kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

"One Among Millions: The Chemical Space of Nucleic Acid-Like Molecules"

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jcim.9b00632

There are thousands of other polymers with capabilities of encoding and storing data in a way DNA does.

@selea

I wouldn't dismiss this idea just because MS. They've made great progress in secure coding standards since 90's and Linux kernel on its own has quite a lot of legacy crap code that periodically resurfaces as CVEs.

@FrontGreen

While at the same time being unable to grasp that their opposition to nuclear power is the direct cause for increased reliance on fossil gas...

"Wildlife Trade and the Emergence of Infectious Diseases" (2007)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10393-006-0076-y

(no paywall)

@elbeladi

Hi Ahmed, welcome to Fediverse! You will people from the whole world here :)

@opensoftly @allentishare@mastodon.social

@maricn

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@liw

@falgn0n

Majority of mission-critical GE crops today - like Bt binjal or golden rice or submersible rice - are in public domain and Monsanto patents expired back in 2000s.

Greenpeace is opposing to GE no matter what, quoting some esoteric nonsense about "natural purity", like majority of edible plants today were not already genetically engineered or transgenic.

How to trigger anti-vaxxers and genetic engineering haters at once? 😂 #COVID19

"Medicago doesn’t work with a live virus. Instead, it uses plants, a relatively new approach that has seen much advancement in the past decade. It inserts a genetic sequence into agrobacterium, a soil bacteria, which is taken up by plants — in this case, a close cousin to tobacco. The plant begins to produce the protein that can then be used as a vaccine."

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/03/breaking-weve-got-vaccine-says-pentagon-funded-company/163739/

@wbtd One can grab pretty much everything easily from https://libgen.is/ these days :)

@wbtd

Happy to learn more about this - who should be learning from?

@wbtd

The one between 19-20th century seems to be only discussed in Polish-language sources.

During WW2 - best source is probably Jan Karski "Story of a secret state" (widely available in paper and e-book)

And the one in communist Poland: "The flying university in Poland, 1978-1980", H Buczynska-Garewicz - Harvard Educational Review, 1985 and "The Flying University" C Pszenicki - Index on Censorship, 1979

@wbtd

So it seems like this competition and ambition thing seems to be an intrinsic feature of homo sapiens character and I don't think there's any culture in the world that successfully curbed this trait *and* at the same time delivered some great discoveries.