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Gabe Mickel's avatar

I'm excited to see this focus on decentralization in synbio. It's clear to see how much open source and decentralized approaches have pushed development forward. I'm excited to see what alternative funding models can be used to keep research findings public, such as the philanthropic funding and research shared by organizations such as the Good Food Institute and the Homeworld Collective.

Still on the note of decentralization, but less on development and more on production, I am excited to see where bio-manufacturing can be decentralized to facilitate production much more co-localized with supply chain and demand.

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Marko's avatar

I very much agree - lots of great philantropic initiatives to back. We'll be covering a few aspects of bio-manufacturing in the future articles, so do subscribe to the newsletter to follow along!

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Bobby's avatar

Does publication need to be blockchain-based, or could we move to more open and accessible repositories for human knowledge? For example, web-based tools like pubpub.org, among others?

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Marko's avatar

Decentralisation doesn't necessarily imply blockchain technology, although it is a big part of it on web3. So to answer your question, not necessarily, blockchain just offers an added 'security' measure for publishing that ensures immutability and with that might make the research more reliable, but that's up to the scientific community to decide. I do like your example though, wasn't aware of it before!

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