Searching for kangaroo ended me up on this pdf table [0] of the percent of lactose in non-domestic mammal milk. Sadly, the table is null on that exact measure, although they do have data on the amount of fat and protein in kangaroo milk.
Reminds me of Prime Curios, which is trivia about prime numbers. https://primes.utm.edu/curios/ They could make an interesting mash-up. Like a Vornoi scale made of prime numbers with the occurrence of biological numbers between them. It's well into the territory of a weird gematria at that point, but in terms of looping people into studying them with trivia, it would be fun.
This is a more useful resource than one would think. When I switched from studying math to biology, I was surprised that most graduate biology textbooks never provided these basic numbers --- average diffusion time of a protein across a cell, for instance --- which really helps in making back-of-the-envelope calculations.
It is a surprisingly simple single excel sheet or a single table with 14,248 rows. I was expecting an SQLite database with multiple relationally linked tables. Anyway the simplicity and the fact that it is a single spreadsheet makes it easy to browse through, and for most rows, a reference is provided.
Note to the maintainers:
The last 3-4 entries are spam.
Why do they need to refrigerate COVID mRNA vaccines?
Because the mean lifetime of mRNA is 5 minutes (at body temperature).
Arrhenius acceleration (or deceleration) with cold temperatures is the only viable trick. But even then, it's going to disappear quickly once it hits a target cell and the liposome is absorbed. Probably not a great half-life even then.
No this is due to degradation from nucleases. In fact the number you linked is specific to bacteria. Lifetime of mRNA in eukaryotes is on the order of hours, and this is due to active degradation as well.
If this is interesting to y’all, I highly recommend checking out their book Cell Biology By The Numbers. It’s lots of numbers like in this database, but with the hows and whys.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 39.6 ms ] threadhttps://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/files/The%20gross%20compo...
https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=117281&...
Are those bird populations just that difficult to count or estimate, is the data set just insanely small (if so, why?), or is there some other reason?
> Length of neuron from base of spine to big toe-longest cell in human body
> Range ≤1 meter
https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=104901&...
It is a surprisingly simple single excel sheet or a single table with 14,248 rows. I was expecting an SQLite database with multiple relationally linked tables. Anyway the simplicity and the fact that it is a single spreadsheet makes it easy to browse through, and for most rows, a reference is provided.
Note to the maintainers: The last 3-4 entries are spam.
Because the mean lifetime of mRNA is 5 minutes (at body temperature).
Arrhenius acceleration (or deceleration) with cold temperatures is the only viable trick. But even then, it's going to disappear quickly once it hits a target cell and the liposome is absorbed. Probably not a great half-life even then.
https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=108592&...
http://book.bionumbers.org/