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Genetic data party straw

There is a gene, DRD4 R7 that makes people twice as Easy, so we coat the upper surface of soda straws with UV fluorescent Physically cycling PCR gene detector chemistry so a handyphone can view everyones genotype at a distance
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There is a gene, DRD4 R7 that makes people twice as Easy (link), so we coat the upper surface of soda straws with UV fluorescent gene detectors then a handyphone can view everyones genotype at a distance. Perhaps a person might say along with being attentive to social cues or conversation you can just see who at the party has the DRD4 R7 gene.

At a milder even more prosocial affectionate area It occurred to me that a genetic data party straw could cause earnest conversations like

Wow you have the gene where people remember almost all of their childhood. That is so awesome like as you are uh, looking around at the people at the party you actually make more sense than other people when thinking about genetic futures

"hmmm"

Well like I slightly remember third grade. Yet a person like you that remembered all of it would remember things like writing notes was a fun friendly activity compared with your noneffective popular music impressions. Now someone like me might just say, oh a good reason to pass notes a year earlier, like specify higher IQ genes at your daughter, yet a person who was actually there might be able to remember that you really liked your parents yet the one that worked until 7pm usually had sleepy daughter parent interactions so rather than just drive towards being ever smarter with musical ability you might also have the perspicacity to specify genes where a kid is generally fully awake the entire time they are awake, greatly improving their emotional lives as well as those of their parents. Also I see you are easy. we could chat more about this at breakfast!

Why salivate into a tube then send it to a lab when you can salivate ON a tube at a party?

Now chemically I know none of you will believe this works even though ion exchange resins as well as polaroid process chemistry are well known technologies.

Realtime PCR kits exist (link), they detect unique RNA at realtime, there is also a patent on a version of PCR that uses nonthermal physical methods to do cycling, using micronewtons of pressure rather than the stochastics of warmth to divide DNA between PCR cycles (link).

The outside of the straw has a grooved hygroscopic microtexture, visible or otherwise, The saliva is drawn along these channels. When the straw is formed microchannels adjacent to the grooves are created, these contain the PCR chemical reagents. These reagents are sequentially drawn along the groove as a result of the osmotic force of wetting when the straw is used.

You just march the prep as well as PCR chemicals sequentially past the adjacent saliva groove using osmosis. This is a little like moving a layered drink with a far absorbent (link) to get it to react with the saliva that has wicked along that channel or an adjacent connected channel. You could also the warmth of drinking to move the reagents, kind of like a love meter. (link)

Notably of course there are thousands or possibly millions of times more RNA at a cyte than DNA at the nucleus, Furthermore finding the proteins the persons is actively making from an RNA quantifier is a benefit.

Translation: this is straw that detects DNA or RNA then changes color to describe what it finds, Other people have already described the chemistry. There is the option of using UV fluorescence so handyphones can see the genetic description guiding people to what they like.

Perhaps It is more fun to salivate ON a tube at a party than to salivate into a tube then send it to a lab.

Its a straw humanity could grasp at!

beanangel, Feb 03 2012

Associations between dopamine D4 receptor gene variation with both infidelity and sexual promiscuity. http://www.ncbi.nlm...?term=PMC2994774%20
Taken together, 7R+ were almost twice as likely to have engaged in promiscuous sex, and, when they were unfaithful, 7R+ individuals reported more than 50% more extra-pair copulation partners than 7R- individuals (See Figure 3). [beanangel, Feb 03 2012]

Realtime PCR describes how much of what RNA is being made https://products.ap...2685&tab=DetailInfo
[beanangel, Feb 03 2012]

Patent application that uses physical motion to do PCR http://www.freshpat...ptan20060019274.php
20060019274 Thus, a polymerase reaction cycle can be initiated by increasing tension applied to a DNA template to above about 65 pN to denature the DNA. A step corresponding to the annealing of primers can be effected by slowly decreasing tension on the DNA template to below about 50 pN to allow primers to anneal to the template. Tension in the DNA template can then be adjusted within about 0 to about 30 pN during extension of the primer via enzymatic polymerization in order to control the progress, rate and/or accuracy of the replication. [beanangel, Feb 03 2012]

search engine layered drink https://www.google....322l1014l9.3-1l10l0
[beanangel, Feb 03 2012]

sometimes called a love meter, you hold it, fluid moves then bubbles http://www.glasswar..._love_meter_NEW.jpg
[beanangel, Feb 03 2012]

has links to diamagnetic wiggling of oil water systems Custom_20DNA_20Microchip_20Nucleotide
[beanangel, Feb 04 2012]

sexy headlines on every cover http://www.cosmopolitan.com/
[beanangel, Feb 06 2012]

Gene gets a bad reputation, but different test shows different result http://drx.typepad....ids-dandelions.html
Same gene leads to sharing behavior [normzone, Feb 13 2012]

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       And the award for "Recognition-Of-An -Idea's-Author- At-A-Distance-Without -Reading-It" goes to...
normzone, Feb 03 2012
  

       Perhaps the colour intensity can increase with the amount of alcohol which passes through it?
AusCan531, Feb 03 2012
  

       [Beanan Gel] is like [Vernon] on LSD.
ytk, Feb 03 2012
  

       ... Or it could detect various STDs, which should correlate with the Ease you seek.
spidermother, Feb 03 2012
  

       The patent on force-mediated PCR is interesting. However, as far as I can tell, they haven't actually got it to work. (There are no examples of successful reactions presented in the paper.) So, a [+] for bringing that patent to my attention, even though the idea sucks.
MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 03 2012
  

       ...and here I thought we'd all get together wearing our genes, have a party, and draw straws for...
xandram, Feb 03 2012
  

       at another .5b idea there is a description of using a Neodium magnet to wiggle lipid bubbles at water with a photographic link   

       It might be possible to create thermalless magnetic cycling PCR with those two systems
beanangel, Feb 04 2012
  

       //a straw humanity could grasp at//   

       It's' OK, [bean]; you're not the first author to use "humanity" to mean "my sex life".   

       Meanwhile, would you be willing to speculate on what the DRD4 R7 gene would feel like to someone who had it? If those people are not already having sex with you, might there be, from their point of view, a good reason for that?   

       More importantly, have you considered the risk of an internal monologue which included the following:
"I know she wants it really, her genes prove that; it's only her socially repressed conscious mind that's saying no."
  

       Can you see how that might be a problem?
pertinax, Feb 05 2012
  

       If you lack the confidence to approach a pretty young lady, engage her in distractionary conversation while assessing her HWR and pheromones (for suitable mating) before hitting her over the head and dragging her back to the cave, then might I suggest Rohypnol... or the classic pick-up line: "Excuse me miss, does this handkerchief smell like chloroform to you?"   

       [+], however. It could streamline the short-term mating strategy, but might I suggest the straw also indicate ovulation?
MikeD, Feb 05 2012
  

       What MikeD said was almost word for word what I was thinking when I read this.   

       Also, this would only be good for one night stands. If you want an actual relationship, do you really WANT to pick a girl who is "easy?" How would you ever be certain she was not cheating?   

       This could be used for exactly the opposite of the author's intent though. You could use to to avoid women who are "easy."
Psalm_97, Feb 05 2012
  

       I think this is my favorite line in the whole idea:   

       "I know none of you will believe this works"
normzone, Feb 05 2012
  

       Saying, "this technology gets you laid at a party" is a way of attracting mindshare. Also if people make social straws they also happen to be making the technology volumized as well as cheaper. Ive heard everything from VCRs to the internet got its manufacturing as well physical volume efficiency as a result of naked picture movement viewer share. Making DNA technology sexy makes more DNA technology, more rapidly.   

       Cosmopolitan is the highest circulation womens magazine, so Im pretty much just using Cosmo article descriptions to describe as well as popularize a technology. I think many women greatly appreciate their children thus all that physical as well as mental well being like the COMT met met happiness gene get Sexy genes buzz as a kind of opening band to the really awesome main activity, Better kids with better lives.   

       also I like sex.
beanangel, Feb 06 2012
  

       I see what normzone meant by his first comment. Remind me to never, ever tell you where my sister lives. For your safety, not hers.
Psalm_97, Feb 06 2012
  

       //Making DNA technology sexy makes more DNA technology, more rapidly.//   

       I am saying this through gritted teeth, and I already wish I weren't saying it at all, but that is an insightful comment. Uch. Ahhrg. Ptooey.
MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 13 2012
  

       How could DNA be any sexier than it already is?
mouseposture, Feb 13 2012
  

       On a milder even more prosocial affectionate area It occured to me that a genetic data party straw could cause earnest conversations like   

       wow you have the gene where people remember almost all of their childhood. Thats so awesome like as you are uh, looking around at the people at the party you actually make more sense than other people when thinking about genetic futures   

       "hmmm"   

       Well like I slightly remember third grade. Yet a person like you that remembered all of it would remember things like writing notes was a fun friendly activity compared with your noneffective popular music impressions. Now someonelike me just say, oh a good reason to pass notes a year earlier, like specify higher IQ genes at your daughter, yet a person who was actually there might be able to remember that you really liked your parents yet the one that worked until 7pm usually had sleepy daughter interactions so rather than just drive towards being ever smarter with musical ability you might also have the perspicacity to specify genes where a kid is generally fully awake the entire time they are awake, greatly improving their emotional lives as well as those of their parents. Also I see you are easy. we could chat more about this at breakfast!
beanangel, Feb 17 2012
  
      
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