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What? how bacteria use this structure to get a movie?

 
 
Reply Mon 10 Mar, 2014 02:18 am
Bacteria get a movie? Or "we" need to make a moive about how bacteria use this structure"?

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Professor Waksman said: "This work is a veritable tour de force. The entire complex is absolutely huge and its structure is unprecedented. It is the type of work which is ground-breaking and will provide an entirely new direction to the field. Next, we need to understand how bacteria use this structure to get a movie of how antibiotics resistance genes are moved around."

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140309150544.htm
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Reply Mon 10 Mar, 2014 07:16 am

How about:
Next, we need to understand how bacteria use this structure [in order to fulfill our goal of getting] a movie of how antibiotics resistance genes are moved around.

Much closer to your second suggestion. But they aren't saying "We need to make a movie." Rather they are saying "We need to do this in order to make a movie."
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Reply Mon 10 Mar, 2014 07:24 am
@oralloy,
Cool.
Thank you.

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Reply Tue 11 Mar, 2014 01:23 am
@oralloy,
oralloy wrote:


How about:
Next, we need to understand how bacteria use this structure [in order to fulfill our goal of getting] a movie of how antibiotics resistance genes are moved around.

Much closer to your second suggestion. But they aren't saying "We need to make a movie." Rather they are saying "We need to do this in order to make a movie."


Will they really want to make a movie in reality? Or does the word movie here refer to "vividly dynamic process"?
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Reply Tue 11 Mar, 2014 05:29 am
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:
Will they really want to make a movie in reality? Or does the word movie here refer to "vividly dynamic process"?

I think they at least want to be able to envision the process in their mind. In that case, it would be an imaginary movie, but still one that involved a moving picture.

But sometimes scientists produce actual animations of such processes for display on a screen. So it is possible that they are referring to making an actual movie.

I lean slightly towards it being an imaginary movie -- just them envisioning how the process takes place. However, the article wasn't entirely clear on that point.
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