FlattopMaker

FlattopMaker t1_jddyeg6 wrote

having to re-read something slowly to check for comprehension has been an issue for me sometimes. I get impatient with it because I need to read large volumes of materials quickly and don't retain information as quickly when I hear it compared to visual processing. I literally see the page (or email or ebook) in my head when I want to recall something.

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FlattopMaker t1_jd3saka wrote

within the next ten years, what is the anticipated wait time to grow a particular vascular tissue using the specific materials your lab makes, from patient consent to implantation?

do you see any cooperative possibilities with research groups that focus on nerve, limb and tissue regeneration?

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FlattopMaker t1_jcoq1kv wrote

has your team come across instances where the organism is learning from or adapting to the engineered/implanted materials to create a novel healing mechanism or an improved healing rate due to artificial intervention?

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FlattopMaker t1_jcopxli wrote

Thank you for this AMA! In addition to calming an inflammatory response, has your team considered design rules to release pharmaceuticals that mimic natural immune responses for localized immune activity?

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FlattopMaker t1_jc9jrr9 wrote

Plants have defense mechanisms in some cases. But it's not always about defending against attack. Some plants deliberately give away their nutrients to other plants of other species to survive in an ecosystem.
Plants reject grafts when the unions don't heal. u/shiningPate provided a short explanation here about why plant grafts only work sometimes, but for different reasons than a human or animal allograft of tissues.

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FlattopMaker t1_jc5ch80 wrote

I find self-help readings are works not originally published with that marketing intent.
Stoics. Scientists' memoirs (self-penned, not ghost-authored). Nautilus magazine. Historical travel diaries. Brainpickings.org (now The Marginalian). Updates from my preferred not-for-profits
All these and more lead me to reflect and are bellows on the fires of my conscious thoughts, activities, decisioning abilities and my fulfillment and happiness.
A rule of thumb (via personal observation) is one should have done a thing ten times before positioning oneself as an expert about it.

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FlattopMaker t1_jaddci0 wrote

People want food for immediate pleasures, not just to meet organism sustainment needs through nutrients. The financials of a vertical farms set up in an existing underutilized skyscraper is not comparable to the financials of a purpose-built facility above ground or underground. But speaking only of underutilized skyscrapers, when 'lack of profitability' is discussed, I am unclear what comparisons are accounted for.

Input costs for conventional farms include drying legumes for a regulated market, regulate crop stress responses, disease resistance, soil amendments and erosion, irrigation infrastructure cost-shares and grants to incentivize producers to undertake sustainable practices, various types of insurance and labour costs. Inflation also does not affect producers equally. Fresh produce growers do not benefit from commodity price increases in the same way when faced with international subsidized competitors.

While not every crop is best for vertical farm growing conditions, for the reasons above when reviewed on a ten-year basis certain types of crops are profitable in underutilized skyscrapers due to controls for magnitude of variability.

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