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Gordon_Freeman, to science in 6x Tougher Than Kevlar: Spider Silk Is Spun by Genetically Modified Silkworms for the First Time
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What happened to the goat that was genetically modified to produce spider silk more than a decade ago?

readbeanicecream,
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@Gordon_Freeman As of 2019:

Well, all went a bit quiet. Partly because the Montreal-based company leading the way, Nexia Biotechnologies, a company spun out of McGill University, swiftly went bust and sold its two GM goats — Sugar and Spice — to the Canada Agriculture Museum in Ottawa, which in 2013 removed its genetically-engineered goats from display amid public pressure.

Quiet momentum continues, however, under Dr Randy Lewis of Utah State University and his team. Though he is unaware of the whereabouts of Sugar and Spice today, his lab looks after over twenty goats capable of producing silky milk.

Source: https://agfundernews.com/what-happened-to-those-gm-spider-goats-with-the-silky-milk

AmidFuror,

I haven't heard this one. Did it walk into a bar?

HeartyBeast, to science in CDC Warns of Cow-to-Human Transmission of H5N1 Bird Flu in Texas

Posted because it’s one of the most informative -accessible, but rigorous articles I’ve read on H5N1

iquanyin, to news in “They Were Everywhere” – Exploding Monkey and Pig Populations Pose Human Disease Risk
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@readbeanicecream exploding human population a threat to all the mammals, reptiles, birds, fish, oceans, glaciers, crops, forests, and atmosphere on the planet. also to ourselves.

rhythmisaprancer, to science in CDC Warns of Cow-to-Human Transmission of H5N1 Bird Flu in Texas
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This isn't really exciting to read. I really appreciate the article handling this as strict information, it doesn't seem to have any loafed terms or forecasting in it. As you say, it is very accessible and probably the best way to digest this!

Thanks for sharing it. I am curious to see how this manifests.

Encromion, to science in Unlocking the Brain’s Secrets: Where Does Conscious Experience Truly Reside?

Relatedly, where are memories stored? How can we have flashes of memory from decades ago? Why can we not access certain memories until something traumatic or triggering happens and then it comes flooding back? Why do smells trigger memory?

There’s…a lot…we don’t know about the brain, wow.

eighthourlunch,
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Long term memories are stored in the hypothalamus as you sleep at night.

Smells are tied to more primitive structures in in the brain. I'm a little rusty on why it makes the memories so strong, but there's quite a bit of research out on that one.

Trauma is also encoded differently, but there's a lot of garbage research that muddies the waters on that particular subject.

TheOneCurly, to science in New Power Generator Produces Continuous Electricity From Natural Atmospheric Humidity
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I’m not sure I understand, are they stealing the latent vaporization energy by forcing the water vapor to condense?

They form a distribution gradient of water which is the structural basis of power generation.

This is either a nonsense sentence or I’m too much of a layperson to understand how any of these words describe the mechanism.

wildncrazyguy,

Sounds to me like it's the opposite of how an LED works. Instead of creating a small gap that discharges a photon, the material creates a small gap that collects an ion. The ion is then run downstream to the thing that is being powered, making the gap available for another ion.

In other words, it kinda works the same as clouds do to create lightening, the material just facilitates this in a way that can be reliably consumed and at a much, much lower energy scale.

Haus, to science in Harnessing All-Solar Energy: Nanocrystal Breakthrough Transforms Infrared Light Conversion
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Sunlight is an inexhaustible source of energy

Dear Hokkaido University, could you please not do that?

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