Presenting Pleistocene Park at SynBioBeta 2013, a fun coda of CRISPR codons

9 responses to “Presenting Pleistocene Park at SynBioBeta 2013, a fun coda of CRISPR codons”

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   jurvetson

   Nov 18, 2013 at 6:16 pm

   The CRISPR DNA editing technique was quite popular in the presentations this year, and is the latest technique proposed to more easily compile a new mammoth genome from the various fragments collected from frozen samples:

   

   And from my TED dinner with Stewart Brand:

   “Biotech is about to liberate conservation.”

   Michael McGrew, a scientist at the Roslin Institute in Scotland has proven a key component of the approach. He takes falcon skin cells, induces them into pluripotent stem cells and inserts them into the germplasm of a chicken.

   "Mike’s doing miracles with birds… That chicken will have the gonads of a falcon. You get a male and female chicken, and out of them come falcons. Real falcons out of slightly doctored chickens.”
   
   
   

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   jurvetson

   Nov 18, 2013 at 6:32 pm

   Gen9 was a sponsor of the conference, and I showed a slide on their gene printer as well:

   

   

   The effect? I updated the Carlson Curve with the latest estimates from some startups we know:
   

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   scleroplex

   Nov 19, 2013 at 1:32 am

   the 2 birds concerned would be most confused……

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   scleroplex

   Nov 20, 2013 at 8:20 pm

   ow!!!! 🙂

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   jurvetson

   Nov 24, 2013 at 10:03 pm

   flickr’s new format had removed all photos that I have embedded in comments. What a disaster. Let me see if I can still insert them:

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   jurvetson

   Nov 24, 2013 at 10:04 pm

   nope… didn’t work. I can’t include HTML any more. sigh.

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   scleroplex

   Nov 25, 2013 at 1:04 am

   i still see the ones from 6 days ago but not the new one.

   time for you to really COMPLAIN to marissa again please.

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   jurvetson

   Nov 25, 2013 at 1:50 pm

   how do you see them? I see them on my activity view, but not on the new format photo pages. The comments on the right are missing them. Is there a setting or special URL to view th pages with HTML enabled in comments?

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   scleroplex

   Nov 25, 2013 at 2:37 pm

   the one from after my ow!! comment shows up as a grey box with arrow but when i click the image appears in situ.
   the picture between ‘include’ and ‘HTML’ above is a grey box too but when i click on it only a question mark appears.

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