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[Max™]

...a lot can happen in two minutes before you edit that in man, god what a mess.

[forsaken1111]

Too late. The feast of ages has begun.

[TempAcc]

Wait, you mean it doesn't work?
_darn

[Radio Controlled]

http://futurism.com/meet-the-farm-that-grows-plants-with-zero-sunlight-soil-pesticides-or-water/

[Sheb]

http://futurism.com/meet-the-farm-that-grows-plants-with-zero-sunlight-soil-pesticides-or-water/

That is a lot of buzzwords for not much.

[hops]

I'd respect them more if their vegetables were given gluten-free water.

[forsaken1111]

I'd respect them more if their vegetables were given gluten-free water.

I've been raising my pet lettuce on a paleo all-meat diet and its doing well. Turning a nice healthy brown/black

[Radio Controlled]

http://futurism.com/meet-the-farm-that-grows-plants-with-zero-sunlight-soil-pesticides-or-water/

That is a lot of buzzwords for not much.

The title might be a little click-baity, but more resource-efficient farming is always a good thing (though the scalability of such a system remains to be seen).

[ChairmanPoo]

Its not like Macchiarini was the one and only person in the bio-engineering trade. I think the scandal is being given more importance and attention because apparently it involved outright fraud (which isnt a world first either), because of the prestige of the involved institution, and because of the importance of some people who have fallen in the fallout.

@re: parabiosis: The effect has been known for a while, and been shown to appear in several tissues. IIRC there was even a trial in humans scheudled...

[TempAcc]

Also not very cost effective as of yet. Pretty cool, but the costs need to go down for it to be preferrable over soil farming, plus using artificial light seems like a waste, you could totally pull off aeroponics using natural sunlight, and then just turn on the lights during the night.

[scrdest]

Its not like Macchiarini was the one and only person in the bio-engineering trade. I think the scandal is being given more importance and attention because apparently it involved outright fraud (which isnt a world first either), because of the prestige of the involved institution, and because of the importance of some people who have fallen in the fallout.

@re: parabiosis: The effect has been known for a while, and been shown to appear in several tissues. IIRC there was even a trial in humans scheudled...

Ninja'd by resident bloodologician re: parabiosis. It's pretty cool stuff though. Interesting that it seems to imply a failure of repair being more important than the damage leading to amyloid formation itself - the paper reports a full recovery in some areas, so if you're feeling forgetful, start filing these teeth...

Macchiarini's case reminds me a lot of the scandals around Charles Vacanti with stem cells. Matter of fact, they might be cousins by way of the bone marrow stem cell thing but I'd have to check. I suppose the lesson here is that if you see a claim that a brilliant researcher finds a way of easily fixing something with sexy fashionable tech, assume it'll end in at least one tragic death of a largely innocent third party.

[Sheb]

http://futurism.com/meet-the-farm-that-grows-plants-with-zero-sunlight-soil-pesticides-or-water/

That is a lot of buzzwords for not much.

The title might be a little click-baity, but more resource-efficient farming is always a good thing (though the scalability of such a system remains to be seen).

We dont know how efficient they are (they dont tell us what they compare it too), its not clear how much energy they need, and apart from their fancy buzzwordy algorithm, they dont seem to offer anything more than standard hydrponic. They also seems to have issue breaking even even with leafy greens, meaning they might be less efficient than other farms like the one in london.

[forsaken1111]

related to the earlier talk about artificial organs

http://ir.organovo.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=254194&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2200078

[Reelya]

You guys will probably like this one. MIT has invented a camera that can read closed books. Sort of like MRI scanning but for documents. The main use is for archeological documents that are too fragile to open.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/09/12/2356233/mit-invented-a-camera-that-can-read-closed-books

[BorkBorkGoesTheCode]

Could it be used to un        "special" documents?