The Millennium Problems for Biology

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freebsd_lovefes•44m ago

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

flexagoon•37m ago

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.

thehamkercat•42m ago

> 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

gignico•38m ago

> 06 - Somatic limb regeneration

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

yewenjie•33m ago

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

fragmede•30m ago

On the page, it says

EDISON SCIENTIFIC · FUTUREHOUSE

SAM RODRIQUES · MICHAELA HINKS

https://edisonscientific.com/team

daoboy•20m ago

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.

jodacola•12m ago

Unfamiliar with Levin’s work, but:

There’s also this study [0] I read recently, along a different path of using known growth factors and proteins to kick off regeneration.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72066-8

himinlomax•20m ago

It's missing an obvious one: morphogenesis.

Q6T46nT668w6i3m•18m ago

It’s strange they are all engineering problems.

kolinko•9m ago

What else?

analog31•9m ago

In a sense all experimental science has an element of engineering. For instance the first problem, "the origins of life" is framed to require an experiment to show that any proposed mechanism actually works.

ClaraForm•5m ago

Right? Where's the substrates of consciousness, or the actual solutions for protein/rna folding, or the requirements for evolution?

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