Comment by thehamkercat
10 hours 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
Of course. This is just a list of someone's ideas for equivalently difficult (and transformative) unsolved problems in biology. Many of these would of course have obvious and immediately impactful practical applications, unlike the math problems.
> ... This is just a list of someone's ideas for equivalently difficult (and transformative) unsolved problems in biology. ...
I think GP was saying the proof of the pudding is in the tasting: the longer a problem has provably resisted resolution the more difficult it is considered...
bombastically decorating a problem as equivalently difficult does not make it so.
Well, if LLMs actually turn out to solve some of the Millennium problems, at least some of these biology problems are almost certainly at least as difficult. Certainly solving any of them would be Nobel-worthy if biology nobels existed (and solving some of them would likely easily be worthy of a medicine Nobel). It's not like these are new problems whose difficulty is unknown!
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> 06 - Somatic limb regeneration
At least those things cannot be solved by just burning GPT tokens.
> Demonstrate the ability to cryopreserve and recover live wild-type mice with high viability.
I thought we already managed to successfully cryopreserve and recover small rodents like hamsters in the 50s.
Edit: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryopreservation#History