> ( ... ) researchers from the Salk Institute and Kunming University of Science and Technology ( ... )
> In lab tests in culture, the team started with monkey blastocysts. Six days after fertilization they were injected with 25 human extended pluripotent stem (hEPS) cells, which contribute to the tissue as the embryo develops.
> And sure enough, when the researchers examined the batch of embryos 24 hours later, they detected human cells in 132 of them. After 10 days, there were 103 of these chimeric embryos remaining, but by day 19 only three still survived. After that, the embryos were terminated before they developed any further.
Saved you a click.
I'm guessing that the reason why this is called a chimera and not just a blob of cells from two different species is that the number of human cells increased from 25 to 132. But this seems like a very low bar to me...? I'm guessing that if you keep cells which you just extracted from a living organism and keep them in a comfortable bath, division might occur before they quickly die out.
I think the point is that it's not "supernatural". Conceptually you could implement it. The opening and closing involves zero work. In reality the work won't be zero due to friction, but you can in principle at least approximate it really well.
> If the opening works on non-charged particles, it has to have mass and opening and closing it is not possible without work.
You could open the gate by pulling it up, which would require work, but you could recover the entire work by letting it sink down again.
It has been shown that the solution was not the physical work of opening/closing the gate, but the work required in information processing, in particular deleting information.
As far as I know, Germany helped BioNtech with their new plant but even then it took at least half a year to get that going. And that was despite the fact that they could buy and adapt it instead of building it from scratch.
For example, in software, maybe it takes a single developer a year to build a compiler for some advanced language and we can speed it up to 3 months by adding some people. But could we get to a week by adding 12x more? We can‘t and it may be the same with vaccine production.
I was referring more to the discourse, which seems to be about heightening nationalistic sentiments by pitting governments against each other fighting over a small stockpile, rather than highlighting the progress/pitfalls/ongoing support needs of collaborative initiatives to provide scaled solutions.
But maybe this is just a sign that I need to broaden my media inputs, always a good thing to do.
The manufacturing process is a matter of precision engineering. "Remaining stuck" is just... psychologically difficult? How do you compare which one is "more difficult"?
Understanding doesn't come into this. Most people don't understand money any farther than $5 + $5 = $10, and it still works really well. Unlike bitcoin.
Could you clarify how this has anything to do with crypto?
It seems to me that you're acting as a fundraising platform: people give you money, you pass it on to startups, and you guarantee these people that they own some equity in the startup.
The concept of "own some equity" is a legal concept, and this is what you have to nail down. Crypto is irrelevant to this conversation.
Instead of money, just Crypto.
So early Startups/ Projects get funded as fast someone sends'em some coins.
And the investors to be nerds/ crypto investors and can invest them on startups.
So the value is Startups will be really easily funded, fast and by anyone, disregarding the regulations and limits for fundraising with conventional money.
Again, the limitations with funding with money aren't a tech problem. The limitation aren't "regulations", or how "fast" you can send money. They're a legal one. There's literally no obstacle in wiring some startup some money. Where an obstacle DOES exist, is in you being able to credibly defend a claim on that equity in a court.
Imagine the following situation:
You: "I own 10% of the startup"
Judge: "You have no contract that proves that...."
You: "But I sent crypto instead of money!!"
Judge: "Oh in that case...!"
It's like when the word "crypto" is involved, people immediately surrender any critical thinking :-|
> ( ... ) researchers from the Salk Institute and Kunming University of Science and Technology ( ... )
> In lab tests in culture, the team started with monkey blastocysts. Six days after fertilization they were injected with 25 human extended pluripotent stem (hEPS) cells, which contribute to the tissue as the embryo develops.
> And sure enough, when the researchers examined the batch of embryos 24 hours later, they detected human cells in 132 of them. After 10 days, there were 103 of these chimeric embryos remaining, but by day 19 only three still survived. After that, the embryos were terminated before they developed any further.
Saved you a click.
I'm guessing that the reason why this is called a chimera and not just a blob of cells from two different species is that the number of human cells increased from 25 to 132. But this seems like a very low bar to me...? I'm guessing that if you keep cells which you just extracted from a living organism and keep them in a comfortable bath, division might occur before they quickly die out.