edu/jhujobs/job_view.cfm?view_req_id=66945&view=sch Nice salary to boot.

It has long been observed that metabolism changes with seasons. The O-glcnac modification directly descends from glucose metabolism and is involved in writing almost every aspect of your epigenetic code, many other important gene regulatory processes, and internal clocks: O-glcnac is invovled...

I keep hearing people in the media talk about fixing errors in the genes for Huntington’s disease or cystic fibrosis in human embryos, but why wouldn’t you instead just screen for embryos without the disease-causing mutations? It is easier and probably far cheaper. I do see therapeutic...

Metabolism, metabolism, metabolism... Genetic and protein expression changes are often the main focus of study, but gene expression and even protein expression may not (and many times this is the case) correlate at all with how a protein actually is physiologically behaving. Many events, such...