Rodney Trotter Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 Link here http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40077000/jpg/_40077078_graffiti_pa_203.jpg'> Vandal daubs DNA code in street The formula was spray-painted outside the Cavendish laboratory Police and academics in Cambridge are trying to find a graffiti artist who could be Britain's brightest vandal. The artist spray-painted part of a chemical component of DNA on the road outside a lab where the double helix was unveiled 50 years ago. Atop the design - described by one academic as "really nice" work - the artist wrote the word "phospholipase". Some suspect it to be the work of a chemistry student on the way home after a night of post-exam celebration. Dr Jonathan Goodman, a lecturer in Cambridge University's chemistry department, said: "The graffiti is of a molecule called guanine. We certainly don't want students spraying graffiti on roads and it's not something we condone Cambridge University "There is a picture of [the molecule] on the chemistry department web page. "It is one of the structures, or bases, which make up DNA - one of the four which Watson and Crick realised could fit together to form DNA in 1953." He added: "Phospholipase C is an enzyme which many people are studying." Professor Alan Dawson, emeritus professor of biochemistry at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, said: "It is a really nice bit of standard first or second-year biochemistry." A spokeswoman for Cambridge University said: "We think it is more likely to be the work of a post-graduate student because this appeared prior to the start of term. "We certainly don't want students spraying graffiti on roads and it's not something we condone." Last month, police and councillors in Cambridge launched a campaign to highlight the problem of graffiti in Cambridge, with police saying they would operate a "zero-tolerance" approach. Drunk toffs:rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 Originally posted by Rodney Trotter Police and academics in Cambridge are trying to find a graffiti artist who could be Britain's brightest vandal. always selling us so short. i work with DNA every goddamn day. :burned: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 i look at T&A everyday. not really the same, but i write about it in my live journal, which is sort of like graffiti, so i mean....you know....whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokus Posted September 19, 2004 Share Posted September 19, 2004 i thought it was kinda cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted September 19, 2004 Share Posted September 19, 2004 i deal with dna on the regular. well, sort of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spectr Posted September 19, 2004 Share Posted September 19, 2004 so lame i shouldnt have posted wait so fresh i should have.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOOGLE? Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 Originally posted by !@#$% always selling us so short. i work with DNA every goddamn day. :burned: you work at a porno shop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
type R Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 blah. i myself have painted numerous molecule compositions in or around my piece on various walls, and i have seen others do likewise before me. just because a drunken bio-chem student painted a few molecules on the road doesnt mean he is a graffiti artist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 Originally posted by iloveboxcars i deal with dna on the regular. well, sort of. Originally posted by MOOGLE? you work at a porno shop? you guys need to get together.. a real meeting of the brains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omar Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 Originally posted by type R blah. i myself have painted numerous molecule compositions in or around my piece on various walls, and i have seen others do likewise before me. just because a drunken bio-chem student painted a few molecules on the road doesnt mean he is a graffiti artist. i definately agree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted September 22, 2004 Share Posted September 22, 2004 Originally posted by !@#$% you guys need to get together.. a real meeting of the brains. :beat2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunk Sober Posted September 22, 2004 Share Posted September 22, 2004 i got something to say about all this, wait a second..... NOPE! Its just a fart! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOOGLE? Posted September 22, 2004 Share Posted September 22, 2004 you know i loooove you !@#$%. i had thought about doing molecules on stickers for a bit though, like 3 years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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