8 comments

  • nomel 8 minutes ago
    > This incredible new result

    Only if you've never talked to anyone remotely involved with propagating coral, including those in the saltwater fish-tank community!

  • kylehotchkiss 0 minutes ago
    My first thought when reading the headline... horizontal gene transfer?
  • fosterfriends 1 hour ago
    Some good news :) anything to bring back coral reefs
  • Okkef 1 hour ago
    Only if they are clones - genetically identical. So not much use in practice, unfortunately.
    • smallerize 47 minutes ago
      I think the article says they just haven't tested other cases. I wouldn't expect the symbiotic microalgae to be that picky.

      Edit - The article makes Okkef's point, I just missed it.

      • ceejayoz 27 minutes ago
        The article says otherwise.

        > Fragments from different species and even different animals of the same species did not fuse together, and so did not nurse the bleached piece back to health.

    • kulahan 36 minutes ago
      Sounds like a solution is still well within our reach. Normally I wouldn’t suggest something as extreme as using cloning techniques to restore wild creatures, but of course it was extreme actions that got us here in the first place, so I think this balances it out.
      • deadbabe 26 minutes ago
        We don’t use cloning enough IMO.
        • linuskendall 5 minutes ago
          We use cloning plenty - most fruits we eat are clones, and it has some drawbacks (see Cavendish bananas).
    • idontwantthis 58 minutes ago
      We could create a bank of coral clones tagged to each individual location.
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  • asjkff 56 minutes ago
    Could this also, have anything to do with, Nikola Tesla's resonance theory on dark matter and consciousness, in play in living matter?

    More intelligent individuals should look more into this field.

    • aappleby 26 minutes ago
      No. Tesla's resonance theory has nothing to do with dark matter, consciousness, or living matter.
    • tcdent 52 minutes ago
      I'm all about the concepts you're presenting, but care to elaborate on how you think the corals relate?
      • asjkff 44 minutes ago
        Disclaimer: I am still finding my way in life, so take this theory with a grain of salt.

        New age movement, claim everything on earth is actually a hologram of the universe, experiencing itself.

        So perhaps, just being in close proximity with another coral, the hologram frequency was now more in tuned.

        • rbn3 3 minutes ago
          Since you mentioned you’re still finding your way in life: please be aware that the appeal of a lot of new age and „woo“ is that the act of noticing a pattern in nature, that feeling of „aaah NOW it makes sense“ is inherently pleasant and can become something you chase like a drug. These frameworks or schools of thought can provide a steady source of that feeling without necessarily being tethered to reality at all. Kind of like acid - very fun at times but catastrophic if you make it a core part of your identity.
        • hmokiguess 41 minutes ago
          Why would the frequency of the healthy one win over the frequency of the non-healthy one though? I assume both would have their own frequencies, are you implying there's an order or tendency across frequencies?
          • asjkff 35 minutes ago
            Same reason, stem cells repair damage body cells, I guess.

            I am just glad coral can repair themselves.

            Thumbs up to the researcher.

            • hmokiguess 26 minutes ago
              I am just trying to understand your ideas and riff on them

              Cells are complex organisms and contain programming in their nature so we can more easily trace and understand its reasons

              A frequency is something a lot more raw than a cell

              • asjkff 15 minutes ago
                I will repeat this for the last time. I am not an expert in the field.

                "programming in their nature" means they have a range of frequency, like a radio? perharps.

                Nevertheless, thumbs up to the researcher. Positive vibes.

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