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  • Great comment!

    I’m optimistic in the space of biology and biotechnology though. People are doing actual SciFi shit right now. We’ve got CAR-T tech, CRISPR that’s trivial to deploy, monoclonal antibodies, mRNA tech, microbiome science, DNA sequencing that is mind-blowingly good, large scale computational analysis and machine learning that’s decoding the noise of our genomes, rapid detection of pathogens with a MALDI-TOF, to just name a few.

    It’s an insane time in biology right now, and it’s the current frontier along with computer science/ML.


  • Na this is actual intrusive thoughts from someone who has spent a considerable amount of time in a lab. It’s legit. I felt seen reading this comic. The plastic waste makes me shudder. Also experiments actually just fail sometimes, not even giving a positive or negative result. The method went wrong or a reagent was cooked.










  • Maybe…but I doubt many of these phylogenies use DNA, and if so, likely only a single or few genes. Nowhere near enough resolution to accurately determine genetic relatedness. Woody plants may actually be more related than we think.

    These sorts of phylogenies tend to use morphological characteristics which is an unreliable measure of genetic relatedness.

    I will stand corrected if wrong though