Observed arrival · 2026-09-21
Millennium Problems in Biology
A public ballot asks people to choose seven major unsolved challenges in biology and propose problems of their own.
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- Each proposal must include a title, one-sentence problem, and a way to validate its solution.
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The initiative borrows the structure of the mathematical Millennium Prize Problems but replaces a fixed prize list with a community selection process. Its criteria ask whether a challenge has objective solution criteria, demands a genuine advance, and could unlock experiments, predictions, or interventions. Voter selections remain private until the announced results, while new proposals pass through review before appearing publicly.
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