Este 2 de septiembre tendrá lugar uno de los festival de música electrónica más importante de Costa Rica. El festival ONEIRO regresa con una segunda edición con la producción del colectivo “Electric Animals”. El evento se realizará en el Centro de Convenciones de Costa Rica, habrá más de 14 DJs y las entradas tendrán un precio desde los 38,400 Colones. ONEIRO es mucho más que un festival, es un…
Finally, it has begun!! The rainbow trout are all grown and it’s time to give them a little spin in the swimming respirometer. This girl was understandably pretty shocked about being measured and weighed but she quickly recovered once in the respirometer — the fish is swimming against a certain water flow (here it’s about half a body length per second) and she seemed to immediately realise what to do. My supervisor explained that in earlier experiments with brown trout, the brown trout were more prone to not swimming at all and laying on the net in the back, but rainbow trout are more cooperative and raring to go!
i think it's an immense fuckup in the timeline that we live in a world where the popular mainstream collector's item for various media is those soulless beady eyed pop vinyl figures and not barbie dolls i can dress up in little outfits
I ALSO WATCHED MORE OF MUPPETS AND I THINK I HAVE ANOTHER FAVORITE CHARACTER FOR SURE....
And of course how could I leave my fav character without a human ver 🦧
AND MORE OF THIS SILLY GANG BECAUSE I'M JUMPING AROUND AND GETTING MORE SEROTONIN
MEMDJSJJDJ, AHEM so!! I'm literally going insane over muppets and I just must watch all of them oh my god.. The Electric Mayhem makin my brain go bbrjkdbbbbrrbb
ANYWAY!!! I HOPE YOU ALL DOING OKAY and don't forget to drink water!! Have a wonderful morning/evening/night and remember to have rests!
Jolts from electric eels cause fish to absorb free-floating DNA
Zebrafish larvae took up genes for fluorescent proteins and began to glow after swimming with eels.
Think of it as a sort of superhero origin story for zebrafish:
Getting zapped by electric eels can allow them to acquire new DNA—and new abilities—researchers reported yesterday in PeerJ. Scientists working with genetic engineering sometimes use electricity to open temporary holes in cell membranes to allow foreign DNA to enter.
To find out whether a version of this phenomenon can happen in nature, the team put electric eels (Electrophorus electricus, pictured) and larvae from zebrafish (Danio rerio) into a tank together, along with free-floating genes that code for a green fluorescent protein.
After a day swimming amid the eels’ electric shocks, some larvae started to glow green, New Scientist reports, indicating their cells had taken in and begun to express the foreign genes.
The newly acquired DNA degraded quickly—the larvae only glowed for about a week—but it caused scientists to wonder: Could a wild animal acquire genes in this way and pass them to its offspring?
Researchers aren’t yet sure, but if so, they say it could introduce new mutations that influence the species’ evolution.