Plastics

Don't think we can assume there is extraterrestial life. But - if it exists- why would it be based on another elemental system. Come on - plastics and rubber? Why do you think that?

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I think it is mostly non-specific, electrostatic interactions. Many proteins spontaneously stick to plastics like polystyrene, less so to polypropylene. This is how the indirect ELISA plate is set up, as chen.lie described. Once you've bound the reagent of interest, you usually ...

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... skin, and the other organs, but rather their resistance to heat, and their ability to transfer it to the next layer. I am definitely not sure that plastics will be of any relevance, I would rather work with some sort of aqueous gels (because that is what we are made of), but don't ask me anything ...

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It would be helpful to know what experiment you're running, and budget of course. But I think overall you're going to find more plastics than non-plastics just because they're usually unreactive towards the body(allergies and immune concerns). The rigidity can usually be altered by adding ...

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If the monomers of these plastics resemble the structure of a particular hormone, then it might do something.

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