Bitch shape attack

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• Gorilladrums@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I will forever choose to die on the hill that tumblr humor is not funny

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  • match@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    then die

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Viruses are nanomachines.

  Change my mind.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    they’re not so much machines and more blueprints that makes the machine that’s already there do different stuff.

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  • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Frankly, all life and life-adjacent things on this planet are either nanomachines or scalable nanomachines.

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    • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      One might call those scaled up nanomachines “machines”.

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• qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pretty sure those “horrible little scalawags” play some pretty crucial roles in the human microbiome…

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  • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In the same way that the mafia plays a crucial role in the Italian mafia government. They’re still a bunch of dicks, even if they’re working for us. Move ‘em 2 millimeters in the wrong direction and you’ll have a bad time

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m actually interested, is this true?

      When bacteria were first discovered, people found them in the gut and thought “oh, that’s horrible. bacteria cause diseases, so we must get rid of them.” it was only found out much later that bacteria in the gut can improve health on average.

      the same is true for many other categories of living beings, such as insects (worms), fungi; and now my question is whether it could be the same for viruses?

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    • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Move ‘em 2 millimeters in the wrong direction and you’ll have a bad time

      Are you referring to getting, I dunno, yogurt in places outside the digestive tract?

      My understanding was that gut bacteria play a pretty crucial (beneficial) role in overall health, not to mention the whole gut-brain stuff.

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• cmbabul@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Go back to where you were born, go back to nothing, homunculus”

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• deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One of the theories how organisms switched from RNA to DNA is due to viruses. Viruses have a pretty wild range of their genetic diversity. Single strand DNA, double strand DNA, positive sense single strand RNA, negative sense single strand RNA, double strand RNA. We’ve also probably got viruses as a permanent part of our genome from some ancestor species.

  I think they’re pretty cool. Also, they do respond to outside stimuli, otherwise they’d be completely inert.

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  • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We’ve also probably got viruses as a permanent part of our genome from some ancestor species.

    We definitely have viruses as a permanent part of our genome. A type of herpes virus is present in the DNA of all living things descended from bony fishes

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    • kadup@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Mammals wouldn’t have a chorioallantoic placenta at all if not for a virus integrated into our genome. Mapping when in evolution the genes responsible for placental development was my first participation in scientific research, so I love this topic.

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also, they do respond to outside stimuli, otherwise they’d be completely inert.

    Do they actually respond? Or is it the external stimuli responding to them?

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    • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They respond because they have to do things like inject the DNA into the organism once it latches on to whatever on the cell surface. That doesn’t occur in the host, it occurs in the virus.

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• TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who’s going to tell them about prions?

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re like an origami figure folded wrongly that causes any properly folded origami figures to become misfolded when it comes in contact with them.

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  • Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fucking prions. When I first learned about them in high school they really made me freak out. They are like the new game+ final boss of things fucking with things. Like how can they even infect other things, fucking mangled and misfolded looking ass

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    • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Definitely don’t think about the overpopulation of deer, the spread of CWD, the fact that deer are commonly found in corn fields, the US loves corn, and the plants can take up prions from the soil.

      That interspecies barrier seems like it’s the only thing between us and a huge disaster.

      …umn.edu/…/plants-can-take-cwd-causing-prions-soi…

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