Slog - Comments on Assignment: Feed Jonathan Golob's Embryonic Stem Cells http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni This past week, I received an email from a man named Jonathan Golob. Public Intern- Feed my embryonic stem cells. I'll show you how and promise only a slight risk of permanent genomic modification. - Jonathan Golob aka Dear Science I drove downtown to visit Jonathan at the UW Medical Center in South Lake Union. The building looked like something out of a science fiction movie. Big sheets of tinted glass shot up into the sky at odd angles and I saw a sign for Vulcan chained to a fence. Jonathan let me into the building. In the lobby hung... Copyright 2008 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:00:00 -0800 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:21:37 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Sporting Fellow on the plus side, Peter Jackson signed on to produce "The Hobbit" (plus it's sequel), to be released in '10 and '11. Hooray!

]]> Sporting Fellow http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877239 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877239 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:01:18 -0800 Comment by cochise. baby killer.

]]> cochise. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877240 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877240 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:02:01 -0800 Comment by NaFun It's vial, with an 'a'.

Can you really implant cells into a virus? That sounds backwards.

]]> NaFun http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877248 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877248 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:07:21 -0800 Comment by Lake For a measly off-site one trick pony columnist, Golob sure is bossy.

]]> Lake http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877249 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877249 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:07:34 -0800 Comment by Cori Steven-
Petri dish doesn't have a second "e", and that kind of "vile" is spelled "vial". Sorry to nitpick.

]]> Cori http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877251 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877251 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:07:46 -0800 Comment by Steven Blum Thanks #3 and #5. Fixed.

]]> Steven Blum http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877255 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877255 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:11:05 -0800 Comment by Lake Remember when Colin Powell's son was the chairman of the FCC

that was hilarious

]]> Lake http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877256 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877256 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:11:52 -0800 Comment by el ganador funny, I came here to comment on the vile/vial thing too. 'Course, you could spell it "phial", too, and be super old skool.

]]> el ganador http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877257 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877257 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:11:54 -0800 Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty It's spelled "vial" Steve, not "vile." Oh, and while I'm at it, it's a "petri" dish. @1, yeah, I'm happy the turds at New Line finally figured out which side of the bread has the butter on it.

]]> Fifty-Two-Eighty http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877260 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877260 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:14:48 -0800 Comment by Aislinn That's really cute that you think of yourself as Goran Visnjic, and made Jonathan be Maura Tierney. I'm sure he really appreciates being the whiny alcoholic one.

]]> Aislinn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877263 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877263 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:16:52 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways gee, I wasn't aware this post had ANYFUCKING THING to do with the lameass/mother-raping abortion known at LOTR or that fucking old Teutonic cunt Tolkien or fucking, "I used to be an interesting filmmaker of sorts prior to my pedantic adaptation of the aforementioned overwrought fantasy abortion", Peter Jackson.

oh, and nice job, Public Intern. I'm very glad you didn't cause the extinction of mankind by mishandling ye olde phials and exlixers...

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877274 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877274 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:27:57 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Wuss! Back in my day, we wrangled stem cells with horses and lariats!

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877278 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877278 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:30:26 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Nice forearms, tho.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877279 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877279 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:31:08 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Well that's definitely an interesting way to play around with HIV.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877286 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877286 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:35:10 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle What, no gold farming?

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877287 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877287 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:35:35 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV It could be worse--while Golob's quite charming, he does look the sort who could absent-mindedly turn a lab assistant into some kind of mutant fly.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877306 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877306 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:45:44 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe I like that idea, but only because I love The Fly.

"You can't be serious! A monkey just came apart in there!"

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877312 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877312 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:49:54 -0800 Comment by Andrew Pendleton More nitpicking, sorry. Stem cells are several orders of magnitude bigger than viruses. Viruses are just a bit of DNA wrapped in a protein enclosure. Stem cells have nuclei (which, themselves, are full of DNA), mitochondria, ribosomes, amd various other organelles. A stem cell wouldn't fit in a virus, so that whole bit doesn't make any sense. Much more likely, the dead HIV specimens were being inserted into the stem cells, and not the other way 'round.

]]> Andrew Pendleton http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877317 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877317 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:52:45 -0800 Comment by wisepunk Maura Tierney is not dumpy. P.I. (AKA mini-savage), after you turn 30 you will realize that people who don't go out at night shirtless and slathered in baby oil are not all dumpy. I would think of J.G. as more of the anthony edwards type...No Jon, you aren't clooney either, don't even try to argue that point.

]]> wisepunk http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877321 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877321 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:54:43 -0800 Comment by Steven Blum "Much more likely, the dead HIV specimens were being inserted into the stem cells, and not the other way 'round."

Yes- Andrew- that's what I wrote:

"the cells we were about to handle had genes that were added using a dormant HIV virus."

]]> Steven Blum http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877327 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877327 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:57:51 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe SLOG FIGHT!!!

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877330 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877330 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:00:24 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV It's no fun until someone mutates another eye out.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877335 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877335 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:02:33 -0800 Comment by elenchos People who can't be bothered to feed their own embryonic stem cells shouldn't have them. Get a dog, OK?

Damn Idaho-Montana yuppies.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877341 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877341 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:05:59 -0800 Comment by observer Kinda odd that just anyone can go into the facility and mess around with stuff that probably has public funding and all it's strings attached.
No security?
No procedures that had to be signed off?

Very odd, and somewhat lax, IMO.

]]> observer http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877345 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877345 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:08:12 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Are you kidding? The kindergarten kids line up for the right to take the embryonic stem-cells home for the weekends.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877356 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877356 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:18:04 -0800 Comment by Quimby McF Cha-cha-cha ChiaCells!

]]> Quimby McF http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877368 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877368 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:28:13 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV I keep misreading the headline as "Assignment: Feed Jonathan Golob Embryonic Stem Cells."

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877392 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877392 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:45:23 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @18 and here I thought viruses were RNA with a nice crystalline structure that reedits the host cell ...

Sshhhh. Don't tell the siRNA or miRNA, they might get jealous.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877426 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877426 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:09:23 -0800 Comment by wench Sweet assignment, intern! Loved it. =)

]]> wench http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877643 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877643 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:38:27 -0800 Comment by Chris in Tampa @27 - Me too. Also, I read the entire post because I thought the email said "Feed ME embryonic stem cells", furthering my belief that something really wacky was going to happen.

]]> Chris in Tampa http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877726 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c877726 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:48:53 -0800 Comment by Electronicoffee Oh, you're so adorable in the lab.

]]> Electronicoffee http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c884059 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c884059 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:21:25 -0800 Comment by Electronicoffee Oh, you're so adorable in the lab.

]]> Electronicoffee http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c884060 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/assignment_feed_jonathan_golobs_embryoni#c884060 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:21:37 -0800