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RelentlessRecusant
Halo Fan Fiction Wikia, Co-Founder and Bureaucrat and Halopedia, Bureaucrat
Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Harvard University, Department of Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology
RelentlessRecusant was the User of the Week from November 5, 2006 to November 12, 2006.
RelentlessRecusant's article Advanced IMFW System voted joint co-Best Weapon, Second Wiki Awards.

Hey! I'm RelentlessRecusant. I am an undergraduate in the United States, and was formerly a research student at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and the Department of Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology, Harvard University.

My research is focused on induced pluripotent stem cells and chemical biology. Human embryonic stem cells are poised to treat or cure a plethora of debilitating human diseases, but their usage is constrained by the fact that they are derived from the termination of human embryos — this therefore leads to ethical and moral circumlocutions.

To bypass this, our research has identified chemical compounds that can induce pluripotency in differentiated cells, therefore allowing for the derivation of pluripotent stem cells (embryonic stem cells) from skin. This will allow for the ethical generation of embryonic stem cells for therapeutic purposes, and is anticipated to finally allow for the usage of embryonic stem cells to treat and cure human disease and alleviate human suffering.

Additionally, I am the co-founder and bureaucrat of Halo Fan Fiction Wikia and am a bureaucrat on Halopedia, amongst a number of other Wikia wikis that I administrate :)

My current fiction project is the Galactic Empire Special Operations Command. I am highly interested in the description of special operations forces in fictional universes, such as Halo and Star Wars.

Of particular note, I enjoy, in my writing and articles, to make references to esoteric points in biology. Such parallels can be found in some of my articles, including Shibire (after the Shibire gene)[1][2], Joint Special Operations Task Force 452 (after the chemical compound E-616452)[3], General Order 452: Preemptive Measures Against Terrorism and Insurgency[3], and Special Operations Task Force 184 (after the chemical compound JZL184)[4].

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  1. ↑ Chen et. al (1991). Multiple forms of dynamin are encoded by shibire, a Drosophila gene involved in endocytosis. Nature (351): 583—586.
  2. ↑ van der Bliek and Meyerowitz (1991). Dynamin-like protein encoded by the Drosophila shibire gene associated with vesicular traffic. Nature (351): 411—414.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ichida et. al (2009). "A Small-Molecule Inhibitor of Tgf-β Signaling Replaces Sox2 in Reprogramming by Inducing Nanog" Cell Stem Cell (5): 1—13.
  4. ↑ Long et. al (2009). Selective blockade of 2-arachidonoylglycerol hydrolysis produces cannabinoid behavioral effects. Nature Chemical Biology (5): 37-44.

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