Ask a biochemistry professor anything

[Anonymous No.10710611]

Ask a biochemistry professor anything.

My latest project is:

http://www.sperm.co.nz/

Sperm Research NZ is an joint collaboration by me and the University of Otago’s Department of Biochemistry to develop a variety of therapeutic medicinal and pharmaceutical products from human semen. With the help of funding from the New Zealand Lottery Grants Board, we will be constantly working to acquire and preserve fresh semen from sources such as used condoms in parking lots, waste receptacles, etc.

The website will officially go live at 00:00 NZT on June 10, 2019 (about 3 hours from now). I've still got several stacks of paperwork to get through but other than that, everything is looking great so far. My colleagues are currently in the lab setting all of the equipment and reagents up so that we can begin work by Monday tomorrow.

I'll be working in close collaboration with several universities in both my country and with Monash University in Australia to share research findings. A few weeks ago, our application for a research grant from the NZ Lottery Grants Board was accepted which means that we shouldn't need to worry about funding for at least another 3 years.

Unfortunately, I'll be doing most of the dirty work when it comes to collecting the used condoms, etc. We expect to get more equipment in later on (e.g. mass spectrometry, gas chromatography, thin-layer chromatography, HPLC) which we will use to isolate several compounds of interest in the samples. We'll also be working with several postgraduate students from the University of Otago's Department of Computer Science who are completing their PhDs in computational biochemistry. The hope is that we will be able to identify promising pharmaceutical applications that, if all things go well, we could bring to market by the early- to mid-2020s.

This thread will be active for about three hours from the time of this posting. After the official launch at 00:00 NZT, I will no longer be able to answer questions.

[Anonymous No.10710612]

Are you a woman

[None !.ozIpWlfhs No.10710615]

>>10710612
No.

Also, I just realized I forgot to use a tripcode. Hopefully this works...

[Anonymous No.10710616]

I'm having a hard time taking this seriously. Why would you be collecting degraded and possibly diseased semen from random places instead of simply having your team produce fresh samples themselves?

[Anonymous No.10710619]

>>10710615
this is now boring.

[None !.ozIpWlfhs No.10710625]

>>10710616
There is a lot of paperwork and costs associated with using actual humans in a research study.

[Anonymous No.10710627]

>>10710611
>therapeutic medicinal and pharmaceutical products from human semen
Is this for real? Why would you expect to be able to develop anything useful from this, much less with the concerns raised by >>10710616

[None !.ozIpWlfhs No.10710635]

>>10710627
I don't have the actual research papers with me right now but if Wikipedia is good enough for you then here you go:

>Spermidine is a longevity agent in mammals due to various mechanisms of action, which are just beginning to be understood. Autophagy is the main mechanism at the molecular level, but evidence has been found for other mechanisms, including inflammation reduction, lipid metabolism, and regulation of cell growth, proliferation and death.[2]

>Spermidine is known to regulate plant growth, assisting the in vitro process of transcribing RNA, and inhibition of NOS. Also, spermidine is a precursor to other polyamines, such as spermine and thermospermine, some of which contribute to tolerance against drought and salinity in plants.

>Spermidine has been tested and discovered to encourage hair shaft elongation and lengthen hair growth. Spermidine has also been found to “upregulate expression of the epithelial stem cell-associated keratins K15 and K19, and dose-dependently modulated K15 promoter activity in situ and the colony forming efficiency, proliferation and K15 expression of isolated human K15-GFP+ cells in vitro.”[3]

>Spermidine has also been reported to protect the heart from aging and prolong the lifespan of mice, while in humans it was correlated with lower blood pressure.[16] It also was found to reduce the amount of aging in yeast, flies, worms, and human immune cells by inducing autophagy.[17]

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spermidine

A related compound (norspermidine) is also being being researched for use as a cancer medication:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norspermidine

[Anonymous No.10710637]

What's your opinion of St Tarrant?

[None !.ozIpWlfhs No.10710647]

>>10710637
I don't like him and the sick ideology that he stands for. In fact, I haven't met anyone with an opinion of him that isn't complete and utter disgust. Thankfully, the kinds of views that he had are a very small minority in New Zealand.

[Anonymous No.10710651]

>>10710635
what kind of sick fuck?
stop cumming on random shit you fucking weirdo.
honestly, please don't breed. let your gene pool die out, we have enough issues.

[Anonymous No.10710655]

>>10710647
dropped

[Anonymous No.10710659]

>>10710647
this is why professors aren’t allowed to post here. too easy to bait

[Anonymous No.10710664]

>>10710647

Yeah well only a small minority of new Zealanders hang out in parking lots collecting old condoms too, pal

[Anonymous No.10710686]

If I i wrote you an application email mentioning this thread, will you invite me for an interview?

[Anonymous No.10710688]

>>10710686
Have you got any old semen to donate?

[None !.ozIpWlfhs No.10710703]

>>10710686
Work or study?
I don't really have much input in either though since the admissions office and HR division usually handles that stuff.

[Anonymous No.10710728]

lmao at your collection methods

t. andrology chad

[Anonymous No.10710737]

>>10710615
could you just pretend to be for the sake of science? I can produce more samples for you if you do

[None !.ozIpWlfhs No.10710750]

>>10710737
We have female scientists and graduate/postgraduate students working on our team. I'll be the one collecting the samples however since they are often found in the seedier parts of town.

[Anonymous No.10710754]

This has to be a troll thread but it amuses me to think of some fucker in a lab coat prowling parking lots and hotel dumpsters digging for used condoms.

[Anonymous No.10710763]

>>10710611
Who collects the semen in the parking lots?

Prostitutes, or lab technicians?

[None !.ozIpWlfhs No.10710774]

>>10710763
Currently that's my job. A lab assistant could probably do it too but there might be liability issues.

[Anonymous No.10710777]

The average person needs 2,000 calories a day.

The average ejaculation contains around 1 calorie.

That’s 2000 nuts a day or 730,000 nuts per year.

However the average ejaculation is 3 milliliters.

That’s 6000 milliliters or 6 liters a day of cum.

The human stomach can only hold a maximum of 5 liters.

Imagine your entire digestive system filled to the brim with jizz every single day, it sounds awful and I love the taste of cum.

To sustain yourself off of jizz you would need to be the ultimate cumslut.

Extra info:

The average guy takes 5.5 minutes to cum and 20 minutes to recover.

That means if a guy had to cum as his job he would nut roughly 20 times in those 8 hours.

To get 2000 nuts per day you would need 100 dudes working 8 hours a day.

That’s 800 manhours to feed somebody on just jizz for one day.

Assuming you paid them a fair wage if $15 per hour you’re paying $12,000 dollars per day to sustain yourself.

That’s $4,380,000 dollars per year to feed yourself on cum.

And even then you’d be lacking in most nutrients and vitamins.

At least you can make some guys very very happy until you die of malnutrition.

[Anonymous No.10710778]

>>10710611
Why that op picture

[Anonymous No.10710780]

>>10710777
do you think everyone who eats cereal takes it with human breastmilk? there are other ways...

[Anonymous No.10710785]

>>10710750
>We have female scientists and graduate/postgraduate students working on our team
post bob and vegene pics sir

[Anonymous No.10710786]

Dear GOD/GODS and/or anyone else who can HELP ME (e.g. MEMBERS OF SUPER-INTELLIGENT ALIEN CIVILIZATIONS):

The next time I wake up, please change my physical form to that of FINN MCMILLAN of SOUTH NEW BRIGHTON at 8 YEARS OLD and keep it that way FOREVER.

I am so sick of this chubby Asian man body!

Thank you!

- CHAUL JHIN KIM (a.k.a. A DESPERATE SOUL)

[None !.ozIpWlfhs No.10710800]

>>10710778
It was the first image I found when I did a Google search for sperm. We were actually supposed to have our own logo but the person who does them is currently on holiday.

>>10710785
Some of my colleagues can be found here:

https://www.otago.ac.nz/biochemistry/people/index.html

Not all of us are on that page though. For example, I'm not there because I'm technically a visiting professor.

[Anonymous No.10710810]

>>10710780
I hear donkey semen is in demand
>>10710777
femanon or faggot?
>>10710800
this whole operation sounds fucked I'm calling the department of health.
is this what science has reduced to? digging for condoms in the hood?
time to an hero and get taken by aliens to paradise.

[Anonymous No.10710828]

>>10710777
Almighty trips of truth

[Anonymous No.10710851]

>>10710647
Your so dumb. How did you find us? This place isnt for you, and it's not for the reasons that are running through your head right now as you read this.

I sentence you to 30 days in /pol/, not to be commuted, I'm sorry.

[Anonymous No.10710854]

>>10710777
>average ejactulation is 3 milliliters

LOL @ white dicklets

[None !.ozIpWlfhs No.10710855]

>>10710810
The Ministry of Health is mainly responsible for healthcare, not research.

[Anonymous No.10710858]

This is obviously fake. Why are people replying seriously to this thread?

[Anonymous No.10710859]

>>10710611
OP, welcome to 4chan. /mlp/ actually ran a similar experiment to what you're proposing, I really recommend you head over there and put your efforts together. They probably have some research data you havent considered.

[Anonymous No.10710864]

>>10710858
You know I really dont think it is. I'm pretty sure this is real.

[None !.ozIpWlfhs No.10710865]

OP here.

I'd like to say thanks to everyone for being part of this thread. As mentioned in the original post, I won't be answering any questions from now on. It's 11:50 PM here and we've had an extremely busy day getting everything set up so we're all very tired and sleepy. The first post on the project's official website is scheduled to go live at exactly 12:00 AM midnight tonight (approximately 10 minutes from now).

Goodnight everybody and take care. :)

- Chaul Jhin Kim

[Anonymous No.10710868]

>>10710611
Victoria vs UoA vs Massey vs Otago

[Anonymous No.10710874]

>>10710865
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/man-confetti-bombed-uni-toilets
Why are you so based?

[Anonymous No.10710883]

>>10710855
that's not a thing or else they wouldn't give 12 year old girls birth control
medicine isn't a science

[Anonymous No.10710926]

>>10710883
>medicine isn't a science
Incorrect.

[Anonymous No.10710937]

>>10710635
Holy shit has anyone posted this to /fit/ yet? We could definitely get them to eat cum (more than they already are of course)

[Anonymous No.10710941]

>>10710926
>incorrect
incorrect

[Anonymous No.10710945]

>>10710937
why are you so mean to those smooth brains. you know they are retarded right? it is basically just abuse.

[Anonymous No.10710955]

>>10710647
based

[Anonymous No.10711835]

>>10710703
Work

[Anonymous No.10711930]

>professor
>27 years old

hmmm