I dream of making a video/lesson one day laying out a bunch of fundamental research findings & having students guess which ones'll be useful. Green fluorescent protein found in jellyfish would be one. This would be another 👇 What's your fav basic science discovery that had unexpected applications? 🧪
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Mark Cuban
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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Cochlear ear implants arose from zoologist + physicist trying to understand how crickets find one another in dark to mate
Do you approve my grant application on f*cking crickets?
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7171402/