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My personal interest lies more in utilizing such technology to unravel how networks of nuerons encode and process information. The applications have a lot of potential, but until one understands this process most approaches depend on the networks rewiring themselves appropriately around the...

Gendanken, You're just as bad in my opinion as your attack posts are a big part of the reason profs do the stuff you don't like. Cut them some slack and they won't be so prickly either. It's not easy to have true mastery over such a large body of knowledge. That was part of my point in the...

www.nnf.cornell.edu/1999REU/ra/Siegel.pdf for some technical details. It was developed at schools like Cornell and Urbana-Champaign

Except in a textbook I'm sure there was much more background and contextualization that makes exactly what those things are and why it's relevant to something like the "eye brain metaphor". I think the phraseology you used didn't so much indicate that you hoped anyone should understand it...

If you'll be more specific about what your interests are I'm more than happy to try to point you in the right direction or give more advice.

I think the "pretty standard stuff" and "textbook level science" comments were uncalled for. Escpecially since developmental biology isn't necessarily a requirement for people who have graduated college. Which means even if it is standard and textbook level many people would have never heard...

I agree with what spuriousmonkey posted, but have some other stuff to say - What is likely to be more industrially in demand is molecular genetics. The truly cutting edge stuff in this field is moving closer to molecular modeling driven by the need to synthesize all the information into...

I think spurious monkeys post got to the point, it is a mix of tissues that are essentially skin and brain. Just what you'd want to do. Make an organ that is part skin and part brain. The nerves in the eye do a lot of signal processing to sharpen edges etc. so you want it to be very...

WCfetus, I agree that the mutation rate would be at a low level that is by and large non-consequential. I never meant to say otherwise, but make the point that there were likely to be cases more susceptible to it. I wasn't offended or intimidated, so much as surprised by your repeated posts...

If you want look up Elowitz M on pubmed, it was in a talk he gave. He was giving a talk on noise in transcription, which is obviously highest when dealing with low copy numbers where stochasticity leads to larger variance in levels. It was obviously an extreme case and I don't know where to...

Several dozen per hour is not a minimum by any means. Some mRNAs are present at a level of 1-2 copies per cell (according to a talk I attended given by Micheal Elowitz) and they do not have such short half lives that there are 12 made per hour (In fact I think numbers are more on the scale of...

I said I agreed to some extent and then gave compounding cases and examples where it was more of an issue. In the limiting case where there are few transcripts and defective transcripts have a significant effect may not be negligible. Indeed transciption and translation cycles are slower...

http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Books By far the best and most professional collection of biology texts I've found on the net. (accessibility of all texts is not equal and can be a bit frustrating though).

Fetus, I agree to some extent with that point, but defective copies could have serious effects in some cases. Some prematurely truncated molecules function as dominant negatives (meaning they block the function of the full length molecule). This is most often the case with proteins that...

The error rate of RNA polymerase is roughly 1E-5 (compared to for DNA polymerase 1E-9). An average transcript is shorter than 100,000 bp so there is less than an error per transcript. Given the redundancy of the genetic code at the third codon, nonstop mediated decay, and chaperone mediated...

There are two clear roles for the DNA that isn't transcribed (into mRNA). transcriptional regulation - ie non coding regions that are functional and control in which cells and at what time in those cells a specific gene is transcribed. These include enhancers (involved in turning on...

Dapthar, I didn't say that they had to have performed in all those fields, but simply "who studied and thought about many different fields". I did not question the greatness of those that did not, but simply highlight the fact that the act of doing so might help a person's mind reach...

Thanks ... most interesting discussions digress anyways.

I'd still be interested in any modern philosophers that write in English and give an intelligent review and integration of historical philosophy. It also never ceases to amaze me how a question can evoke such an unexpected line of discussion.

yinyinwang, I was assuming objective reference would be utilized, but there are frequently multiple explanations that are consistent with all the information one has. It's one thing to seek to grow as a person it's another thing to accept a responsibility one cannot fulfill. Quantum...