Comments on Assignment: Feed Jonathan Golob's Embryonic Stem Cells

on the plus side, Peter Jackson signed on to produce "The Hobbit" (plus it's sequel), to be released in '10 and '11. Hooray!

baby killer.

It's vial, with an 'a'.

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

For a measly off-site one trick pony columnist, Golob sure is bossy.

Steven-
Petri dish doesn't have a second "e", and that kind of "vile" is spelled "vial". Sorry to nitpick.

Thanks #3 and #5. Fixed.

Remember when Colin Powell's son was the chairman of the FCC

that was hilarious

funny, I came here to comment on the vile/vial thing too. 'Course, you could spell it "phial", too, and be super old skool.

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.

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.

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...

Wuss! Back in my day, we wrangled stem cells with horses and lariats!

Nice forearms, tho.

Well that's definitely an interesting way to play around with HIV.

What, no gold farming?

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.

I like that idea, but only because I love The Fly.

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

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.

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.

"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."

SLOG FIGHT!!!

It's no fun until someone mutates another eye out.

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.

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.

Are you kidding? The kindergarten kids line up for the right to take the embryonic stem-cells home for the weekends.

Cha-cha-cha ChiaCells!

I keep misreading the headline as "Assignment: Feed Jonathan Golob Embryonic Stem Cells."

@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.

Sweet assignment, intern! Loved it. =)

@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.

Oh, you're so adorable in the lab.

Oh, you're so adorable in the lab.