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by akulesa 11y ago
I think Gatsky is referring to the method described here: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/537916/rebooting-the-hu...
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by akulesa 11y ago
>This technique to edit genomes is only a decade old. Actually, this technique is about 3 years old. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6121/819.short
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by akulesa 12y ago
I agree with you that its essential to lower the amount of time and cost that experiments take, and find needles to replace our sledgehammers. I work in technology/methods development, so I'm happy that I should a job for the next
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by akulesa 12y ago
is it not theoretically interesting to understand what the consequences of this "axiom" are? For example, can our current living systems evolve to catalyze any chemical reaction? Are there things in "task space" that bio
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by akulesa 12y ago
Is it not theoretically interesting to understand what the consequences of this "axiom" are? For example, can our current living systems evolve to catalyze any chemical reaction? Are there things in "task space" that bio
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by akulesa 12y ago
Totally agreed - I might steal your last paragraph there! Chemistry is "the details" of biology, but it tells us next to nothing about what we actually care about, probably what you called "self-organizing information propaga
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by akulesa 12y ago
good point - when I was initially writing this post (I'm the original author) I was planning to include a section discussing "the Hilbert questions" in mathematics. These questions not only guided the field, but just the conv
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by akulesa 12y ago
That's an interesting conjecture. Maybe the point isn't to find properties that are completely universal to all life, but more, do we even have a good definition of what life is? Could we always recognize life if we saw it? I thin
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by akulesa 12y ago
Thanks for the comment! Haha, I am definitely aware of Charles Darwin. I agree with you that much theoretical work has been done, and early on biology was largely a theoretical subject (we had an accurate quantitative theory of genetics bef
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by akulesa 12y ago
Original author here - I just discovered this thread. Thanks so much for all the comments! Some context behind why I wrote this post: as a researcher and technologist in biology, I've realized that it's unclear to me what the real