Gabriel is actually the perfect super-cute non-binary science-communicator (laden with tales of bone-chilling dystopic horror) for Halloween.

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Laboratory created Chimeric organoids/lifeforms.

#GabrielTorch #BearBaitOfficial #Organoids #Chimeras #Science

https://youtu.be/LqzJQ8aDZM4

Bioethics of Neural Chimeras and Biohybrid Machines

YouTube

A new open access paper from Katrien Devolder, Josh Rottman, Qinyu Xiao, Guy Kahane, Lucius Caviola, Lauren Yip & Nadira S. Faber explores public views on the creation and treatment of human-animal chimeras.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-024-10413-4

#ethics #chimeras #publicscience

Improving transformation frequency in maize

Maize is one of the classical model organisms for genetic research. However, the low transformation frequency remains an important bottleneck for many gene-editing applications.

Phys.org

#IVF #chimeras #wacky
Republican Blocks IVF Bill Because It Could Lead to 'Human-Animal Chimeras'

https://www.newsweek.com/ivf-bill-blocked-

#IVF #chimeras #wacky
Republican Blocks IVF Bill Because It Could Lead to 'Human-Animal Chimeras'

https://www.newsweek.com/ivf-bill-blocked-cindy-hyde-smith-1874559

Republican Blocks IVF Bill Because It Could Lead to 'Human-Animal Chimeras'

Senator Cindy-Hyde-Smith said that the federal bill designed to protect access to IVF was a "vast overreach."

Newsweek

Good morning 🎨 #Creatives, 🌌 #Cosmonauts, 🖥️ #Cyberpunks, 🎵 #Composers, 🎬 #Cinephiles, 👾 #Coders, 🦖 #Carnivores, 🧙‍♂️ #Conjurers and 🐉 #Chimeras!

If you see this, which seems unlikely because I am yet to understand how this place works, reply to this with the emoji that yo feeling! I'm gonna go with 🐉 Chimera, for I AM THE SUM OF DISPARATE PARTS.

"Here we use a range of reporter proteins to demonstrate that their #chimeras with duplicated #receptor domains produce YES gate protein switches with large (up to 9,000-fold) dynamic ranges and fast (minutes) response rates. In such switches, the #epistatic interactions between largely independent synthetic #allosteric sites result in an OFF state with minimal background noise."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-023-01450-y

Development of epistatic YES and AND protein logic gates and their assembly into signalling cascades - Nature Nanotechnology

Protein-based nanobiosensors with two epistatically interacting synthetic allosteric regulatory systems result in YES gate protein switches with large dynamic ranges and fast response times. These biosensors enable construction of rapid diagnostic tests compatible with clinical chemistry analysers.

Nature

Asking “should we de-bias” or “how do we de-bias” presumes that the problem is bias: that AI is needed in a domain, but simply needs some technical tweaks.

#reading #chimeras, Bias

Digitalization, moreover, aggravated the positions of users: on the one hand, algorithmic “black box” made users powerless in terms of technical knowledge; on the other hand, every new (kind of) user became a sort of quality assurance acting secretly both for developers and users themselves.

#reading #chimeras, Secret Users

I already talked a few weeks ago about a #startup that wanted to predict #autism through #voice (all based on very shaky scientific publications)

https://dair-community.social/@victorvicpal/109920288465424750

Well, yesterday they went a step further in European #DataColonialism and signed an agreement with the autism society of #Peru.

These agreements are disgusting. Not only is it about getting data in a simpler way than in Europe, but it is also done with a fictitious scientific background.

Please stop selling #AI #chimeras

Víctor Vicente-Palacios (@[email protected])

Today I read a piece of news that shocked me: "Zoundream: This AI baby cry 'translator' may next help detect autism and other health disorders" I wanted to investigate a little more because I thought it was what I call #AI #homeopathy https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/01/07/new-app-seeks-to-decipher-what-babies-want-when-they-cry little🧵 ⏬

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