Mirror Bacteria Research Poses Significant Risks, Dozens of Scientists Warn
John Glassthe-scientist.com
Mirror Bacteria Research Poses Significant Risks, Dozens of Scientists Warn
Without diversity, replication only works if both the original and the copying mechanism are perfect. Otherwise errors build upon themselves.
Shane Parrish • The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
The problem is that no lab until now has been capable of doing it.
Pier Luigi Luisi • The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology
To be fair, I don’t think they can “clean up their community”, given that their preferred area of HBD research can only pretty much only have negative outcomes for society as a whole.
I mean “means of manufacturing and distributing poison gas in urban spaces” might be an area of research, but I’m going guess that anyone who spends their time deeply ... See more
I mean “means of manufacturing and distributing poison gas in urban spaces” might be an area of research, but I’m going guess that anyone who spends their time deeply ... See more
TracingWoodgrains • Reliable Sources: How Wikipedia Admin David Gerard Launders His Grudges Into the Public Record
Hypermutation has an obvious risk: along with a beneficial mutation, it can also cause many harmful ones. Susan Rosenberg of Baylor College of Medicine and her colleagues argue that E. coli minimizes this risk by spreading it across an entire colony.