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Does this type of expression profile look familiar?
From my limited experience from these types of pan-tissue blots, it would seem like every damn protein is expressed in testes.
Why?
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"The goal of this mission is to launch into space both safely and successfully," announced Wilkins, who then spent an interminable number of hours tinkering with the retrieval system responsible for guiding the spacecraft back to Earth. "It is of chief importance that everything goes as planned."
Boy, what an annoying asshole! A gorilla would never do that!
thanks for the chuckle ~
We finicky nitpickers like to make you all chuckle.
Are you sure that's not you? I'm sure I see hair poking out from under the shirt in the one photo.
Hmph! You blog with a guy for years and then find out he's got a whole other secret life. I'll bet the next shocking revelation is that you are really from Tasmania or New Zealand! Admit it, you are not really Australian are you Wilkins (if, indeed that is your real name). You've changed, man, you've changed...
I may or may not be Australian (I think of myself as a citizen of the world, as Einstein did), but under no circumstances can I accept being called Tasmanian!
What's wrong with Tasmania? It looks quite pleasant from the pictures I've seen.