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Our August video was a deep goth dive in the philosophy of death, a heavy subject yet a necessary one to understand of the limits of biology. Over the years we've been trying to push what's possible, and sometimes we hit walls. Our call for protocols has been answered, and we're now looking forward to trying these out and resurrect our groceries!
As Justin mentioned in the video, a lot of our projects rely on lab strains of cells and though the microscopy we can gather from these make good footage for our videos, we aspire to more macro projects. For that we need, more cells. More flesh... Growing meat from a 500,000 cell tube is all good, but to seed a bioreactor to grow a chicken nugget in a reasonable time we're going to need a few more of these tubes, or 1 whole chicken. Wouldn't it be neat to always eat a chicken breast grown from the same bird. Fundamentally such technology could be made to work with biopsies rather than necropsies.
You may have heard us speak of biorobots before, and for that we require a variety of specialized tissues, and up until now we've always been limited by how much cells we can use to experiment, which leads to a limited number of trials and reduces our chance of success. So, more cells means more experiments. A rather simplistic equation, but quantity has a quality of its own in both land wars in Asia and biology.
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