Quote Originally Posted by Laurens View Post
I thought you might get conversational Yes, I bike in, 11.5 km (which is about 7 American kilometres for you, Aussie) of sight-seeing route to the university and 10 km or ~6 USkm short route back to home.

I'm in the last year of my master Life Science & Technology. Experience taught me almost nobody knows what that means. In short, it's biotechnology, the study of replacing dirty, old-fasioned oil-based processes by clean, modern bio-processes.

Currently, I'm researching snake venom for bio-active peptides (small proteins). For example, a snake venom may cause low blood pressure, which can be a cure for people with high blood pressure. The nice things about using peptides/proteins as a medicine, are low concentration needed, completely bio-degradable and very little or no side-effects.

I really enjoy working on this project, it's challenging and one of the first study-related things I can explain to my mum!



I just noticed I did not answer the question... I'm learning to be somebody who can work on various biotechnological topics, either in the lab or as a consultant or so. Bio-based medicine and fuel, genetically enhanced food which makes it grow faster in worse climate conditions, bio-degradation of (industrial) waste, that sort of thing.
I was about to ask what your course meant, then you explained it, which was good, then you said GM crops, which when I was in the uk were EVIL as they were going to contaminate all of the indigenous non gm carrots and such.
I guessed you would cycle and I am glad you do (provided you seen spreading GM carrots and tulips throughout Holland, the seeds flying off you with gay abandon as you wend your way home), I started a thread about bikes in the fitness forum, you should post a piccie. Regards ed.