rowanthesloth:

allthingshyper:

gehayi:

hiddlesbatchlove:

forever-falling-forward:

platredeparis:

bnycolew:

mannysiege:

Progress

What

Imma just let this sit here

MOTHA FUCKIN SCIENCE

sources:

Engagdget

DailyTech

CBS

They turned RNA into an anti-virus program. That is amazing.

Let me restate this in case it didn’t sink in the first time

Researchers physically DELETED ALL TRACES of the HIV virus from a human cell.

ALL OF IT.

IF YOU ARE NOT EXCITED ABOUT THAT I DON’T THINK YOU KNOW WHAT HIV IS

This story is a few years old now (dated mid-2014), so I thought I would track down an update for 2018.

This is a little bit technical, but explains a lot of the science behind this advancement.

A less technical rundown of recent advances.

Source: mannysiege

chefpyro:

chefpyro:

good thing this here internet box exists. back in the 12th century or whatever i would have had to shout my bullshit from the window

me hanging out my window in the dead of night, 1127 AD: I HAVE TWELVE TOES AND SEVEN EYES

a guardsman, already aiming for my nuts with his crossbow: SHUT YON FUCKETH MOUTH

callmeoaksie:

My fucking favourite things in movies and comics are people in expressionless suits of armour who’s body language is juuuust noticeable enough that you can tell exactly what they’re thinking even if they say nothing.