Hirom
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- Comment on New CRISPR Technique Selectively Shreds Cancer Cells, Including “Undruggable” Cancers 1 week ago:
This is an in-vitro experiment.
- Comment on Researchers turn sunlight and CO2 into living biomass 3 weeks ago:
Why produce ethanol?
Producing and burning ethanol in internal combustion engines is more polluting, less efficient than using electric vehicles. So this can’t be it.
Producing and burning ethanol for heat is more polluting, less efficient than heat pumps or solar thermal energy. So that’s not it either.
The article mention chemical industry and:
[..] building blocks for products ranging from fertilizers to plastics
This leaves fertilizers and plastics. So this would have to compete with other ways to produce fertilizers, plastic and plastic alternatives (cardboard packaging, wood, glass…)
- Comment on Something in Python Blood Could Be The Future of Weight Loss 2 months ago:
We’ve basically discovered an appetite suppressant that works in mice without some of the side-effects that GLP-1 drugs have
The article mention nothing on safety or efficacy in humans, nor in other primates.
They are probably trying to get attention from companies to get funding for me clinical trials. But it seems early for the general public to pay attention given trials low success rates