# life: a normal (fuzzy, bizarre) Nature jumping, the little carrier snake that can bite a world ...

<<  Reports indicate that snakes were sold in the local seafood market in Wuhan, raising the possibility that the 2019-nCoV might have jumped from the host species - bats - to snakes and then to humans at the beginning of this coronavirus outbreak. However, how the virus could adapt to both the cold-blooded and warm-blooded hosts remains a mystery. >>

Haitao Guo, Guangxiang “George” Luo, Shou-Jiang Gao. Snakes could be the original source of the new coronavirus outbreak in China. Jan 22, 2020.

https://theconversation.com/snakes-could-be-the-original-source-of-the-new-coronavirus-outbreak-in-china-130364

Wei Ji, Wei Wang, et al. Homologous recombination within the spike glycoprotein of the newly identified coronavirus may boost cross‐species transmission from snake to human. Journal of Medical Virology. doi: 10.1002/jmv.25682. Jan 22, 2020.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jmv.25682

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here a Brazilian 'relative' of the Chinese snake ...

# life: squeezing jaraca' (Bothrops jararaca). FonT. Dec 24, 2019. 

https://twitter.com/flashontrack/status/1209527656091402243

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2019/12/life-squeezing-jaraca-bothrops-jararaca.html

# gst: ab.normal (fuzzy, bizarre) Nature; apparently, ancient bacterial parasites could have used CRISPR to self-defense and 'interference' for Ma ...

<< In recent years, the development of CRISPR technologies and gene-editing scissors in particular have taken the world by storm. Indeed, scientists have learned how to harness these clever natural systems in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, among other areas. >>

<< New research (..) shows that we are not the first to find a way to exploit the benefits of the CRISPR technique. Apparently, primitive bacterial parasites have been doing so for millions of years. >>

<< Until recently, CRISPR-Cas was believed to be a defense system used by bacteria to protect themselves against invading parasites such as viruses, much like our very own immune system protects us. However, it appears that CRISPR is a tool that can be used for different purposes by diverse biological entities, (..) Here we found evidence that certain plasmids use type IV CRISPR-Cas systems to fight other plasmids competing over the same bacterial host. >> Rafael Pinilla-Redondo.

Humans are not the first to repurpose CRISPR. University of Copenhagen. Mar 24, 2020.

https://phys.org/news/2020-03-humans-repurpose-crispr.html

Rafael Pinilla-Redondo, David Mayo-Muñoz, et al. Type IV CRISPR–Cas systems are highly diverse and involved in competition between plasmids.  Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 48, Issue 4, Pages 2000–12. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkz1197. Dec 27, 2019.

https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/48/4/2000/5687823

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keyword 'CRISPR' (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat) in PubMed:

 "CRISPR"[all] AND (Review[ptyp]) AND ("last 3 years"[PDat])

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

keyword 'CRISPR' in FonT:

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=crispr

keyword 'interferenza' | 'interferente' in Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry):

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=interferenza

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=interferente

# ai.bot: a mechanism of analogy could be the master key to achieving an abstract artificial intelligence

<< It’s understanding the essence of a situation by mapping it to another situation that is already understood, (..) If you tell me a story and I say, ‘Oh, the same thing happened to me,’ literally the same thing did not happen to me that happened to you, but I can make a mapping that makes it seem very analogous. It’s something that we humans do all the time without even realizing we’re doing it. We’re swimming in this sea of analogies constantly. >> Melanie Mitchell.

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John Pavlus. The Computer Scientist Training AI to Think With Analogies. QuantaMag. Jul 14, 2021.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/melanie-mitchell-trains-ai-to-think-with-analogies-20210714/

https://twitter.com/QuantaMagazine/status/1416798420669509635

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here a fuzzy example:  "qui non e' impossibile immaginare ..." (here it is not impossible to imagine ... )

in: Notes. Dec 31, 2015 (quasi-stochastic poetry)

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2015/12/rmx-s-gst-anomalous-formation-of.html

keyword 'gst' (general system theory) in FonT 

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=gst

keyword 'organoids' in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=organoids

keyword 'ai' | 'bot' in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=ai

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=bot

keyword 'ia' | 'ai' | 'robota' in Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry)

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=ia

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=ai

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=robota

# gst: the generation of 'fuzzy' signals for fine skeletal muscle control

<< Minute differences in individual muscle cell contractions allow the entire muscle to flex with greater control and accuracy. Long dismissed as "noise" or error, experts now suspect that biological systems may have evolved to include unavoidable variation as a form of information in their communication channels. >>

Different responses in individual cells give muscles more control. University of Tokyo. Sep 01, 2020. 

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-responses-individual-cells-muscles.html   

Takumi Wada, Ken-ichi Hironaka, et al.  Single-Cell Information Analysis Reveals That Skeletal Muscles Incorporate Cell-to-Cell Variability as Information Not Noise.  Cell Rep. Vol 32, Issue 9, 108051.  doi: 10.1016/ j.celrep.2020.108051. Sep 01, 2020. 

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(20)31036-6

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J. J. Collins and C. J. De Luca. Random Walking during Quiet Standing. Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 764 – Aug 1, 1994.

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.764