Me acabo de quedar loco. Yo tengo a dos maletas y una bicicleta

- The editor of Science stated that there is no proof the authors intentionally manipulated data.
- The retraction was based on public controversy, inconsistent data, and the inability to replicate the results.
- Science changed his own rules for making the retraction possible.

After all we are doing this already with plants, modifying them, adding adaptations for surviving to climate change or pests. This adaptations in animals could be seen as something equivalent.
A part from a good marketing strategy for the company with much bigger goals.

In this way they express similar characteristics although the underlying genes are totally different.
In this case they mutated 10 genes related with their fur and fat metabolism using CRISPR. So “nothing new” although very interesting to see possible.

While you might think from reading the titles and looking at the pics that they added the genes of the woolly mammoth they didn’t. That would probably kill the embryos already.
What they did was to mutate mice genes.

Roche entered the NGS market. This is the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

They literally generate a new strand of DNA that they call “Xpandomer” that has more space between the nucleotides so can be read with more accuracy through Nanopore. For this they designed new nucleotides and enzymatic reactions that work together.

So today I see more potential here. Independent from an Instagram account, potentially interoperable, more open and less server-niche. Having that said for the moment I will not give up on X. We can’t go jumping from place to place escaping from ourselves.

The fact that publishers are leaving and advertisers too is a big problem for him though. He would have to make a very significant better product for people to gain trust back.

X is dependent on a central server, loosing day after day more trust. However, it has a looot of content from many years, people will keep publishing there. And the guy in charge can also manage things very well honestly. We can’t underestimate the potential it can have for regenerating.

This is less decentralised leaving the power potentially to less people, the ones owning the services. They should still moderate the content and take care of maintaining the service. Similar to what we have now but with more interoperability and potentially more choice of apps to consume content.

But, there is the alternative of just having a protocol that allows to the different social media platforms to interact with each other (like if you could see your tweets on Instagram). This is the AT protocol of BlueSky. Now is just this app but can be potentially connected to other services.