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Bait

Bait

1. Any substance, especially. Food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.

2. Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.

3. A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.

4. A light or hasty luncheon.

(Science: zoology) bait bug, a crustacean of the genus Hippa found burrowing in sandy beaches. See Anomura.

Origin: Icel. Beita food, beit pasture, akin to as. Bat food, Sw. Bete. See bait.


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WHO scum - politics over lives

I'm pretty sure that's a deliberate attempt to bait someone into saying "Alex! You're a poet and you don't even know it!"

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by AstusAleator
Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:57 pm
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: WHO scum - politics over lives
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... from now on and keep my trap shut, just like I should've done in the first place. The mods removed two of your posts before I stupidly took the bait and commented on this thread, and now we're having this fight against windmills of pseudoscience (gee, how poetic!), which leads us nowhere. So ...

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by vincio
Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:18 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Important unknown nanotech within humans
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Views: 6304

Re: Re:

... from now on and keep my trap shut, just like I should've done in the first place. The mods removed two of your posts before I stupidly took the bait and commented on this thread, and now we're having this fight against windmills of pseudoscience (gee, how poetic!), which leads us nowhere. So ...

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by biohazard
Sun Feb 15, 2009 8:24 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Important unknown nanotech within humans
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Re: Trap for viruses...

... endothelial growth factor (VEGF) from binding to the VEGFR-2[2]" I'm not talking about blocking it's receptors, but to make it catch the bait to trap it inside an empty liposom, which will be finally consumed by the immune system...

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by Jarek
Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:17 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Trap for viruses...
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Trap for viruses...

... liposome - water + phospholipid with specific molecules - for example CD4 and some chemokine receptors for HIV. Now if the virus would catch the bait, it will enter inside and loose its capsid - even if the liposome will be destroyed - it shouldn't longer be a threat or at least much smaller ...

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by Jarek
Sun Aug 17, 2008 6:52 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Trap for viruses...
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