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[terrisus]

Eggs apparently make a better headline

When an egg is boiled, the protein in the egg white changes shape from tightly wound individual clumps to long tangled strands. This is why a raw egg white is clear while a cooked egg white appears solid — the tangled strands don’t allow light to pass through.

To return those proteins to their original form, Weiss and his team first added a chemical that turned the solid back into a liquid. Then they used a high-powered machine developed by Australian scientists that is called a vortex fluid device to disentangle those stuck-together protein strands.

The object of the research wasn't the eggs themselves, but those proteins. Being able to separate tangled proteins could be a huge boon for scientists.

“It’s not so much that we’re interested in processing the eggs; that’s just demonstrating how powerful this process is,” Weiss said in the release. “The real problem is there are lots of cases of gummy proteins that you spend way too much time scraping off your test tubes, and you want some means of recovering that material.”

 

[maxcriden]

They unboiled an egg. ....That's so cool.

(eggs are gross to eat though on their own)

 

[Grym]

wow. we can uncook stuff now?

Science!

 

[DragonSworne]

Cool, you can now have cooked raw eggs.

 

[triplestation]

What happens to the yolk

 

[Anoregon]

What happens to the yolk

Sacrificed to the science gods

 

[Gabotron ES]

will this increase my gains?

 

[maxcriden]

wow. we can uncook stuff now?

Science!

 

[LUFTRAUSER]

 

[Timeaisis]

They unboiled an egg. ....That's so cool.

(eggs are gross to eat though on their own)

maxcriden
dislikes onions, eggs
loves broccoli

You are a strange person, my friend.

 

[ErrorMacro]

vortex fluid device sounds like something a Supervillain would come up with.

 

[terrisus]

maxcriden
dislikes onions, eggs
loves broccoli

You are a strange person, my friend.

Yeah, it is pretty strange

Spoiler

to like broccoli >.>

vortex fluid device sounds like something a Supervillain would come up with.

You've never partially filled a soda bottle with water and taped its mouth to another soda bottle's mouth to create a fluid vortex device?

 

[ThatGuyAgain]

I was hoping for something a little more groundbreaking with this discovery.

“It’s not so much that we’re interested in processing the eggs; that’s just demonstrating how powerful this process is,” Weiss said in the release. “The real problem is there are lots of cases of gummy proteins that you spend way too much time scraping off your test tubes, and you want some means of recovering that material.”

Not sure who would want reverse cooked protien though. Maybe treatment for burn victims?

 

[Ferrio]

I was hoping for something a little more groundbreaking with this discovery.

Not sure who would want reverse cooked protien though. Maybe treatment for burn victims?

It tells you exactly why in what you quoted.

 

[Keyser Soze]

This is eggcellent news

 

[ThatGuyAgain]

It tells you exactly why in what you quoted.

I meant use outiside of scraping gummy protiens off test tubes.

 

[Ferrio]

I meant use outiside of scraping gummy protiens off test tubes.

Clean up porn sets?

 

[Hex]

Too vague?

 

[Mook1e]

Wasn't this already posted?
Also, pics?
Sorry if there are pics, I'm on my mobile with low bandwidth.

 

[Chuck]

gift for everyone on the team of this discovery

 

[Keyser Soze]

Arent blocked arteries (that can lead to heart problems) usually protein buildups?

If so, I guess in a few years / decades, doctors could clear blocked arteries with a simple flush from a solution in a syringe?

 

[Ferrio]

Arent blocked arteries (that can lead to heart problems) usually protein buildups?

If so, I guess in a few years / decades, doctors could clear blocked arteries with a simple flush from a solution in a syringe?

Causing a bunch of plaque to suddenly come off the artery walls probably isn't the smartest thing to do.

 

[Graphics Horse]

I was hoping for something a little more groundbreaking with this discovery.

Not sure who would want reverse cooked protien though. Maybe treatment for burn victims?

Well the chemical they used was urea, so maybe there are health benefits to drinking piss for self untangulation.

 

[Eyeshield1625]

Too vague?

Lmao.

Spoiler

RIP Eggs

 

[Keyser Soze]

Causing a bunch of plaque to suddenly come off the artery walls probably isn't the smartest thing to do.

I am guessing decades down the line they could (possibly) turn it into harmless stuff with the currently totally make believe solution i am talking about

 

[daveo42]

That's quite interesting. Didn't know that's why it turns white when cooked. What kind of actual applications could this improve?

They unboiled an egg. ....That's so cool.

(eggs are gross to eat though on their own)

Eggs are awesome, taste great, and are a great source of protein. You have some odd tastes, my man.

 

[Sub_Level]

Eggs are some of the best food on the planet.

Evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNndX9qua1o

 

[Gentleman Jack]

They've been uncooking eggs for much longer than that. I guess the new breakthrough is what to do with untangled proteins in the lab.

 

[maxcriden]

maxcriden
dislikes onions, eggs
loves broccoli

You are a strange person, my friend.

Well, onions and eggs are so unctous and texturally strange, respectively.

Broccoli has a great mix of texture and subtle woodsy flavor.

Mmm.

 

[Armoured Priest]

This is kind of a big deal. Consider Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (more or less the human version of Mad-cow disease). Its caused by mis-folded protein chains (called prions). If we potentially have the ability to untangle/re-fold protein chains, we may eventually be able to treat CJD and similar conditions.

 

[Floridian]

 

[Always-honest]

They unboiled an egg. ....That's so cool.

(eggs are gross to eat though on their own)

Wut? Egs are delicious godlike food. Just boil, peel, eat. Good food.
Onions too.

And, i agree broccoli is awesome.

Anyway, amazing science.

 

[Zombine]

Is anyone else weirded out by what eggs really are? Like, when you hold them you're holding something that came out of a chickens butt. I eat them, but I always feel like a savage.

 

[Ferrio]

Is anyone else weirded out by what eggs really are? Like, when you hold them you're holding something that came out of a chickens butt. I eat them, but I always feel like a savage.

Sit down son, it's time we had the talk.

 

[Necromanti]

Sit down son, it's time we had the talk.

He's half-right.

Spoiler

It's a vaganus.

 

[Ferrio]

He's half-right.

Spoiler

It's a vaganus.

Ya I guess, stupid birds.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Unfortunately my protein yields are extremely high so Im typically not caring about loss of protein from left over remnants in the tubes. It would be better if it was a machine to get proteins that go out of solution back in solution and refold properly after purification steps.

 

[Boss Doggie]

I wish I could do the cool shit like crack open a raw egg and eat its insides

 

[akira28]

I wish I could do the cool shit like crack open a raw egg and eat its insides

you have to be macho to do that. are you macho, Boss Doggie?

 

[Candeldandel]

Eggs are some of the best food on the planet.

Evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNndX9qua1o

I was hoping I'd find this in here... what a nostalgia bomb! Also, I love egg(s).

 

[SniperHunter]

gift for everyone on the team of this discovery

got a malware warning from this post

 

[ZackieChan]

Too vague?

Jimmy Olsen got shot?

 

[Strike]

Too vague?

Nah, I got it.

 

[terrisus]

I wish I could do the cool shit like crack open a raw egg and eat its insides

you have to be macho to do that. are you macho, Boss Doggie?

He has to be.
He's the Boss Doggie.
And all his loli wolf companions are so moe.

 

[Boss Doggie]

you have to be macho to do that. are you macho, Boss Doggie?

don't raw eggs taste plain?

 

[Log4Girlz]

Eggciting

 

[terrisus]

don't raw eggs taste plain?

I'd think it would taste pretty gross raw, Dog.

 

[Blargonaut]

Science has now gone too far.

This has the potential to kill everyone on Earth; if the particles of this 'chemical' were to somehow become airborne across the globe's atmosphere through the scheming of free radicals, good humans would breathe this agent in and the centrifugal acceleration of the Earth's crust as our world spins around its own axis would act as a "vortex fluid device" magnified on a planetary-wide scale (me, Irene, et al.) .

The Coriolis Effect will cause every single, respiring being on Earth to be uncooked and protein-untangled into the primordial jelly we evolved from,,

Throw all your financial support and coupons at me and I will solemnly vow to skull-f**k veto this spawn of anarchy straight into my technovault for maximum monopolistic exploitation towards my gains