They central probelm here there is no way to satisfy everyone's needs in the POS terminal. The bartender will have differnet needs than the hostess, waiter, manager, or kitchen staff. It would be nearly impossible for everyone to agree.
Simplicity is the key and I found this restaurants solution to be extremely intuitive. More steps to sit a table simply because the technology is there to acquire more data points, is not always the correct solution.
An interesting debate that I'm not sure there is a "correct" answer for, but if a brilliant mind such as the man discussed here wants to end his life peacefully, after dedicating his life to science, who are we to prevent him?
The problem right now is that "has only been witnessed in vitro – that is, under artificial conditions in the laboratory, and not inside cells." which means it may not even exist in our bodies.
But this is literally the entire point of the this paper. The sentence you just pasted was the the previous state of the art, this paper makes the point that they have now imaged them in cells (using i-motif specific antibodies).
'in vitro' can mean 'in cells in a dish'. I think the previous state of the art was 'unsure if these exist in living cells' (could be wrong, but id be surprised if they did this exp in vivo). edit based on your comment above you probably have the paper and are in a better position to comment on this. I defer to op.
Yeah agreed (what in vitro means to different people is a whole other conversation :-P), but that sentence makes it pretty clear that by in vitro they mean not in cells (because it says, "and not inside cells"). Agreed, of course, that this doesn't necessarily mean it happens in cells in an organism (though in the authors' defense they do examine three different cell lines).
Edit: For clarity - all the in cell work is cultured cell lines and not cells taken from an animal model or in situ imaging.
Literally my only point was that 'this might not matter for biology because we've not even seen it in cells' is no longer true. It still might not matter for biology though!
