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question:You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer. Focused crawls are collections of frequently-updated webcrawl data from narrow (as opposed to broad or wide) web crawls, often focused on a single domain or subdomain. ||||| Imagine an insect repellant that not only is thousands of times more effective than DEET -- the active ingredient in most commercial mosquito repellants -- but also works against all types of insects, including flies, moths and ants. That possibility has been created by the discovery of a new class of insect repellant made in the laboratory of Vanderbilt Professor of Biological Sciences and Pharmacology Laurence Zwiebel and reported this week in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "It wasn't something we set out to find," said David Rinker, a graduate student who performed the study in collaboration with graduate student Gregory Pask and post-doctoral fellow Patrick Jones. "It was an anomaly that we noticed in our tests." The tests were conducted as part of a major interdisciplinary research project to develop new ways to control the spread of malaria by disrupting a mosquito's sense of smell supported by the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative funded by the Foundation for the NIH through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "It's too soon to determine whether this specific compound can act as the basis of a commercial product," Zwiebel cautioned. "But it is the first of its kind and, as such, can be used to develop other similar compounds that have characteristics appropriate for commercialization." The discovery of this new class of repellant is based on insights that scientists have gained about the basic nature of the insect's sense of smell in the last few years. Although the mosquito's olfactory system is housed in its antennae, 10 years ago biologists thought that it worked in the same way at the molecular level as it does in mammals. A family of special proteins called odorant receptors, or ORs, sits on the surface of nerve cells in the nose of mammals and in the antennae of mosquitoes. When these receptors come into contact with smelly molecules, they trigger the nerves signaling the detection of specific odors. In the last few years, however, scientists have been surprised to learn that the olfactory system of mosquitoes and other insects is fundamentally different. In the insect system, conventional ORs do not act autonomously. Instead, they form a complex with a unique co-receptor (called Orco) that is also required to detect odorant molecules. ORs are spread all over the antennae and each responds to a different odor. To function, however, each OR must be connected to an Orco. "Think of an OR as a microphone that can detect a single frequency," Zwiebel said. "On her antenna the mosquito has dozens of types of these microphones, each tuned to a specific frequency. Orco acts as the switch in each microphone that tells the brain when there is a signal. When a mosquito smells an odor, the microphone tuned to that smell will turn "on" its Orco switch. The other microphones remain off. However, by stimulating Orco directly we can turn them all on at once. This would effectively overload the mosquito's sense of smell and shut down her ability to find blood." Because the researchers couldn't predict what chemicals might modulate OR-Orco complexes, they decided to "throw the kitchen sink" at the problem. Through their affiliation with Vanderbilt's Institute of Chemical Biology, they gained access to Vanderbilt's high throughput screening facility, a technology intended for the drug discovery process, not for the screening of insect ORs. Jones used genetic engineering techniques to insert mosquito odorant receptors into the human embryonic kidney cells used in the screening process. Rinker tested these cells against a commercial library of 118,000 small molecules normally used in drug development. They expected to find, and did find, a number of compounds that triggered a response in the conventional mosquito ORs they were screening, but they were surprised to find one compound that consistently triggered OR-Orco complexes, leading them to conclude that they had discovered the first molecule that directly stimulates the Orco co-receptor. They have named the compound VUAA1. Although it is not an odorant molecule, the researchers determined that VUAA1 activates insect OR-Orco complexes in a manner similar to a typical odorant molecule. Jones also verified that mosquitoes respond to exposure to VUAA1, a crucial step in demonstrating that VUAA1 can affect a mosquito's behavior. "If a compound like VUAA1 can activate every mosquito OR at once, then it could overwhelm the insect's sense of smell, creating a repellant effect akin to stepping onto an elevator with someone wearing too much perfume, except this would be far worse for the mosquito," Jones said. The researchers have just begun behavioral studies with the compound. In preliminary tests with mosquitoes, they have found that VUAA1 is thousands of times more effective than DEET. They have also established that the compound stimulates the OR-Orco complexes of flies, moths and ants. As a result, "VUAA1 opens the door for the development of an entirely new class of agents, which could be used not only to disrupt disease vectors, but also the nuisance insects in your backyard or the agricultural pests in your crops," Jones said. Many questions must be answered before VUAA1 can be considered for commercial applications. Zwiebel's team is currently working with researchers in Vanderbilt's Drug Discovery Program to pare away the parts of VUAA1 that don't contribute to its activity. Once that is done, they will begin testing its toxicity. Vanderbilt University has filed for a patent on this class of compounds and is talking with potential corporate licensees interested in incorporating them into commercial products, with special focus on development of products to reduce the spread of malaria in the developing world. ||||| Write a summary.

answer:Researchers at Vanderbilt University have discovered a new class of insect repellent that is thousands of times more effective than DEET, the active ingredient in most commercial mosquito repellents. The new repellent, named VUAA1, works against all types of insects, including flies, moths, and ants. The compound was found to stimulate odorant receptor (OR)-Orco complexes in insects, overloading their sense of smell and preventing them from finding blood. While it is still too early to determine if VUAA1 can become the basis of a commercial product, it has the potential to be developed into a new class of agents that can be used to control the spread of malaria as well as disrupt other nuisance insects and agricultural pests.

question:You are a helpful assistant, who always provide explanation. Think like you are answering to a five year old. Here is a premise: "A group of people walking by a lake." Here is a hypothesis: "There are people walking in warm weather" .Does the premise tell us whether the hypothesis is true?

answer:No, the premise, or the short description you told me, about "a group of people walking by a lake" doesn't tell us anything about the weather. So, we don't know if the hypothesis, or the guess about "people walking in warm weather" is true or not. It could be any kind of weather - cold, warm, rainy, or even snowy! Until we hear more about the weather in this story, we can't know for sure.

question:You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer. Q: All atoms have equal numbers of what two particles? Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers: Electrons are one of three main types of particles that make up the atom. They are extremely small and have an electric charge of -1. All atoms have the same number of electrons as protons. Choices: - nuclei and neutrons - photons and protons - electrons and neutrons - electrons and protons A: Answer:

answer:The detailed answer to the given question is that all atoms have equal numbers of electrons and protons. This is evident in the provided paragraph, which states that "All atoms have the same number of electrons as protons." Atoms are the building blocks of matter and are composed of three main types of particles: electrons, protons, and neutrons. Electrons are negatively charged particles (-1 electric charge) that orbit the nucleus of the atom. In contrast, protons are positively charged particles (+1 electric charge) and are found within the nucleus, along with neutrons, which have no charge. The number of electrons and protons determines the atomic number and chemical properties of an atom. The atomic number is the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom, and it also equals the number of electrons surrounding the nucleus in a neutral atom. The balance between the negatively charged electrons and positively charged protons is what gives an atom its overall neutral charge. In the context of the provided paragraph and given options, the correct answer is that all atoms have equal numbers of electrons and protons. Other options such as nuclei and neutrons, photons and protons, or electrons and neutrons are not correct in this context. The number of neutrons can vary within the same atomic element, giving rise to isotopes, whereas photons are particles of light and are not components of an atom.

question:You are an AI assistant that follows instruction extremely well. Help as much as you can. I know that the answer to the question "The government in what area had an impact on Thailand?" is in "The Dutch East India Company (1800) and British East India Company (1858) were dissolved by their respective governments, who took over the direct administration of the colonies. Only Thailand was spared the experience of foreign rule, although, Thailand itself was also greatly affected by the power politics of the Western powers. Colonial rule had a profound effect on Southeast Asia. While the colonial powers profited much from the region's vast resources and large market, colonial rule did develop the region to a varying extent.". Can you tell me what it is? A:

answer:The Western powers, specifically the governments of the Dutch East India Company and British East India Company, had an impact on Thailand.

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