holy shit i was already long biotech but this is this is something else. kinda floored. not even sure what one would use it for but the engineering is unreal how even what https://twitter.com/halvorz/status/1420837699749965825 …
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eigenrobot Retweeted NLRG Loves Recursive Guises
I don't have any idea what one would do with this technology because it never even occurred to me that it was possible to do thishttps://twitter.com/NLRG_/status/1420952568386232321?s=19 …
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blah blah information storage who cares ok so heres whats up these are DNA polymerases a DNA polymerase is an enzyme (complex? I havent studied this in like fifteen years). what it does basically is it copies strands of dna https://twitter.com/postpostpostr/status/1420953150849228802?s=19 …pic.twitter.com/bbWjaq9Afy
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all the DNA that operates in your body is whats called "D-DNA" D for "dexter" ie right-handed basically its coiled in a specific direction, ie from a standard axis it coils "right" as far as i know all DNA in living creatures is D-DNA
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its often the case in organic chemistry and biology that a molecule will be "chiral" ie "handed" the basic idea is that if you were to take a mirror image of a chiral molecule and superimpose it on the opposite mirror image they wouldnt match uphttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality
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this is boring as hell but it has a lot of implications for biochemistry. among other things because enzymes in your body operate in three dimensions, typically only one version of a molecule will be produced in a given enzymatic reaction
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this is why for example it would be very difficult for me to synthesize cocaine in my crawlspace. cocaine is not a complicated molecule but its super-chiral and unless I used enzymes to make it most of the cocaine produced wouldnt actually work in my bodypic.twitter.com/ZDF15oMIvI
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but because the cocoa plant uses enzymes to make cocaine in a specific 3D way all of the cocaine in its leaves is "bioactive", ie when you take a line off a strippers ass 100% of it will match up with various 3D receptors in your brain
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I feel so confident that you could have made this exact point without using a harmful stereotype about sex workers
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im fine with sex work and drugs alike and clients do in fact often want to use drugs with sex workers. im not sure what you see as harmful here
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