[HN Gopher] An experiment that turned back biological time
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       An experiment that turned back biological time
        
       Author : jsomers
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2025-04-17 04:13 UTC (18 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (nehalslearnings.substack.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (nehalslearnings.substack.com)
        
       | biomcgary wrote:
       | An excellent description of a recent fundamental discovery. The
       | post might have a bit more jargon than a non-biologist would
       | immediately recognize, but it does convey the complexity and
       | logic of both discovery and validation.
       | 
       | As a computational biologist, I enjoy the parallels between the
       | logic of hypothesis generation and testing in biology and
       | algorithm-development on the CS side. In both areas, asking the
       | right big questions is important. But in other cases, recognizing
       | the importance and application of an otherwise obscure discovery
       | is important, e.g., CRISPR and penicillin or discovery of
       | transformers at Google vs their application at OpenAI.
        
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