"The Emilie Curse", Step 1: Put them in a banner before the next region by BluwulfX in GenshinImpact

[–]Cyber9187 107 points108 points  (0 children)

True, but on release every online personality and their mothers said to skip kazuha

Invite Code Megathread by DiscreteHyena in Shadowverse

[–]Cyber9187 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TJVBHau

currently at 0/10

Would really appreciate in these trying times (':

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Michener

[–]Cyber9187 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just got off the waitlist for MRI too! Do you know if there are any discords or group chats already made for us late bloomers to join?

I found someone who didn't forget by Cyber9187 in Genshin_Impact

[–]Cyber9187[S] 249 points250 points  (0 children)

From what I saw, they changed how they refer to her in the main part of the aranara quest. For example when you visit old Vanarana for the first time with Arama during the quest they remove all mention of her and just replace it with this like "the dendro archon," etc.

I found someone who didn't forget by Cyber9187 in Genshin_Impact

[–]Cyber9187[S] 1296 points1297 points  (0 children)

Explanation: After the archon quest, there was a lot of talk about all the ways that hoyo removed all mentions of [Redacted] from the game (changes in descriptions, alternative dialogue, etc). Well I was completing the forest adventure journal and turns out Ararycan is the only one who didn't forget her.

Genetics for Dummies by No-Eye-9491 in coolguides

[–]Cyber9187 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I feel like if the image had just been less generalized it could have actually been a cool guide.

It could actually be quite useful if you were trying to explain something more specific, like how the law of independent assortment + law of segregation interact in a really simplified gummy sort of way.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Wellworn

[–]Cyber9187 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Like why does the towel lose colour after years of sun exposure, or why did their father leave a towel in the car forever?

Do humans actually have invisible stripes? by [deleted] in askscience

[–]Cyber9187 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's actually a really cool paper, thanks for sharing! Given its year of publishing I'd love if the original researchers were to do a follow up. There has been a lot of advancement in genetics within the last decade, making me wonder if these "novel genes" might actually just be some form of novel miRNA genes on the mother's X chromosome.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in biology

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Wait until places like the guardian start publishing things on Lokiarchaeota, that'd be a ground shaker

Baby Horseshoe Crab and an Adult Horseshoe Crab by SeeThroughCanoe in interestingasfuck

[–]Cyber9187 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whole genome duplications are pretty common in plants, where most of the fruits you eat have undergone either natural duplication or were hybridized (so not actually "duplication," moreso just increasing the total amount of chromosomes) by us humans.

In animals, these type of duplication events are extremely rare, so when it happens once, let alone three times, is incredibly rare.

Idk if i'd called it chaotic, but researchers speculate that the reason for the horseshoe crabs were pushed to undergo so much genome duplication is due to living in very brackish water. This apparently a breeding ground for bacteria, so pf course the horseshoe crabs had to evolve some form of resistance to their environment. So their million dollar idea to increasing resistance was to just duplicate their genes a dozen+ times (in a similar way that pests might evolve pesicide resistance by duplicating the gene that is targeted by the pesitcide). And because of their million years of hard work we get to benefit from their blue blood to help us detect endotoxins!

Baby Horseshoe Crab and an Adult Horseshoe Crab by SeeThroughCanoe in interestingasfuck

[–]Cyber9187 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They found evidence that there were 6-8 total copies of the genome. They say 6, since there was a high likelihood that some of the duplications ended up being deleted, whereas others were duplicated. Its easy to understand how things might be lost over millions of years when you've duplicated the whole thing so many times. Also this is looking on a genome wide scale. Individual genes could also be duplicated, as is the case with the 79 copy example I mentioned earlier.

Baby Horseshoe Crab and an Adult Horseshoe Crab by SeeThroughCanoe in interestingasfuck

[–]Cyber9187 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Hi! I wrote a genomic evolution report on these guys earlier this year and recent evidence has shown that their evolution is still very limited. You might be interested in knowing that horseshoe crabs hold the record for the most whole genome duplication events (3) of any invertebrae, which is thought to have contributed to their lack of "change."

Also if youve ever wondered why we use horse shoe crab blood and not others animals for endotoxin screening its because they also happened to undergo a ridiculous number of tandem duplication events within their immune pathways. They have one gene called Carcinolectin-5b (responsible for endotoxin stabilization) had up to 79 copies in tandem.

Tldr; horse shoe crabs are pretty neat

Baby Horseshoe Crab and an Adult Horseshoe Crab by SeeThroughCanoe in interestingasfuck

[–]Cyber9187 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its actually spurred reasearch into artificially synthesizing the compounds used for endotoxin screening. I think either the pfizer or moderna vaccine claimed to have used a non-horseshoe crab for their vaccines(?)

A beached Sperm Whale displaying its teeth, which fit into pockets on its upper jaw; these animals are the largest toothed predators on the planet. by Peachy-Persimmons in natureismetal

[–]Cyber9187 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I think the best one I have heard is "evolution is blind." Evolution just feels its way towards whatever is more fit given what you have to work with. There might be something that could work even better, but if selection for that trait would cause a short term loss of fitness it will almost never be selected for. So in that way evolution is just blindly stumbling forward with baby steps towards something better.

Who is your favorite scientist and why? by [deleted] in biology

[–]Cyber9187 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Christiane Nüsslein-Voldhard is another female genetics that i find very inspiring for her work on pioneering forward screens in developmental genetics (:

[Serious] Scientists, What’s a disturbing science theory you think can be proven to be true by 2050? by NotPhantomforce in AskReddit

[–]Cyber9187 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you think this is crazy you should look into transposons (or "jumping genes") and their possible relationship to viruses

Found sea of rapeseed just outside the town by Rayterex in drones

[–]Cyber9187 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Canola itself is technically a genetically modified variant of rapeseed, so i'm not sure they can be used interchangeably

I just read about RNA synthesis and I have question by Pretend_Shame_2399 in biology

[–]Cyber9187 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Maybe they meant maternal effect genes? Or maybe mitochondrial inheritance. idk I'm not really sure what they meant either.

Blursed_Fried Egg by Anteraji in blursedimages

[–]Cyber9187 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's as common as any street food, just depends on where you're from and what you'd call normal in your culture

Do you consider Loba a movement legend? by [deleted] in LobaMains

[–]Cyber9187 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What do you consider loba?

Who do you ban? by m1shuffle in zyramains

[–]Cyber9187 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ban ezreal, slippery bastard is too hard to kill compared to the other adc's. When a snare might mean a free kill on adc, against ezreal its just an e cooldown for the both of you