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On Un-Boiling Boiled Eggs.

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 200 Comments › )
Filed under Breaking News, Entertainment, Food and Drink, Humor, Medicine, Open thread, Technology at February 7th, 2015 - 1:00 am

Texas Long Hens Eggs

It’s true. A hard-boiled chicken egg can now be unboiled.

Irvine, Calif., Jan. 23, 2015 – UC Irvine and Australian chemists have figured out how to unboil egg whites – an innovation that could dramatically reduce costs for cancer treatments, food production and other segments of the $160 billion global biotechnology industry, according to findings published today in the journal ChemBioChem.

“Yes, we have invented a way to unboil a hen egg,” said Gregory Weiss, UCI professor of chemistry and molecular biology & biochemistry. “In our paper, we describe a device for pulling apart tangled proteins and allowing them to refold. We start with egg whites boiled for 20 minutes at 90 degrees Celsius and return a key protein in the egg to working order.”

Like many researchers, he has struggled to efficiently produce or recycle valuable molecular proteins that have a wide range of applications but which frequently “misfold” into structurally incorrect shapes when they are formed, rendering them useless.

“It’s not so much that we’re interested in processing the eggs; that’s just demonstrating how powerful this process is,” Weiss said. “The real problem is there are lots of cases of gummy proteins that you spend way too much time scraping off your test tubes, and you want some means of recovering that material.”

[Source here. Image from here.]

Welcome to ObamaCare Proctology

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 10 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Healthcare, Humor, Medicine, OOT, Open thread at January 5th, 2013 - 10:30 pm


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Welcome John and Jane Q. Public! You’re the first patients in our brand new state of the art training facility. We’re all new here, too.

John, you start in Room 226 on your left; Jane, you’re in Room 224 at right. We’ll guide you through the *ahem* procedure. Make yourselves comfortable since you might be here a while, but please don’t sit down. Just drop ’em, bend over and smile, because it’s time for your nightly Overnight Open Thread.

Thousands of “Human Wrecks” Saved

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 119 Comments › )
Filed under Health Care, History, Humor, OOT, Open thread at August 22nd, 2011 - 11:00 pm


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Celery Perles – Saving mankind for centuries, thanks to the London chemists who sell them. Order before midnight tonight and you’ll also receive a painless mind-numbing dosage of The Overnight Open Thread.

It’s sick to be fun and vice versa.

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 184 Comments › )
Filed under Humor, OOT, Open thread, Science, Technology at July 19th, 2011 - 11:00 pm


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Whoa. Way too much disgusting innuendo in that caption to cope with, and to top it off, the clown’s eye rolls in friendly fashion? Good God. I really hope she didn’t bump the *ahem* clown’s nose accidentally, otherwise it’s a good bet she was in therapy until she turned 40.

Of course, a year or so later her world came crashing down once again, when she realized she’s become the subject of The Overnight Open Thread.