Reposted by Angelos Amyntas
1. CRISPR came from basic research on bacteria.
2. Optogenetics started with a discovery in algae.
3. The GFP protein comes from jellyfish.
The biggest breakthroughs all trace to scientists following their curiosity, and this is one huge reason why we must keep funding basic research!
![To begin, distributions are never normal. For some this seems obvious, hardly worth mentioning, but an aphorism given by Cram´er (1946) and attributed to the mathematician Poincar´e remains relevant: “Everyone believes in the [normal] law of errors, the experimenters because they think it is a mathematical theorem, the mathematicians because they think it is an experimental fact.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kwjddjickma3syepdsfufyvi/bafkreifw25h2nnb3ylgdumcsctlyh6wdbxam7ajlnbwnca7hdxef5q6bo4)
