@EvanZhao6 what do you mean this is what everyone is doing? if you mean everybody uses crispr, sure. but look at the range of plant species that are currently editable at scale. also, we didnt go into detail, but our method uses 0 tissue culture - which is literally what everyone uses.
Nitroduck designs new colors, flavors, and disease resistance into fruits and veggies. We integrate CRISPR into breeding through pollen, making any crop gene-editable.
Breeding a new specialty crop variety takes 8 - 16 years: breeders hope for random gene combinations and mutations, then spend years picking out the good ones. Meanwhile, consumer tastes, the climate trends, and pathogens change way faster.
Now, accessible genome sequencing and AI can tell breeders what to aim for instead of what to hope for, and CRISPR can turn random mutations into chosen ones. The catch is that CRISPR only works on about 15% of crops. It has to go into a single stem cell that’s then regrown into a whole plant, a process that has to be worked out for each variety, which is cost-prohibitive.
We skip the stem cell and put CRISPR into a pollen grain. The grain pollinates a flower, and out comes an edited seed - seamlessly tapping into how breeders already work.
Matúš, Miro, and I are plant synthetic biologists who made duckweed, the smallest and fastest-growing plant on Earth, genetically engineerable. For doing so we won the Grand Prize at iGEM, the “Olympics of biotech.” During our studies, we engineered 4x more plants than the average plant scientist does in a whole career. Now we’re building Nitroduck, The Crop Design Company, which will make pesticides obsolete by 2042.
@crypto_mystery you tend to be too bullish, we're at the beginning of a bear market right now and it won't be unreasonable to expect new serious highs only after the next halving
@xueshang @anne_steinacker @XHNews read the Rememberance of the Earths' past trilogy by Cixin Liu. It's second part is called The Dark Forest.
Although I'd argue this is not really a situation explainable by the Dark Forest theory, which is after all only fictional.
@CARUS_AR @iconomicom it hasn't been perfect over this crash but this is utter bullshit. don't take this seriously and keep going, we still believe in you