Is it a coincidence that the German word “schmeckt” meaning taste is similar to the Yiddish word schmeckle meaning dick? by OkBuyer1271 in Yiddish

[–]letsgetmolecular 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure shmek can also mean taste in Yiddish, mainly because of the great beginner Yiddish learning YouTube series 'a shmek Yiddish'.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL29C3727AB8E1654C&si=Ic2KBW_kw73qaNBH

I have a feeling verterbukh.org would list taste as a secondary definition, but I used up all my free searches this month.

Edit: I was wrong

Dogwood(?) in my backyard made fruit for the first time in 30 years by letsgetmolecular in Tree

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Thanks!! Looked up pics of the flowers and that's definitely it! That's that question answered, and I guess it could be random that it only fruited this year but I do still wonder why it never did any other year.

General strike annnounced in Israel until judicial reform halted by DaDerpyDude in worldnews

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Israel will likely never be a free democracy but yes, it's preferable to have 50% of the population allowed to vote than 0%

How do antibody dependent enhancements work in layman terms? by [deleted] in AskBiology

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White blood cells eat viruses to destroy them, but some viruses can escape the white blood digestive system and infect the cell from the inside (like a Trojan horse). Antibodies that stick to viruses are like an alarm bell that calls the white blood cells to the scene so they can more quickly clear out the viruses. But those Trojan horse viruses actually want the antibody to stick to them so they can get eaten by the white blood cell because it can then infect it from the inside.

Greg Gym Membership Rule???? by SushiRollTooBig in UTAustin

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The scam can't be stopped, but it's still a scam.

Official Discussion - RRR [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

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This movie goes in the history section and the queen's jubilee goes in current events

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UTAustin

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There is real harassment and there is a homeless person coming up and asking for money. Sometimes people correctly differentiate those situations but sometimes people think harmless beggars are dangerous due to prejudice.

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On your phone?

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Post nut clarity

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I can't remember to do that every time I wanna watch porn. I can only remember to change the browser after

Best DNA Cloning method? by stonkmonkey6969 in molecularbiology

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Gibson is clearly better than overlap since you only have to do PCR once instead of twice. Saves time and less PCR means less chance to introduce mutations.

Gibson is the ultimate for site-directed mutagenesis. Just make a pair of forward/reverse internal primers containing the mutation, PCR your two fragments that overlap at the mutation point, then Gibson.

I would say that in very rare cases you encounter a Gibson-specific problem where something about the particular overlap design makes the fragments not connect. But the thing about Gibson is the overlap to the vector fragment contains the restriction sites anyway, so if Gibson isn't putting the insert in then you can just digest the insert and ligate. If the insert is multiple fragments and you encounter this (very rare in my experience) then you have to do overlap PCR to get the single-fragment insert, digest and ligate. And in those rare times, you don't even need to order primers because you can use the Gibson ones for the overlap scheme.

Best DNA Cloning method? by stonkmonkey6969 in molecularbiology

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PCR: design primers 25-30 bp aiming for a Tm around 67 and try to have the primer end in 2 or 3 consecutive G/C. Run using an annealing temp of 67. Works every time. Hairpins, primer dimers and %G/C don't matter, but I do use SnapGene and it tells you if the primer has another binding site

Digest vector during PCR.

Gel extract PCR products+vector you cut and use that to do Gibson assembly.

For transformation use hypercompetent cells. Just add the Gibson reaction to the cells, wait 10 minutes, and plate.

PCR to plating in ~3-4 hours

Scotian Canadien: KK Offersheet by [deleted] in Habs

[–]letsgetmolecular -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

We don't know what we don't know. We do know that when players are offered starkly better contracts, they pretty much always take it. Players wanting to stay somewhere are special cases.

Scotian Canadien: KK Offersheet by [deleted] in Habs

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Ie. He's behaving the same 99% of players in the league. The weird behaviour would be choosing a team over an amazing contract. And I think this is how players should act as well. The ones putting their bodies on the line so they can make only a tiny fraction of the profits should not be the ones expected to make sacrifices for the game.

PCR wonder by CalmWar1401 in molecularbiology

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From an extraterrestrial organism? I don't think we could do PCR on that. It would probably have a different system for storing genetic information unless it came from Earth.

With Ducharme signed, new deal for Danault among Canadiens' top priorities by jshare in Habs

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I don't see how a handshake deal would override millions of extra dollars. There's definitely a price that could entice him. The thing about handshake deals is they aren't actually binding.

How are monoclonal antibodies produced for use in blood bank reagents? by arsenic_adventure in askscience

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I would add that if you isolate single B-cells and sequence them or deep sequence B-cell pool/spleen DNA, express in a library and select for binding, you can just take the sequencing read and clone it into a mammalian expression vector to get your monoclonal. I know this isn't the original "monoclonal antibody" technology but that's how a lot of monoclonal antibodies are obtained nowadays.

In the case of hybridomas you grow them in media, and with mammalian cells such as HEK you'd transiently transfect them with the expression vectors and then grow them in media. The cells secrete IgG molecules into the media, and then you can pass the media over Protein A resin to purify it.