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The Millennium Problems for Biology

17 pointsby 1h agomillenniumproblems.bio
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35m agoHN ↗

It's missing some important stuff? Like creating bacteria that can produce fuels or break down plastics.

28m agoHN ↗

Bacteria that break down plastic already exist, both naturally and synthetically. Optimizing those is one of the most popular student projects in my university. Hardly a millennium problem.

33m agoHN ↗

02 - Cryopreservation

Demonstrate the ability to cryopreserve and recover live wild-type mice with high viability.

06 - Somatic limb regeneration

Demonstrate the ability to regenerate lost limbs in adult wild-type mice.

Interesting, but looks like these problems are proposed in September 2026, unlike original 7 Millennium Prize Problems of Maths

29m agoHN ↗

06 - Somatic limb regeneration

At least those things cannot be solved by just burning GPT tokens.

24m agoHN ↗

Who is this by? Who verifies the result? Is there prize money?

12m agoHN ↗

This is all well outside my area of expertise, but my impression is that Michael Levin's work with bioelectricity is on the cusp of #6 Somatic limb regeneration.

SMEs please correct the record if I'm mistaken.

11m agoHN ↗

It's missing an obvious one: morphogenesis.

9m agoHN ↗

It’s strange they are all engineering problems.