A handful of people with HIV have been cured after receiving HIV-resistant stem cells – but a man who received non-resistant stem cells is also now HIV-free
Yes. Most important thing, biggest reason to not ruin natural world. Lots of ‘how the fuck did that happen’ and ‘wait, you can do that?’ To be found in them there hills rain forests/oceans/hills
Biomimicry is a seriously fascinating field of study. It’s basically going “we have a problem with X. We might have solutions for X, but they are expensive and/or very impractical for Y and Z applications, where we now need them.”
And then they go out into the world and look for ways nature has already overcome the exact same problem, and figure out ways to mimic the solution. There are typically multiple avenues to explore, and the solutions are often quite simple compared to whatever over-engineered nonsense we come up with on our own.
Looking at stuff around us is really the best path forward for a lot of what we want to accomplish.
absolutely. my entire field exists because someone asked “how the fuck is there life on the edge of a hydrothermal vent at the bottom of the goddamn ocean?”
Scientific discovery is almost never “EUREKA!”, is almost always “That’s funny…”
Yes. Most important thing, biggest reason to not ruin natural world. Lots of ‘how the fuck did that happen’ and ‘wait, you can do that?’ To be found in them there
hillsrain forests/oceans/hillsBiomimicry is a seriously fascinating field of study. It’s basically going “we have a problem with X. We might have solutions for X, but they are expensive and/or very impractical for Y and Z applications, where we now need them.”
And then they go out into the world and look for ways nature has already overcome the exact same problem, and figure out ways to mimic the solution. There are typically multiple avenues to explore, and the solutions are often quite simple compared to whatever over-engineered nonsense we come up with on our own.
Looking at stuff around us is really the best path forward for a lot of what we want to accomplish.
absolutely. my entire field exists because someone asked “how the fuck is there life on the edge of a hydrothermal vent at the bottom of the goddamn ocean?”