Luckily you get the days off from work even if you don’t “celebrate.”
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Holidays for all I suppose.
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R.I.P. Pope Francis 
(7 December 1936 – 21 April 2025).
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Wonder who will be the next one down the line…
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We will find out some time next month, since that is when the Conclave to pick the next Pope will begin.
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Do you think it’ll finish within May?
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Your guess is as good as mine. 
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I guess the sooner the Conclave has it’s work finished, the better.
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Until I’m released from the hospital, I have more pictures from my experiment with GUS plants in copper:
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I hope you continue to get better after your latest hospital visit! 
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More blue stuff… I wonder what will all this lead to in the end of the research…?
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These plants are actually clear evidence that the promoter (a promoter in gene language is a segment that brings RNA polymerase to the segment and from there begins to translate up to the terminator along the way, translating the gene into RNA for further processing before transporting it to the ribosome for translation) into a protein. These plants were genetically engineered so that this segment instead of the protein would produce a protein called GUS - a protein derived from the bacterium E. coli that breaks down glucose Glue-X into its product, which is blue.
The presence of the color indicates the presence of the GUS protein - where the promoter is active. The study hypothesized that this protein is specifically involved in the control of a plant in a stressful situation and in coping with it, together with the plant hormone ABA (which is involved in controlling a plant against stressful situations such as water shortage, toxicity or insect attack [simply]), are responsible for the plant’s coping with oxidative stress. What the previous study discovered is that there is a connection between the protein and copper and the name of this experiment, where I left the plant that was in the soil in complete darkness for about two and a half hours under different conditions (only water, only copper at a concentration of 10 micromolar and if they are in light or complete darkness about 2.5 h).
And what you can see - where the blue - is where the protein is formed - in the psychium of the plant in the dark with copper - two states of stress, in the oldest cells.
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So the torture does include stress… what next?
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To try to neutralize the copper target site in the protein by CRISPER and try to prove its effects in the presence of copper.
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What do you think will come out of all this?
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Ever thought of genetically modifing something to just have alot of Rubisco + Rubp that would just suck out carbon dioxide from air? Also I assume it’s not copper-copper.
Like it’s liquid.
What solution is that?
Also when plant tortures end? 
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I have a feeling it will only end when DL does.
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Penn state has done pan-genome analysis of the Malus genus and revealed how diverse the genome became for the apple as it became a domesticated crop, as well as important genes for potential future cultivators of this fruit.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02166-6
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What may this affect ingame once we get to the impacted development stages?
Better fruits using genetic tools? I was interested in this article since I like apples.
But your comment makes me wonder if there will be anti-genetic engineering factions in one’s species in game…
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