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« on: September 29, 2004, 12:12:26 PM »
hi n welcome! i played AD&D for years and some Vampire TM, too... i also tried a few LARP sessions (vampire live action roll play) but it was too boring. have you ever played UO? (ultima online) www.uo.com
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« on: September 19, 2004, 12:10:11 PM »
thank U ^^ r u online 24/7? omg, u're one of those geeks! LOL, duh 
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« on: September 19, 2004, 12:05:18 PM »
question: don't u get 100 loot for posting you pic @ the img gallery? i did that yesterday, but didn't get any loot 
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« on: September 19, 2004, 12:01:31 PM »
my msn is mortaerex@hotmail.com i connect very little, though - sometimes only a few hours once a week (i need more tiiiiiiime)
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« on: September 19, 2004, 11:40:29 AM »
yes, the virus actualy acts kind of like a BC gene...
HERV means human endogenous retrovirus - that's any virus that infected some time ago (up to 30-60 million years) our forfathers' sperm/egg and resided there (inserted in the DNA) inactive. his/her child had now the virus' genetic information included in his own DNA (thus endogenous)... in every single cell.
There are many known HERV's, forming up to 1%-8% of our DNA. most of them (almost 100%) are still inactive and defective by now (through mutations, insertions, etc) - but it seems that there are little chances of some becoming active.
The problem is when the virus (or some functional gene) is inserted near to one of our genes. If the promotor (promotor is before the gene and starts the gene's transcription, to produce a protein) is activated, the transcription could include the gene next to it, too... or part of it.
So, if it is near, say a growth factor gene or a "DNA mutations fixing" gene or...... well, you can imagine the rest.
What are the chances of a virus' gene/s inserting into "that" place?
very low - but don't forget the viruses replicate 1000's of times PER infected cell!
this is just one way for a virus to cause cancer...
there is little known (yet) about HML-6, but you'll find a lot of info looking for MMTV (mouse mamary tumor virus) wich has been studied much because it's easy (using mice) - HML is named after MMTV (human MMTV like), so it's of great use to us
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« on: September 19, 2004, 10:56:33 AM »
Breast cancer in women, Dan (yes, there are breast cancers in men, too - they represent less than 1%, though)
I hoped to find a relatin between th BC and a virus (HERV-K, HML-6); still need some final results i'm working on when i have the time for it.
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« on: September 18, 2004, 06:09:18 PM »
What are your other 5 languages?
Welcome. thanx it's not 5 yet... german, spanish, english, portuguese i took one year french, too, but i didn't (and still don't) like it much. next one i want to learn is italian - i just don't like learning any language taking lessons... hopefuly i can live (someday) for one or two years in italy to learn it. even without the language, italy is a beautyful country incredibly rich in arts - if you could build a roof over italy, you'd have the largest museum 
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« on: September 18, 2004, 12:03:40 PM »
of course, Nate.
i played for 2.5 years on some sphere servers and since this august i'm playing on OSI's Europa shard. I also have one char on legends...
My main char (in ANY game, on- or offline) is always Mortae Rex, and he´s (if possible) a mage or necromancer or whatever undead :[
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« on: September 18, 2004, 11:59:08 AM »
I'm a 37 year old geek trying to break into the biotech industry. I'm a finance/IT guy though. Who do you work for? cool - what are your plans? working as a biotechnologist (in a lab, etc)? or get the knowledge to work better in a team with biotechnologists? or... ? the project i'm doing now is for a beer brewery in mexico, where i've been living for the last few years.
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« on: September 18, 2004, 11:53:03 AM »
thank you, thank you.. 'bout the grammar geeks - sorry guys, i'm too lazy to capitalize and sometimes i even change words or letters (like in spanish "qu" for "k"). plus, english is my third language, so "i" make many mistakes i forgot to mention some of my hobbies: reading, gaming, RPG, anything with vampires, movies!
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« on: September 17, 2004, 08:49:39 PM »
lol by the title, i mean my age... seems like most geeks around are teens... i'm like, twice a teen turning 30 in december. i'm a biologist, studying a Ms.C. in biotechnology - used to work in molecular genetics (cancer research) but now i'm doing a borying project with Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) most of my spare time, i spend at the PC... first computer used was a comodore C64 - first computer owned (and the one i loved the most - yes, i mean LOVE) was an Atari ST 256 upgraded to 1024 (yup, that's in all cases the max ram in Kb) 1990 we switched to "ibm compatibles" aka PC. now i have a desktop PC (self made, of course) and i'm waiting for the arrival of my new powerbook G4 12" hopefuly this sunday  there's actualy a lot about me i could tell (like the longest i've lived in one country is 7 years) but i don't wanna bore everyone... i'm not realy old yet, anyway, HI everyone, hope to read you soon...
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« on: September 17, 2004, 08:26:26 PM »
Hi have you seen the movie "The first $20 million is always the hardest"? if not, pleaaaase read the book first! (autor: Po Bronson) it's such a good book and such a baaaad movie, i could cry. anyway, in the movie, one of these geeks uses a laptop carrying bag with straps, so it hangs kind of like a bagpack, but at this front side. to use the laptop, he doesn't need to take it off - just fold open the bag - and the laptop kindda hangs from his neck or shoulders, perpendicular to his chest. anyone has seen those in real life? i'd love to have one of these!!! Btw: i saw a thread from somebody into genetics... i'm a biologist, studying a Ms.C. in Biotechnology - ready for anything about "geeknetics"
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